Ink in Your Veins

9 Lessons Learned from 9 Years of Full-Time Writing! Join Rachael as she shares what she's learned from being a writer full time. 🏠 INK VILLAGE! Click here for the details! 🎉 Unstuck is now available HERE ! Ink In Your Veins: How Writers Actually Write (and how you can, too) Writing doesn't have to be so hard. With internationally bestselling author Rachael Herron, learn how to embrace ease, rej...

Also: writing about human truths, and the importance of having a second set of eyes on your work at the right time!  ELIZABETH BECKER is a former pediatric nurse and Pushcart Prize-nominated writer. She has worked as a correspondent for Richmond Magazine and the Richmond Times Dispatch, and her award-winning essays have been featured on national sites including Motherwell, Scary Mommy, Mother...

Also, the importance of enjoying other people’s work!  Isa Arsén is a certified bleeding heart and audio engineer based in South Texas, where she lives with her spouse and a comically small dog. The Unbecoming of Margaret Wolf is her most recent novel. Find her at INArsen.com  🏠 INK VILLAGE! Click here for the details! 🎉 Unstuck is now available HERE ! Ink In Your Veins: How Writers Ac...

It’s not selfish to write! Here’s why.  Josee Smith is an indie author and book coach for working moms who want to finish the novel of their dreams. She achieved her childhood dream of finishing a novel and publishing it in 2021, and now she supports other writers with the same dream. As a new mom with a busy job, she understands the challenges of managing it all, and she also believes s...

In which we talk about Sacha’s new empire and how Rachael is enjoying herself (could we just say this for every episode? It’s possible!)  🏠 INK VILLAGE! Click here for the details! 🎉 Unstuck is now available HERE ! Ink In Your Veins: How Writers Actually Write (and how you can, too) Writing doesn't have to be so hard. With internationally bestselling author Rachael Herron, learn how to embr...

Do you also circle the laptop like it might be venomous? You'll love this episode!  Marybeth Mayhew Whalen is the author of Every Moment Since and 9 previous novels. Marybeth received a BA in English with a concentration in Writing and Editing from NC State University a long time ago and has been writing ever since. She is the co-founder of The Book Tide, an online community of readers where...

Tiffany Yates Martin always brings the real talk and also the kind talk. Here we go deep on how to get out of being stuck and not burning out while honoring exactly what we want to do.  Tiffany Yates Martin has spent her entire career as an editor in the publishing industry, working with major publishers and New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling and a...

How do you keep the magic alive when writing?  Sophie Berti lives in California. Find her hiking in the foothills, chasing her kid around the beach, making tea, or on sophieberti.com . Steeped is her first novel.  ❤️ Adventure 52 - Patreon 🚨 Sign up to hear first about the 90 Day courses 🎉 Unstuck is now available HERE ! Ink In Your Veins: How Writers Actually Write (and how you can, t...

More thoughts about the new year, with Sacha and Rachael! ❤️ Adventure 52 - Patreon 🎉 Unstuck is now available HERE ! Ink In Your Veins: How Writers Actually Write (and how you can, too) Writing doesn't have to be so hard. With internationally bestselling author Rachael Herron, learn how to embrace ease, reject perfectionism, and finally create your perfect writing process. (Formerly known as How...

What do you do when life gets so challenging you're not sure what to do next? Follow what Rosie did!  When a rare form of arthritis ended her career and left her in a wheelchair, Rosie Radcliffe had to shield in lockdown so embarked on fulfilling her lifelong dream of becoming a writer. She wrote some dreadful ones before finding her feet, and learned a LOT from podcasts and You Tube. Her nov...

How to make suspense actually suspenseful and the power of a fuzzy outline! Helena Echlin has written for numerous publications on both sides of the Atlantic, including The Guardian and The Times. She taught at Stanford University for eight years and has recently returned to the UK, where she now teaches fiction writing for Oxford University’s Department of Continuing Education. She lives in Oxfor...

Don't miss this chat about not only micro-communities, but how to know when you've NAILED your query letter!  Michele Tracy Berger is the Eric and Jane Nord Family Professor in the Department of Religious Studies and director of the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities at Case Western Reserve University. She has a secondary appointment in the Department of English. In addition to being a scho...

The most popular episode every year - check out what Rachael made in 2024 and how she made it! Also, what will she be changing, adapting, doing in 2025? Her words of the year are Sparkle and Bloom, so that's a hint.  ❤️ Adventure 52 - Patreon 🎉 Unstuck is now available HERE ! Ink In Your Veins: How Writers Actually Write (and how you can, too) Writing doesn't have to be so hard. With interna...

This is an interview you will LOVE, start to finish. Get ready to be overjoyed.  Elisabeth Sharp McKetta is an award-winning writer and writing teacher and a mother of two. With a PhD on the intersections between fairy tales and autobiography, as well as a seven-year streak of writing weekly poems for strangers, she teaches writing for Oxford Department for Continuing Education and for Harvar...

Let's plan for the new year with Sacha and Rachael! ❤️ Adventure 52 - Patreon - http://patreon.com/rachael  ✏️ Write More, Worry Less: A Year of Pressure-Free Productivity Jan 4, 2025 - CLICK HERE for the details! Don't miss the early-bird pricing, good till Dec 10th! 🎉 Unstuck is now available HERE ! Ink In Your Veins: How Writers Actually Write (and how you can, too) Writing doesn't have t...

Support — who needs it? You do! How to get it (and how to hold open space for your writing, too).  Heidi McIntyre’s journey as a writer began in college when a professor convinced her to switch majors to English, igniting her passion for storytelling. With a background in marketing consulting, Heidi spent years specializing in fresh produce, collaborating with growers, commodity boards, and i...

Rachael’s back from swimming with the turtles - catch up with her today. And how does a writer move from flash to longer work? Find out with Kate! Kate Mahony is a long-time writer of short stories and flash fiction with an MA in Creative Writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka. Her work has been published in anthologies and...

Rachael's landing book planes and Sacha's cleaning up after an incredibly successful Kickstarter! Enjoy! 🎉 Unstuck is now available HERE ! Ink In Your Veins: How Writers Actually Write (and how you can, too) Writing doesn't have to be so hard. With internationally bestselling author Rachael Herron, learn how to embrace ease, reject perfectionism, and finally create your perfect writing process. (...

How to write an identity not your own! A lso: on inhabiting your character, on easy reading being damned hard writing, on grounding the reader in a scene, and expecting that you WILL make mistakes (and that's okay.)  Alex Temblador is the Mixed Latine award-winning author of Writing An Identity Not Your Own, Secrets of the Casa Rosada and Half Outlaw. She received her MFA...

On zooming out to look at character interiority and having scene goals, as well as slowing down the hurry mode. Enjoy!  Nicole Meier is an author and book coach living in the Pacific Northwest. Her debut novel, The House of Bradbury, was chosen as a Best Book of 2016 by Refinery29. Her second book, The Girl Made of Clay, was named a Top Book according to Bookbub readers. The Second Chance Sup...

On writing with heart, soul, and pen!  Robin Finn, MPH, MA, is the author of the new book, Heart. Soul. Pen.: Find Your Voice on the Page and in Your Life. She is the creator and founder of Heart. Soul. Pen.® women’s writing workshops and Hot Writing™ where midlife and menopause inspire the desire to say what you mean without apologizing. Robin teaches writing for groups and organization acro...

On being okay with not knowing (it's part of being human) , on listening to dreams, and on "overhearing" your book. Enjoy!  Lauren Aliza Green is a novelist, poet, and musician. Her debut novel, The World After Alice, is out now from Viking (US) and Penguin Michael Joseph (UK). Her chapbook, A Great Dark House, won the Poetry Society of America's Chapbook Fellowship. Her writing has appeared...

Rachael and Sacha chat about her monumental Kickstarter and how it feels, emotionally (answer: weird!) as well as Rachael’s new book idea.  🎉 Unstuck is now available HERE ! Ink In Your Veins: How Writers Actually Write (and how you can, too) Writing doesn't have to be so hard. With internationally bestselling author Rachael Herron, learn how to embrace ease, reject perfectionism, and finall...

On earning the heightened moments in your writing. Also, you don't have to be writing to be writing!   Julie Leong is a Chinese Malaysian American fantasy author who grew up across both New Jersey and Beijing, China. She studied economics and political science at Yale and works in tech, but she has always nurtured a deep love for sci-fi/fantasy beneath her corporate exterior. Julie lives...

How to go from feeling your way through a story to actually knowing a bit about it before you start! Also - what does a cat have to do with kindness?  Ann Rose is a typical Taurus—loyal but stubborn, which means being an author is perfect. While asking the private group chat for ideas on what to include in this bio, Ann was reminded that some of her greatest qualities are her awesome best fri...