Two Writers, Many Wrongs

Maddy and Abigail sit down with Meredith Lavender and Kendall Shores authors of Happy Wife . Meredith and Kendall discuss their journey from deciding to write a book together to working on their sophomore novel. Their new book Perfect Life is out now.

Jake Kyer returns to discuss querying with Maddy and Abigail. They give updates on their querying journey, discuss concerns about AI, and talk about navigating genre labels.

Maddy and Abigail chat about making connections. They discuss their experience forming connections and how their connections have helped them in their lives.

Maddy and Abigail chat about developing characters. They chat about some of their favorite tools to help them with characters and how the make characters in their own work.

Maddy and Abigail chat about finding joy in writing and in life during these unprecedented times. They chat about radical hope, the hard work you have to put in to find joy, and the ways they are avoiding joy.

Maddy and Abigail chat about common pieces of writing advice that they had to unlearn over the years. They chat about the five paragraph essay, "said is dead", and what it means to finish a project.

Maddy and Abigail reflect on the past two years, chatting about what the new year has in store and their favorite lessons from their podcast guests in 2025.

Maddy and Abigail sit down with Jandy Nelson author of The Sky is Everywhere , I'll Give You the Sun , and When the World Tips Over . Jandy shares her journey as a writer from poet to having one of her books adapted into a movie.

Maddy and Abigail sit down with Jane Rodriguez owner of the romance-only bookstore New Romantics located in Orlando, Florida. Jane shares her journey of becoming a bookstore owner.

Maddy and Abigail sit down with Jennifer Lyn Parsons the editor-in-chief of Luna Station Quarterly. JP talks about her personal journey as a writer and about running a literary magazine.

Maddy and Abigail sit down with Bethany Jacobs author of The Kindom Trilogy. Bethany shares her writing journey from writing novitiate to a fully fledged cleric. The third book in The Kindom Trilogy This Brutal Moon is out December 2nd.

Maddy and Abigail have done what they thought was impossible: they wrote a novel. In this episode, they chat about how you write a novel from conception to the finished draft.

In their back to basics series, Maddy and Abigail chat about fundamental craft elements. This episode they chat about the importance of settings and how you to put setting onto the page.

Maddy and Abigail chat about the hard truths they've discovered about being a writer. They chat about the performative pressure of social media and the idealized version of being a writer and open up about the struggles in their writing lives.

Maddy and Abigail chat about the different methods available for writers to publish book length projects from self-publishing to traditional presses.

Maddy and Abigail sit down with Paige Lavoie author of the Mothman in Love series and Dear Galaxy. Paige shares her writing journey from web comics to published author.

Hear from Rhiannon Fisher about her personal journey as a writer and her work as a co-founder and fiction editor for the online literary magazine Silly Goose Press.

Maddy and Abigail sit down with Claire Lombardo author of Same As It Ever Was and The Most Fun We Ever Had. Claire shares her writing journey from grad student to best seller.

Josh and Michael join Maddy and Abigail on this very special episode where the boys discuss what it's like being married to a writer.

Maddy and Abigail talk about the lessons about writing they wish they could go back and tell their younger selves.

Hear from Lexi Rosen about her journey as both a writer of both fiction and poetry and as a co-founder of the online literary magazine Silly Goose Press.

Maddy and Abigail speak with literary agent Michaela Whatnall. The three of them cover topics ranging from what it's like being an agent to the components of a successful query letter.

Maddy and Abigail talk about their experience at the Associations of Writers and Writing Programs Conference (AWP) 2025. They discuss the panels they went to and share some of the advice they got as well as their overall take on the conference as a whole.

Maddy and Abigail speak with author Taylor Simonds. The three of them discuss the writing craft and Taylor's journey as an author.

Maddy and Abigail talk about the upcoming Associations of Writers and Writing Programs Conference 2025. They discuss their previous experience at the conference as well as their hopes and dreams for this year's conference.