Romance Writer's Therapy

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...

The girls record their first episode together in Michigan!  It's important to start this episode with a reminder with just how bad we are at math.  Setting up an Etsy Vs. Woocommerce What to Stock Intermittent Nail Polish Breaks How to Run a Giveaway Strategies Around Engaging Your Reader Group Read Kate Prior's new-release, Be My Bad Guy , where the superhero's ex girlfriend falls...

The Highlights: New Recording Time, Who Dis Marty's Dilemna: Two Books, One HEA Kate Recaps the 2019 Tumblr Nose-Dive Vanity Metrics VS. Backlog Awareness  Long, Possibly Bad Shelved Projects Bob Ross and the Order Of Operation Spending 10x the Time to Write A Sentence as A Reader Spends Reading It Instead of a Mind Palace Kate Has A Mind TrashCan Quick Graphic Designer Tip (Interrupted) Kate...

The Highlights: Sometimes It's Better that an Opportunity Missed You Publishing Is Intensely Cyclical Statistically, How Are You Doing? The Fruits of Consistency Sometimes You Have to Make Terrible Choices (For Your Sinuses) Who Would Have Guessed that Authors Run on Positive Feedback Different Strategies for Writing Series Critically Acclaimed Holes Romance Subplot (2012) Pull Quotes Are Unn...

The Highlights: We Don't Care for Episode Topics Gaslight Yourself Into Thinking Your Book is Good Marty Forgot Her Dog Outside But It's FINE FOMO About BookCons When You Don't Even like Leading the House Kate Hates NYC on an NJ Level Author Group Chats are Good and Bad for Learning Bite Off What You Can Chew, Despite FOMO Cultivating Joy In A Writing Career The Importance of Good R...

The Highlights: Kate Can't Rawdog a Movie 5 Minutes Straight of Explaining The Above It's Andrew's Podcast Now Marty's Plans for Release Romancelandia Discourse You Can't Tell But We Edited Out The Part Where We Retcon Whatever The Episode Was Going to Be About If You Read this Book Wrong The Metaphor Ran Away from Me Outlines Have A Strange DNFing Power Over Marty What If...

Katerina Stone is back! Kate, Marty and Katerina chat about the last four episodes of Bridgerton season 3. They have some mixed feelings and hot takes! Prepare yourself, or don't, it's up to you. SPOILERS ABOUND! Watch Bridgerton season three before listening, but don't forget to listen. (And maybe read the first 5 books in the series… 'Kay, thanks!) Their assessment of season...

Jami Albright joins Marty in this episode about understanding and presenting your author brand! Jami shares her expertise on the promise an author makes to their readers, figuring out what is the unique thing you offer in your writing/books, and pinning down your ideal reader. She not only give advice on how to build your brand, but actionable tasks to find it and understand it. CW, during the las...

We're back with our lovely friend Katerina Stone, to do what we did last time. This time it's about season 3 (the first four episodes). 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 f...

This week's episode, Marty talks with guest author Lauren Connolly about time management.  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 H...

This episode contains little Vingettes of: The Ritual Is Simple, Are You Recording? Marty Outlines her Year Long Plan (this is from february) In Your Heart You Know Second Place Is Losing The Emotional Rollercoaster of Giveaways Canva Punishments Penis Envy but It's Over Book Length In Defense of the Short Stories It Keeps Coming back to Subjectivity  The TV Fascism in Kate's Home Marty...

Marty and Kate are back after a longer than expected haitus, and we're kicking off season 4 the only way we know how-- a long, rambly, conversation about How You Are Doing Enough.  The Highlights: Scapegoat for Kareoke Discovering We're Both Obsessed with Jethro Tull 7 Minutes in We Get On Topic Re-Structuring Marty's Time Writing Is For You Marty's Fantasy Forray  MOM. SAY THA...

Marty and Kate have a special episode for this season finale: reading ~1500 words of their current projects, and then giving critiques to each other.  Warning: Kate says the phrase "lean in" about a hundred times.  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 Ve...

Enjoy this repost! Kate and Marty are feeling the pressure of time and they weren't able to record this week. BUT next week will be the season finale, where they share writing and give criticism. So this episode seemed appropriate.  Come on a journey with Kate and Marty, through the ups and downs of giving and receiving criticism. The Orc from the Office is Kate Prior's latest novella. O...

Kate wrote a prompt for this episode about what it is to dissect the meaning of love over an over again as a romance author, Marty interprets it as a craft question, Kate interprets it as an introspective question. Neither feel like they full answered the prompt.  Read Kate Prior's new-release, Be My Bad Guy , where the superhero's ex girlfriend falls for the supervillain's henchman...