Romance Writer's Therapy

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...

This episode was recorded back in January, but Kate ADHD'd for like 6 months straight, in true Kate fashion. We're so back.  But writing advice has no expiration date! (Or does it?) Here's the highlights: Try Writing A Different Way Than You Normally Do Under 200 Words That Made Me Angry Break Rules For Good Reasons Not Everyone Should Write Like You Many Different Kinds of Dumpling...

This year's Finale Episode, we've looked at each other and tried to imagine what we want to see what directions we want to see each other's writing journeys and author careers go. 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...

The Highlights: I'm Being Productive, I Promise Kate Rambles for 5 Minutes to Tell You She's Working On Something New Does Anyone Read Anthologies? Just The Marty Party On Rushing Endings The Itty Bittiest of Problems Wigged Out By Happiness Grab Five Pages and Flip All of Then Bringing Back the Idea of Making Characters Fail Flashing A Nipple, Eight Times Is Maine Cool? Read Kate Prior&...

TW: Rabies, Bites, Shots The Highlights: Edits Back from Heathitor Marty Just Keeps Writing (Overshot by 40k Words) No One Thinks They Like Second Chance Romances Grounding Marty From 2nd Chance Romances The Same Kiss Ten Times Over Kate Spoils The Rest of Her Next Book While Soundboarding Some Issues With It Can't Escape the Workplace Romance Kate Will Never Pump Her Own Gas (New Jersey, Bab...

The Highlights: East Coasters Are Weird About Fall Treating Plot Like the Steel Armature Holding Up These Twelve Raccoons In a Trenchcoat Marty's Been Doing Things Babies' First Real Romance Novels We Pretend We're Gonna Talk About MFA's for A Second Kate's Once Again Trying to Learn Animation Friends Enable Each Other's Hyperfixations Identifying What Tools We'r...

The Highlights:  There are No Right Directions, but There are Wrong Ones The Suspense of Writing Goodreads Review Sheild for Authors You Don't Have to Top the Last Thing You Did Every Time Telling the Same Joke In Ten Different Ways In Marketing You Don't Need to Reinvent the Wheel Every Time Saying Something Besides "Buy My Book" ADHD'd Too Close to the Sun "You&apos...

Marty and Kate bring Heather the Editor (Spellboundedits) on the show to talk about last minute edits, both sides of the process, how to find a qualified editor, and everything else they can think of.   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 R...

The Highlights Include: Insert Yourself with Some Fanfiction When You're Unsatisfied with Your Happy Ending (That's What She Said) How To Make Friends Online That Guy At the Concert Who SUCKED Bring Something You Love to the Table Yes Kate Has Shared This Thought Before (I'm So Sure This Loop Thing Was On Last Week's Episode Too) Marty's Most Productive Work-Play Cycle The...

The Highlights: The Novelty of Finishing Things On Time Social Media Calendar Software Characters Failing Makes them More Interesting Try-Fail Cycles The Inevitable Unlikeable Heroine Trap  Continuing to Beat This Cart Before the Horse  Elijah Was Never A Bad Boy Read Kate Prior's new-release, Be My Bad Guy , where the superhero's ex girlfriend falls for the supervillain's henchman...

The Highlights: Getting Vaguely Technical About Air Conditioning Weekly Reminder Kate is Bad at Math It (Was) Too Dang Hot When Did 40k Words Get In Here The Book You Envision at the Start VS the Book That Manifests When Does Character Motivation Come In? Infodumping VS Answering Questions as They Come Up Just Add a Dick to It The Real Brand Identity Is the Friends We Made Along the Way Playing to...

The Highlights: How Romance Readers Play Minecraft  Use Your Half-Started Ideas For a Change Theory about TikTok Theories  Kate and Marty List Some Real Horny Shit Your Books Need A Quick Treatise on Instalove Everybody Looks Better with a Little Bit of Dirt on Their Face Your Hero Can't Just Be Hot But He Better Have Some Fucking Hands On Him Acts of Service Are Sexy Read Kate Prior's n...