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If you're an aspiring author and want insights into what's involved in launching a book into the world, this is the podcast for you.

Podcast · By Maggie Smith · English · Official site

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12
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Sep 25, 2026
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Jul 9, 2026

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  1. Episode · Sep 25, 2026

    335: Tatiana Goded - Author of A Trip Towards the Sunset (opens the original)

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    This week our podcast guest is Tatiana Goded (A Trip Towards the Sunset, indie published, March 2025). Tatiana's debut follows 3 women facing mid-life challenges and dovetails with her own journey moving from Spain to New Zealand and from a scientific field to being a life coach while also embracing her dream to write. We discuss what's it like to rediscover your passion, how social media can be used to help stave off the loneliness of the solitary writer, and how she had to learn the self-disci

  2. Episode · Sep 17, 2026

    334: Raquel Y. Levitt - Author of The Seer (opens the original)

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    Our podcast guest this week is Raquel Y. Levitt (The Seer, Acorn Publishing, March 2025). We discuss the originals of her debut which started as a single clear image she saw of a woman in a marketplace in the 1800's and why she decided going for her MFA was the next right move for her. Then we move into the tricky challenge of marketing a mixed genre (historical fiction with paranormal elements) from cover design to finding the right audience and the effective use of contests to establish legiti

  3. Episode · Sep 10, 2026

    333: Angelika Morini - Author of Do You See Me Now? (opens the original)

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    This week our podcast guest is Angelika Morini (Do You See Me Now?, indie published, February 2025). Angelika, who lives and writes from Germany, discusses the challenges of querying publishing professionals from overseas. We delve into how a short story kept growing until she realized she was writing a book, how her plot (two sisters at a retreat to study The Hero's Journey) provided a structure for her book as well, and how it wasn't until she'd published her debut that she realized book marke

  4. Episode · Sep 3, 2026

    332: Jen Sinclair - Author of There's Always a Price (opens the original)

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    Our podcast guest this week is Jen Sinclair (There's Always A Price, indie-published, September 2024). We talk about her early love of writing (her first book, a police procedural with a twist, was written in 8 th grade), how she handled revising this debut to give her protagonist more agency through a structural change and how she's a believer in always needing to be open to changing your story based on feedback. We delve at length into Facebook ads which has proved successful for her, and also

  5. Episode · Aug 27, 2026

    331- Kim Gottlieb-Walker - Author of Lenswoman in Love - a Novel of the 1960's and '70's (opens the original)

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    This week our podcast guest is Kim Gottlieb-Walker (Lenswoman in Love – a Novel of the 1960's and '70's, indie published, February 2025). Kim shares the complete re-writes she did on her debut based on critique group feedback, why she calls herself a patchwork writer, and the story behind the support group of women writers over 70 which she founded. We discuss her life as a photographer in Hollywood, shooting such celebrities as Bob Marley, Pink Floyd, and Joni Mitchell, and how a story of her e

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