Romance Writer's Therapy

Now back to our, normal, scatter-brained programing.  The Highlights: I Send Her So Many Bird Memes Wasting Time On the Thing I'm Good At It's So Hard to Do Blurbs Really Unimpressed with Billionaires  Marty's Giving Herself a Lot of Challenges This Time Around You're Not Killing Enough Darlings In Defense of the Makeover Trope Read Kate Prior's new-release, Be My Bad Guy...

Finishing out our series of interviews with the authors of the Hotel Bellwether novellas, Kate asks Marty Vee all the same questions.  Surprisingly few mentions of ghosts this episode.  The Highlights: Seems Like The Name Is Gonna Stay Notes Were Not Taken Pushing All the Buttons I Said Not To The Real Reason You Don't Meet Any Gene's Marty is Really Prepared for These Questions Only One...

Marty Vee interviews author Dani Mclean about her upcoming release, Can't Stay Away, #4 in the Hotel Bellwether series! The Highlights: This is How Kate Finds Out Courtney Clark Micheals and Marty are Having Phone Calls Without Her The Balancing Act of Time/Creativity/Life The Oppurtunity to Be Afraid Generational Pilfering Mindshift: Pretending to be Your Own Assistant Working through the He...

Marty Vee interviews husband-wife author duo MéLisa Ryun about their upcoming release, No Room for Rivals, #3 in the Hotel Bellwether series! The Highlights: Vacation Vibes at Hotel Bellwether Community Writing Expiriance The Husband-Wife Author Duo Dynamic Learning from Lost Chapters Best Joke Wins Warning: You Will Be Very Attached to Sea Lions After this Book Small Towns Make Big Imaginations W...

Marty Vee interviews Cara Dion about her upcoming release, Key Change, #2 in the Hotel Bellwether series! The Highlights: Cara Dion's Grandparents' Haunted House 15 Minutes Straight of Ghost Stories and Astrology Marty Invents the Word "Squiffy" Key Change Opens with the Steam Fade to Black for Narrative Reasons The Dark Roads of the Pansters Marty Recommends "Atmosphere&q...

This week Marty chats with Roxie Noir about her upcoming release, ROOM SERVICED , which comes out friday! Here are the highlights: What Defines A Beach? Michigan's Upper Peninsula Is Not Up for Grabs, Wisconsin Michigan's Lobster Claw Flawless Segue into Roxie's New Release The Worst Genre, Self-Help Books About Technology Ghost Hunters Bet Single and Unencumbered, Would You Fuck A...

We're back! Settle in, Listener.  The Highlights: Our Last Quarter Recap Mindset Shift to Marketing A Bit Woo-Woo from Time to Time A Non-Biased Man in Phoenix The Eternal Dance of Getting In Your Own Way The Enemy of Done Constantly Giving Her His Clothing Read Kate Prior's new-release, Be My Bad Guy , where the superhero's ex girlfriend falls for the supervillain's henchman a...

This is our season 5 finale! Thank you so much Listener for sticking with us through 2025's bumps and bruises, we'll see you after our hiatus next year! The Highlights: Wake Up, Listener!! Bookmark Hell Curse of Cricut Ownership You Can't Cry Over A Eugene People Love A Sparkle Wounds and Family Dynamics (a la 27 Dresses) Loosely Planning Our 2026's Do Yall Remember Stickergate...

The Highlights: Magical Worldbuilding Blues Don't Ruin Your Brain Doing the Things That Haven't Been Getting Results What I Feel I Should Be Capable Of Letting It Consume You The Wisdom In Calluses The Algos They Are A-Changing Read Kate Prior's new-release, Be My Bad Guy , where the superhero's ex girlfriend falls for the supervillain's henchman after a kidnapping gone wr...

The Highlights of this episode got eaten by Kate's computer restarting, so you're on your own with this one, Listener.  Read Kate Prior's new-release, Be My Bad Guy , where the superhero's ex girlfriend falls for the supervillain's henchman after a kidnapping gone wrong. Marty Vee's newest book Remi and Alicia Can' Fall Again is out now! Sign up for Marty's...

The Highlights: Kate's Written Logan's Breakup Scene Marty's Finished Writing Remi and Alicia! Putting Less Pressure On Release Date Reviews 6 Months of Following A Promo Plan Marty Stresses Kate Out with Her Launch Plan Your Pace Is Your Pace Kate's Oozey Arc Boxes I Have a Plan... Can It Be Pretty? Time is Hard to Come By, Sometimes Read Kate Prior's new-release, Be My B...

The Highlights: Disrespecto the Pesto Ten Years of Being Bad At French We Keep Coming Back to Kate's Fridge Thing Audible Sandwhich ASMR At 14:15 Minutes In  Would Never Trust Myself to Love Again After What Happened To Remi and Alicia Honestly Marty Reads Kate's Social Security Number On Air No More Slowburns EVER Marty's Handwritten Book Microtrope: Mistaken Identity Via Bad Names...

The Highlights: Consensually Cuffed to the Table Intellecting About Kissing Scenes Not In A Weird Way, In a Hot Way Kate Won't Let Go of the Bad Pencil Skirt Running Out of Steam By The End of The Book Plot Sustaining Endings Switching Gears Carrying All Your Mistakes Slowest of the Slow Burns A More Gesture-y Grand Gesture Fucking Tired of These Guys (Said With Love) Goals, But No Way To Tra...

Today's episode we have Katie from from the Cheap Smut podcast joining us, lending us her perspective on the many bookish world topics and tangents we roam through.  If you want more of Katie, check out Cheap Smut , Katie and Max's amazing, bantery podcast about the wild and wonderous stories and ideas you can find in romance and erotica.  https://linktr.ee/cheapsmut Read Kate Prior&apos...

Kate has been working hard on our next episode of this season, but the silly file is causing her trouble. So, enjoy this repost, and know that we'll have a conversation with Katie of Cheap Smut Podcast just as soon as we can! This episode, Marty and Kate talk about: The Outside Is Attacking Us (Allergies) Marty Isn't DNFing Out of Spite Marty F's Around with Prequels and Finds Out S...

The Highlights Take One Was Just Primal Screaming For A Bit The Problem With Looking Back At Where You Were Marty's Had A Year Pondering On Setbacks Reminding Yourself Of The Marathon What Is the Next Thing That's Going to Make Me Happy, In This Process? Kate Hasn't Forgotten That One File She Lost 10 Years ago Edits Lost to the Ether  Some Chapters Have to Get Worked On Read Kate P...

The Highlights: AI Dogwhistles Testimonial Marketing Fucking Ai Invading Every Facet Of Our Lives AND FOR WHAT Accutely Aware of Perception Being Affected By Mood Dissecting "If You Don't Enjoy Writing It, Will Readers Enjoy Reading It" I Don't Need It To Be Imperfect It's Kinda Your Fault, Kate Long And Winding Thought about the Dunning-Kruger Effect Looking for the Bad L...

The Highlights: Nintendogs Wasn't Real Proof That You're Funny Andrew Could Do Heart Surgery, Probably Fear of A Free Chair Marty's Soliloquy  The Quit Your Dayjob Gremlin Comes Back Not Everyone's Goals Are Your Goals Don't Forget That Roxie Noir Can Parallel Park Kate Mumbles About Refridgerator Tastes And Someday, You'll Take Your Last Breath Kate's Really Stu...

Read Kate Prior's new-release, Be My Bad Guy , where the superhero's ex girlfriend falls for the supervillain's henchman after a kidnapping gone wrong. Marty Vee's newest book Remi and Alicia Can' Fall Again is out now! Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get Hazel and Elijah Don't Get Caught for free! You can find Kate on threads @bykateprior and In...

*The book events discussed are BookHarvest2025 which both Marty and Kate pulled out of later in the year, and Monsterotica2025.  **Apologies for Kate's horrendous audio, she hated listening to it too The Highlights: Impromptu Reminder We've Got Reasonable Rates Everything Kate Learned About Book Events All At Once Neither A Boat Nor A Train, But A Secret Third Thing Ticket VS Book Math E...

The Highlights: Boob Assisted Device Don't Take That Tone With Me, Book Genre-Specific Writing Advice, Revisited Parallel Rails They Don't Know They're Sitting On Memory Foam The Cliche is There Because It's A Delight Marty Recommends 7 Figure Fiction for the 1000th Time Forearms, You Little Slut Playing 4D Chess with My Psyche A Quick Moral Crisis About Social Media Platforms...

The Highlights: We've Been Corny the Whole Time Your Woo Stuff is Different from My Woo Stuff Factually Correct Jokes Are Always Funnier 2025 Bingo Resolutions Book Release Fomo One 150k Word Book VS Three 50k Word Books Kate's Theory About Genre-Specific Writing Advice To Monologue Or Not To Monologue Lemme Off the Leash Boss The Seed Oils Thing Is Barely Relevant Read Kate Prior's...

The Highlights:  Get Your Vitamin D Books Finally Getting Titles The Worst Draft Marty's Ever Written  It Can Have A Bad Ending The First Time Around No Citations, Thank You  The Narratives We Spin For Ourselves Brains Suck, Man (Still Better than AI, Though) Tonally Off-Putting Andrew Could Not Land a 747 Knowing Your Characters: Before or After the Book Ends? Confidence Vs Anxiety: You&apos...

The Highlights: Weirdly Aggressive Towards Other Kates I Love It But I Hate It Dish Towel Scootin' Working Out Timeline Issues On Air Coming Back to a Project You've Grown Out Of Dynamic Vs Static Scenes (Things Should Happen In Stories, Duh) We Spend A Lot of Time On Camera Angles as Metaophor for Storytelling Time As One of the Best Editing Tools Grow Apathetic About Your Darlings Befo...

The Highlights: Mushrooms, Menoras, Gnomes January is Too Short, Actually Year Long Calender...2!!! Not Kool Aid Man Shenanigans  The Fear of "No One Would Actually Say That" Sexy is, Unforuntately, Subjective Dan Rathers Based Dirty Talk He Only Talks in The Bedroom (Marty's Pet Peeve) I Don't Think He's Earned "Daddy" Privileges Experiencing The Same Gamechange...