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This episode is the second tarot chat in a series with author, tarot reader, and book coach Margaret McNellis. Last week, Margaret shared ways to use tarot cards to help you plot your novel and develop your characters. This week, we discuss ways to use the tarot to break through writing blocks and deepen your…

Tarot cards can be a super fun resource to use as you plot your novels and develop your characters. They have layered meanings, images, and symbolism that can open you up to ideas to help you write your best story. In this episode, I chatted with book coach, tarot reader, and author, Margaret McNellis about…

Reading a great memoir allows us to connect deeply with those who have struggled, who have walked similar journeys to ours. In this conversation with memoirist Uma Girish, we discussed the contract that a writer has with a reader to really dive deep and be honest, her unusual path to a contract with Hay House,…

My guest this week, novelist Sandy Barker, is hilarious, loves to travel, and has a soft spot for a good romance novel. She’s been able to tie all that together into a successful career writing romantic comedies most of which are set in exotic locations. In this episode, Sandy shares how she went from self-publishing…

Editing is a huge piece of the writing process, and it can also feel like one of the most daunting. What kind of editor do you need to hire? What kind of editors and editing are there? How do you work with an editor? How can you find one to work with? We tackle all…

How do you write a book when you’re not a writer? Well, you become one. In this solo episode, I share my thoughts on how one becomes a writer and begins to embrace and act on that identity. See this blog post if you’d prefer to “read” this episode. Here’s what I discuss in this solo episode:…

My guest on this week’s episode, Amy S. Peele, started writing in mid-life after working through The Artist’s Way and discovering that she loves to write. It took a few more years to become an author as she was also working full time in her thirty-five-year career as a nurse in the organ transplant field.…

In this episode, I share my own looking back process as well as a key lesson around expectations and my writing that I’ve learned and how it’s shifted my writing practice this fall and moving forward into 2022. After the past few weeks of looking back at 2021, confirming my own personal findings with a…

Bringing mindfulness to your writing practice helps develop consistency in your practice, and it can also make you a more descriptive writer as you slow down and notice more. We dive into all of this more with today’s guest, author Lissa M. Cowan who writes in a variety of genres and teaches fiction and structural…

Welcome to a fun chat about writing, developing characters, and finding inspiration with women’s fiction author Elizabeth Sumner Wafler. Like many of us, Elizabeth came to writing as a second career and has mined her own life for inspiration for both her plots and her characters. While our intent in this conversation was to focus…