Ink in Your Veins

Eliza and Rachael talk about birds, maybe a bit too much, in both their writing and this podcast! Listen as they talk about upping the tension in their writing by realizing this sooner, rather than later. Raised in the Detroit suburbs, Eliza Nellums now lives with her cat outside Washington DC. Her first novel ALL THAT’S BRIGHT AND GONE was named as an Amazon Editor’s Pick for December, and was pr...

Sacha Black is an author, rebel podcaster, and speaker. She has five obsessions: words, expensive shoes, conspiracy theories, self-improvement, and breaking the rules.  Sacha writes books for teens and other books about the art of writing. When she's not writing, she can be found laughing inappropriately loud, sniffing musty old books, fangirling film and TV soundtracks, or thinking...

Join Rachael as she reports from the battle lines of Revisionlandia - fresh from getting her OWN revision letter, she talks about how to handle the emotions that come with someone else helping you with your work (real talk). Also, she answers Patrons’ questions: how to believe in yourself to keep writing, what to do when you’re querying a book but not sure if you should go back to editing it, and...

On this fabulous episode, Kerri Maher talks about the way we all need community (and how to find it). She is the author of  The Girl in White Gloves ,  The Kennedy Debutante , and, under the name Kerri Majors,  This Is Not a Writing Manual: Notes for the Young Writer in the Real World . She holds an MFA from Columbia University and was a writing professor for many years. She no...

Farah Jasmine Griffin is the William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where she also served as the inaugural Chair of the African American and African Diaspora Studies Department. In her most recent book, Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature, published September 14 by W.W. Norton, Griffin pays homag...

Kit Mayquist uses a technique not often talked about: working backward, not from the end, but from the dark moment, and it's everything. A fan of everything spooky and indulgent,  Kit Mayquist  is a bisexual, trans masculine writer who can be found in the historic shadows of Boston, Massachusetts, hunched over his desk with a sullen Persian cat in his lap and surrounded by antiques. He h...

Sabrina Benaim is a poet, storyteller, and workshop facilitator. She is one of the most-viewed spoken word poets of all time: her videos have reached more than one hundred million people. In 2017, her debut collection, Depression & Other Magic Tricks, was a Goodreads Choice Awards finalist, finishing just behind Rupi Kaur's The Sun and Her Flowers. In 2020, she took part in the Heavy Hitters F...

Rachael talks about paid reviews (you might be surprised!), how to write a personal essay, how to arrive at theme, and what’s going on with women’s fiction. Enjoy!  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina  meets  The L Word  in this fresh, sizzling  New York Times  bestselling rom-com by Lana Harper. Lana  is the author of four YA novels about modern-day witches and historical murderesses written as Lana Papović. Born in Serbia, she grew up in Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria before moving to the US, where she studied psychology and literat...

Aylene Lambert i s an emerging writer based in San Francisco. She is editing her first novel, Meet Me @ Blackbird, which explores themes of power, privilege, and gender. Aylene is driven by the stories we tell ourselves, and how to change those stories to better serve us. She is the founder of STAXstudio, where she will be teaching classes on how to shift mindsets, process emotions,...

You might be surprised how Rachel Howzell Hall uses longhand to spur her writing! She's the critically acclaimed author of the Amazon Charts bestseller These Toxic Things and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize-nominated And Now She’s Gone , which was also nominated for the Lefty-, Barry-, Shamus- and Anthony Awards. Also author of the Audible Originals bestseller How It Ends, Rachel is a New York Ti...

Rachael talks about the perils and the pleasures of a beta reader, as well as how to know when you’re done with the book, and whether to work on more than one project at a time! Enjoy this mini-episode brought to you by her patrons at http://patreon.com/rachael Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Rachael gets granular about not only what she wants to do this year, but WHY she wants to. Enjoy!  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In which Rachael breaks down what she made in 2021, and how she made it. Don’t miss this one!  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A bonus episode - Rachael Herron and J Thorn catch on this week, FIVE YEARS after they first started The Writer's Well (aka The Petal to the Metal). Enjoy the lovefest. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What's the big deal about TikTok ? It's fun, it's sexy, and Eva Moore is doing something totally unique with it. Listen in. Eva Moore  writes sexy contemporary romances featuring compelling characters finding love in the modern world. Pulling up her Chicagoland roots, she has chased adventures around the globe, with stints in France and Singapore. Eva now lives in California (a...

Rachael's honored to introduce you to Monna McDiarmid and her new podcast, Ease Lessons. Here's a snippet from the new show, and Rachael gets really vulnerable about her own writing in it. Enjoy! Find Ease Lessons here! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Just a quickie miniepisode here as Rachael FREAKS OUT about how well A Life in Stitches is doing, along with a chapter from her memoir! Enjoy! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jason Craig Poole  is a word nerd who wants to play in all of the literary sandboxes -- especially poetry, creative nonfiction and fiction. After years of feeling like he was STUCK, he studied how his own mind works and began assembling a writer's toolbox. Thanks to his tools, he's not stuck anymore. (But he still doesn't know how to operate a power saw.) And today we're talking about Four Th...

Rachael Herron shares tips and tricks for when writing is hard to do, as well as what to do when you lose control of a manuscript and wonder if you should just start a new book.  This show is sponsored by her Patrons at the $5 level! Join Rachael’s mini-coaching tier! And don’t miss the 15-Day Frolic! - it’s the most fun you’ll have writing this year.  How Do You Write Podcast: Explore t...

Chandra Prasad is the author of the critically acclaimed novels On Borrowed Wings , Death of a Circus , Breathe the Sky , and Damselfly , a female-driven young adult text used both individually in classrooms and in parallel with Lord of the Flies . Prasad is also the editor of—and a contributor to— Mixed , the first-ever anthology of short stories on the multiracial experience. Being half-Asian he...

RENEE K. NICHOLSON splits her artistic pursuits between writing and dance with scholarship in narrative medicine. She is Associate Professor and Director of the Humanities Center at West Virginia University. An award-winning writer, her books include two collections of poetry, Roundabout Directions to Lincoln Center and Post Script; a memoir-in-essays, Fierce and Delicate: Essays on Dance and Illn...

In this bonus mini-episode, Rachael talks to a listener about how to keep going when it feels like all hope is lost.  How Do You Write Podcast : Explore the processes of working writers with bestselling author Rachael Herron. Want tips on how to write the book you long to finish? Here you'll gain insight from other writers on how to get in the chair, tricks to stay in it, and inspiration to g...

Cassie Roma is a powerhouse in the boardroom, in front of a camera, and speaking in front of local & global audiences on business & personal topics that impassion her. Passionate about creative content, social media strategy, the influencer economy, and storytelling across mediums both emerging and traditional, Cassie has literally lived & breathed the digital revolution. All the while...

In this mini-episode sponsored by her amazing patrons, Rachael talks about dealing with the shiny writing projects that pop up just when they’re least needed, as well as how to decide between infinite writing possibilities, how to create resonance in the reader, dealing with overwriting tendencies. Also, how much research is enough?  Want to have Rachael as your mini-coach? Go here! http://pa...