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Welcome to The Writing Coach. On this podcast, author Kevin T. Johns speaks with the instructors, editors, coaches, and mentors that help writers and authors create their art, build their audience, and sell their work.
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- Sep 30, 2026
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Pre-Made vs. Custom Book Covers, Explained | Usama Munir, Design Dusk - The Writing Coach Ep. 238 (opens the original)
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My guest this week on The Writing Coach podcast is Usama Munir, the designer behind Design Dusk , a book cover studio with more than 1,700 pre-made covers ready to go, plus custom covers, book trailers, and full interior typesetting. He designed his first book cover as a teenager, for an author who reached out to him out of nowhere, and he never really stopped. We get into the real difference between a pre-made cover and a custom one, and why pre-made is usually the smarter starting point, not t
Writing Transgressive Fiction: Ron Black on 'Bleu' and the Character No One Has to Like – The Writing Coach Ep. 237 (opens the original)
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My guest is Ron Black on this episode of The Writing Coach podcast, and his debut novel Bleu: A Transgressive Tale follows Anthony, a struggling artist in a version of Ottawa most Canadian fiction doesn't go near — squats, addiction, an art world he doesn't feel he belongs in, and a marriage where the violence runs in a direction fiction rarely lets it run. Ron's been my client for years, so this one's personal for me too. We get into why an unlikable protagonist doesn't need to be a likable one
Marketing Your Book Without Losing the Time to Write It: Marvin Wey of AuthorScale on AI, TikTok, and Selling More Books – The Writing Coach Ep. 236 (opens the original)
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If you've ever felt like promoting your book on social media is a second full-time job you never signed up for, this episode is for you. My guest is Marvin Wey, co-founder of AuthorScale, a tool that helps indie authors turn their own books into the social media posts that actually sell them. Before AuthorScale, Marvin spent years working with six- and seven-figure authors at Inkit and Galatea, watching what happened when BookTok turned overnight virality into a real marketing channel. We get in
The Spiritual Side of Beating Writer's Burnout: Charlotte Donlon on Rituals, Rest, and Writing – The Writing Coach Ep. 235 (opens the original)
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In this episode of The Writing Coach podcast, I speak with Charlotte Donlon. Charlotte spent years training as a spiritual director — the kind of one-on-one guidance usually reserved for matters of faith — and somewhere along the way, her clients turned out to be writers. Lots of them. Enough that she started noticing the same conversations kept happening, whether the person across from her believed in God, doubted everything, or hadn't thought about any of it in years. That's the premise behind
Murder, Wormholes, and AIs in Your Head: Talking Sci‑Fi with J.E. Sheasby – The Writing Coach Ep. 234 (opens the original)
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What happens when an AI doesn't just assist you but lives inside your head? In this episode of The Writing Coach podcast, I sit down with my client, science fiction author J.E. Sheasby, to discuss his debut novel, Shared Sentience , and the first book in an ambitious seven-book series he has spent nearly a decade developing. Jim takes us behind the scenes of a future set thousands of years from now, where humanity has spread across 132 solar systems, AI is embedded directly into the human mind,
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