Things Change

In today’s episode I am talking to the phenomenal Chloe Caldwell. She is the author of Women a now queer cult novella, the essay collections I’ll Tell You In Person (2016), The Red Zone (2022), and Legs Get Led Astray (2012) and her latest book Trying, which I am very excited to talk about. I literally finished reading it this week while on the tram to work and people must have thought there was a...

In today's episode I talk to the fantastic Abigail Bergstrom. Working in publishing for over fifteen years as a novelist, editor and literary agent, she's shepherded almost forty books onto bestseller lists and has built some of today’s biggest book brands.  She was nominated for ‘Literary Agent of the Year’ at the British Book Awards 2020 and was listed in “The Bookseller 150” which names the boo...

In today’s episode I am talking to Kailey Brennan DelloRusso. She is an author, writing coach, and the founder of Write or Die Magazine. A platform that helps writers with drafting, navigating the publishing world, and storytelling.  I know Kailey because you’ve invited me about a year ago to your podcast In the Weeds, where you talk to writers and creative people who used to or are still working...

In today’s episode I am talking to the phenomenal Cat Pierce, who is one of those multi hyphenate people that are quite hard to put a definitive label on: you’re primarily known as a singer &  songwriter and one half of The Pierces a band you started with your sister, but you’re also a painter, entrepreneur in various ways and most recently you have gathered  huge momentum on Instagram. Which...

Today’s guest is the wonderful essayist and poet Amy Key, whose memoir Arrangements in Blue about her life as a single woman for the past 20 years, has touched so many people since it came out in 2023. I remember walking to the bookshop on publication day because I already knew that it was going to be one of those books, that I wouldn’t say: change the way you see the world but rather those books...

This is a special solo episode where I talk about the 10 things that radically shifted my life for the better. Featuring the launch of my new book Things That Are Different Now. Which you can order here: https://www.museletterpublishing.com

In today’s episode I am talking to the very very cool Elle Nash. Elle is a writer, editor and lecturer who has published multiple novels over the last decade.  Her debut novel, Animals Eat Each Other was kind of a surprise indie success, in 2018, it was featured in The Oprah Magazine and praised by Publishers Weekly as a “complex, impressive exploration of obsession and desire.”  She’s since then...

In today’s episode I am talking to the magical  Morvern Graham. Morvern is a printmaker, illustrator and storyteller, who is currently growing a huge following on social media with her incredible storytelling videos of Scottish and Scandinavian folklore that intertwine mythology, her own visual art building a connection with her surroundings and the seasons. I saw Morvern perform here in Edinburgh...

Today’s guest is the marvellous Megan Nolan, a journalist, essayist and author of two novels called Acts Of Desperation and Ordinary Human Failings. I remember reading Acts of Desperation which is a book about a pretty harrowing toxic romantic relationship and the reason why I remember it so well, is because when it came out, I was in a toxic relationship myself and I didn’t want to read it. And t...

In today's episode I am talking-to the wonderful Fariha Róisín. Fariha is a multidisciplinary artist born in Canada, raised in Australia and now based in Los Angeles, California. They're a Muslim queer Bangladeshi interested in the margins, liminality, otherness, and the mercurial nature of being. They're the author of the poetry collections, How to Cure a Ghost and Survival Takes A Wild Imaginati...

In today’s episode I am talking to the hilarious Will McPhail whose cartoons are frequently published in The New Yorker. He wrote an incredibly beautiful graphic novel called IN about a twenty something guy called Nick who the girlies on TikTok would call emotionally unavailable but who is desperately trying to change, trying to connect.  He‘s amassed a huge following on instagram, @willmcphail4 w...

A podcast where writer and multi-disciplinary artist Sophia Hembeck talks to writers, artists and other creative people about their pivotal life-changing moments, their successes, their setbacks and in general how they ended up in the life they're living today. How do we change? What makes us unstuck? How can we elicit the change that we so desperately crave in our lives sometimes?  Show notes...