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An in-depth conversation about the path and craft of writing with published authors who dish up insights and revelations about their personal journeys, habits, and quirks. Author hosts Meredith Cole and Kristin Swenson take a look at the writer’s journey from idea to publication – process, challenges, inspiration, risks, and more—with their month guests.
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Sunday May 16, 2021
Episode 25: Rebecca Morgan Frank
Sunday May 16, 2021
Sunday May 16, 2021
Kristin and Meredith talk gardens, productivity and inspiration this month. They also chat with poet Rebecca Morgan Frank about high school, writing a poem for a collection, her recent book Oh You Robot Saints! and her recent collaborations with composers.

Friday Apr 30, 2021
Episode 24: Alex Segura
Friday Apr 30, 2021
Friday Apr 30, 2021
This month Kristin and Meredith talk spring, vaccines, and revising. They chat with Alex Segura, author of novels, comic books, short stories and podcasts, about how he juggles different genres and small children. He also talks about the pros and cons of collaboration, working for hire and keeping a series going forever.

Thursday Mar 18, 2021
Episode 23: John Yunker
Thursday Mar 18, 2021
Thursday Mar 18, 2021
Meredith and Kristin talk about reviving projects, when, and how to decide which to tackle, before talking issues, environment, animals and more with writer and publisher, John Yunker co-founder with writer Midge Raymond of Ashland Creek Press and EcoLit Books blog. He's the author of plays, essays, and the novels The Tourist Trail and Where Oceans Hide Their Dead.

Thursday Feb 11, 2021
Episode 22: Kristin Swenson
Thursday Feb 11, 2021
Thursday Feb 11, 2021
Co-host Kristin Swenson's got a new book out! And Meredith's on the spot with questions and thoughts of her own in this lively discussion between the two of them. They catch up on novels-in-progress and talk about how it's been releasing A Most Peculiar Book: The Inherent Strangeness of the Bible (Oxford UP).

Monday Feb 08, 2021
Episode 21: Kristen-Paige Madonia
Monday Feb 08, 2021
Monday Feb 08, 2021
Kristin and Meredith start off the new year talking about writing residencies, Kristin's new book and interview YA and literary fiction author Kristen-Paige Madonia. Kristen-Paige is the author of Invisible Fault Lines and Fingerprints of You.

Saturday Nov 14, 2020
Ep. 20 Robin Farmer
Saturday Nov 14, 2020
Saturday Nov 14, 2020
Meredith and Kristin talk manuscript evolution, first draft and beyond. Robin Farmer relates her writer's journey through journalism, screenwriting, and writing residencies, and discusses her (whoohoo!) debut novel MALCOLM AND ME, staring down the "woke police," and telling it true.

Monday Oct 26, 2020
Episode 19: E.A. Aymar
Monday Oct 26, 2020
Monday Oct 26, 2020
Kristin shares exciting writing news, and we talk to E.A. Aymar about his new thriller, They're Gone, coming out in November under the name E.A. Barres. Meredith met E.A. at the first DC Noir at the Bar (which he organizes). They discuss thrillers, writing from a multicultural perspective, pseudonyms, and the benefits of writing short fiction and articles in between publishing books.

Tuesday Sep 15, 2020
Episode 18: Meg Medina
Tuesday Sep 15, 2020
Tuesday Sep 15, 2020
Meredith and Kristin visit with Newbery Medal winner Meg Medina about the racy tales of Meg's abuela, "the queen" of her family's unofficial historistas (storytellers), Meg's personal road to becoming an award-winning author, and the incalculable resource of a good librarian. A couple lucky listener/subscribers will receive free copies of the fresh-off-the-press anthology The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love & Truth , to which Meg contributed a chapter.

Monday Jul 27, 2020
Episode 17: Kellye Garrett
Monday Jul 27, 2020
Monday Jul 27, 2020
Kristin and Meredith talk about how torturing your characters is a must if you want to write a compelling novel. They also chat with Kellye Garrett, who shares her early love of cozies (and why representation matters), gives the origin story for Crime Writers of Color, and talks about how #pitchwars helped launch her career (and the careers of many other writers). Plus, she talks about her newest book and how she got her idea for it.

Monday Jun 01, 2020
Episode 16: Sharon Harrigan
Monday Jun 01, 2020
Monday Jun 01, 2020
Kristin and Meredith talk about writing in the middle of political unrest and tragedy, and talk to Sharon Harrigan. Sharon's debut novel HALF comes out June 9. She talks about writing poetry, memoir and now fiction, her path to becoming a writer, and what it was like write from the point of view of a first-person plural narrator.