Ink in Your Veins

A Paul and Daisy Soros fellow, Sanjena Sathian is a 2019 graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She has worked as a reporter in Mumbai and San Francisco, with nonfiction bylines for The New Yorker, The New York Times, Food & Wine, The Boston Globe, and The San Francisco Chronicle. Gold Diggers is her debut novel.  How Do You Write Podcast: Explore the processes of working writers wi...

Emma Straub is the New York Times-bestselling author of four novels, All Adults Here, Modern Lovers, The Vacationers and Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures, and the short story collection Other People We Married. Her books have been published in twenty countries. She and her husband own Books Are Magic, an independent bookstore in Brooklyn, New York. How Do You Write Podcast : Explore the processes o...

Jennifer Craven  is the author of "A Long Way From Blair Street" and "All That Shines and Whispers," both works of historical fiction. In addition to her novels, she had bylines in various publications including the Washington Post, HuffPost, Motherly, Today's Parent and more. When she's not writing, she teaches fashion merchandising at Mercyhurst University in Erie, Pa.  &nbsp...

Ilana Masad  is a fiction writer, essayist, and book critic whose work has appeared in the  New York Times ,  Los Angeles Times ,  Washington Post , the  Paris Review , NPR,  BuzzFeed ,  Catapult ,  StoryQuarterly ,  McSweeney’s Internet Tendency , as well as several others.  All My Mother’s Lovers  is Masad’s debut novel. How Do You...

Kathryn Nicolai is the creator of the enormously successful podcast  Nothing Much Happens and the author of the book of the same name. Nicolai is an architect of coziness, writing soothing stories that both ease the reader into peaceful sleep and teach the principals of mindfulness so that waking hours likewise become sweet and serene. She leans on her years of experience as a yoga and medita...

Kirsty Capes works in publishing and, as a care leaver, is an advocate for better representation for care-experienced people in the media. She recently completed her PhD which investigates female-centric care narratives in contemporary fiction, under the supervision of 2019 Booker prize-winner, Bernardine Evaristo.  Careless  is her first novel. How Do You Write Podcast: Explore the proc...

Meghan Scott Molin comes to writing by way of a Masters in Architecture, a minor in Opera, a professional career as a barn manager, and five years crash course as a mother. She currently resides in Colorado with her fellow zookeeper (husband), sons, horse, adopted stray cats, and corgi. She is an avid lover of everything nerdy from Wars to Trek, Hobbits, Who, and beyond. When she's not writin...

Kristin Beck  first learned about World War II from her grandmother, who served as a Canadian army nurse, fell in love with an American soldier in Belgium, and married him shortly after VE Day. Kristin thus grew up hearing stories about the war, and has been captivated by the often unsung roles of women in history ever since. A former teacher, she holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from the...

Kathleen West's novels, Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes and Are We There Yet?, have been best books picks by Real Simple , Newsweek , People Magazine , Entertainment Weekly , Good Morning America, Pop Sugar, and the New York Post . A teacher for 20 years before she published her first novel, Kathleen is particularly interested in the topics of motherhood, ambition, competitive parenting, and...

Nancy Stohlman is the author of four books of flash fiction including  Madam Velvet’s Cabaret of Oddities  (a finalist for a 2019 Colorado Book Award),  The Vixen Scream and Other Bible Stories  (2014), and  The Monster Opera  (2013). She is the creator of The Fbomb Flash Fiction Reading Series and FlashNano in November. Her craft book,  Going Short: An Invitatio...

Bonus mini-episode, brought to you by my mini-coached Patrons! Question include: Should I write a book proposal? What’s fictionalized memoir, anyway? And how can I learn to revise my book?  Books mentioned:  Moonglow, Michael Chabon - https://amzn.to/3dmmg3Z How Should a Person Be, Sheila Heti - https://amzn.to/3dm81fH Dept. of Speculation, Jenny Offill - https://amzn.to/3abGUlh For revi...

YES, you should have writing goals. But here’s why they don’t (actually) matter that much. And it’s going to blow your mind. Enjoy.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sonya Lalli  is a Canadian writer of Indian heritage. She studied law in her hometown of Saskatoon and at Columbia University in New York, and later completed an MA in creative writing and publishing at City, University of London. Sonya has a black belt in tae kwon do and loves travel, yoga, and cocktail bartending. She lives in Toronto with her husband. How Do You Write Podcast: Explore the...

New York Times and USA Today bestselling novelist Deanna Raybourn is a 6th-generation native Texan. She graduated with a double major in English and history from the University of Texas at San Antonio. Married to her college sweetheart and the mother of one, Raybourn makes her home in Virginia. Her novels have been nominated for numerous awards including five RITAs, two RT Reviewers' Choice awards...

Erika Robuck  is the national bestselling author of  Hemingway’s Girl ,  Call Me Zelda,   Fallen Beauty, The House of Hawthorne,  and  Receive Me Falling . She is a contributor to the anthology  Grand Central: Postwar Stories of Love and Reunion , and to the Writer’s Digest Essay Collection,  Author in Progress . She writes satire ( #Hockeystrong ) as E. Rob...

Chang-rae Lee  is the author of  Native Speaker , winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for first fiction, as well as  On Such a Full Sea ,  A Gesture Life ,  Aloft , and  The Surrendered , winner of the Dayton Peace Prize and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. My Year Abroad is his new novel.  How Do You Write Podcast: Explore the processes of working wri...

Jasmine Mans  is a Black American poet and artist from Newark, New Jersey. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin Madison, with a B.A. in African American Studies. Her debut collection of poetry,  Chalk Outlines of Snow Angels , was published in 2012, and BLACK GIRL, CALL HOME , just out, is a love letter to the wandering Black girl, and a vital companion to anyone on a jour...

Elly Griffiths was born in London in 1963. Her first crime novel The Crossing Places is set on the Norfolk coast where she spent holidays as a child and where her aunt still lives. Her interest in archaeology comes from her husband, Andrew, who gave up his city job to retrain as an archaeologist. She lives in Brighton, on the south coast of England, with her husband and two children. The Postscrip...

In this episode, Rachael dives deeply into hybrid presses. What’s the difference between them and assisted self-publishing? Or vanity presses? How can you tell the difference, and most importantly, how can you protect yourself from being scammed?  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 l...

In this episode, Rachael Herron answers questions from her Patreon supporters. What does a crappy draft actually look like, for real? Also, we talk about making sure stories move forward in a real way when constrained by historical facts, how to incorporate beta reader feedback if it’s all over the place, and why we flip away from our manuscripts when we’re “thinking” about them.  How Do You...

How do you write dark? Like, REALLY dark? Abigail Dean tells us. Abigail Dean works as a lawyer for Google, and before that was a bookseller. She lives in London, and is working on her second novel. Girl A is her first novel, just out in the United States after a competitive international auction that saw the book sell in 25 territories. It’s been optioned for TV rights for a limited series w...

In 2016, Janna Ruth's plans for the new year was one submission to an agent. By the end of the year, she had won a writing competition with German publisher Ueberreuter and was deep in the throes to publish a second novel with a group of self-publishers. That novel, a modern fairy tale retelling with mental health topics, went on to win the SERAPH Phantastikpreis. Since then, Janna has published m...

Lisa Gardner   is the #1  New York Times  bestselling author of twenty-three suspense novels, including  The Neighbor , which won Thriller of the Year from the International Thriller Writers. An avid hiker, traveler, and cribbage player, she lives in the mountains of New Hampshire with her family. Before She Disappeared is her latest stand alone novel.  How Do You Wri...

In this bonus miniepisode, Rachael talks about how to start writing your book when it’s all you want to do and you’re still not doing it. Also: how to lay groundwork in a first novel in a series for the next book without letting down the reader, how to deal with a revision letter, and how to use a foreign language in context!  How Do You Write Podcast: Explore the processes of working writers...

Rachel Lynn Solomon writes, tap dances, and collects red lipstick in Seattle, Washington. She is the author of the YA novels  Today Tonight Tomorrow ,  You'll Miss Me When I'm Gone ,  Our Year of Maybe , and  We Can’t Keep Meeting Like This  (June 2021). She will also tell anyone who'll listen that it really doesn't rain that much in Seattle, where she lives with her...