Women Writing

Welcome to the Women Writing podcast. In this episode, I’m taking a coffee break with author and email marketing consultant Holly Darling. Listen to the episode here or watch on YouTube. Holly Darling is the owner of Holly Darling HQ, a business that helps authors create and implement their email marketing strategies to sell more books and build their brand loyalty. She has worked with creative bu...

Welcome to the Women Writing podcast. In this episode, I’m taking a coffee break with author, editor, and ghostwriter Alison McBain. Listen to the episode here or watch on YouTube . Alison McBain ’s human-created novels are the recipients of over 13 awards, including the Foreword INDIES. Her work has been nominated for both Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize, and she was recently shortlisted f...

Welcome to the Women Writing podcast. In this episode, I’m taking a coffee break with literary agent Jes Trudel. Listen to the episode here or watch on YouTube. Jes Trudel is a literary agent with The Rights Factory who was a freelance editor for 15+ years. She is a storytelling instructor who has taught workshops to thousands of people around the world, including as a guest presenter with The Soc...

Welcome to the Women Writing podcast. In this episode, I’m taking a coffee break with author Shelly Sanders. Listen to the episode here, or watch on YouTube. Shelly Sanders is a Canadian author, essayist and former journalist, based in Toronto. She has written five novels including, most recently, The Night Sparrow , (HarperCollins, 2025), a Canadian bestseller about a female Jewish sniper and int...

Welcome to the Women Writing podcast. In this episode, I’m taking a coffee break with author Sadiqa de Meijer. You can listen to the episode here or watch on YouTube . Do you have a writer who deserves writing inspiration and a community of writers this Christmas? Give them a gift subscription to Women Writing! Help them achieve their writing goals this year. Sadiqa de Meijer is the author of the...

Welcome to the Women Writing podcast. In this episode, I’m taking a coffee break with author Merilyn Simonds. Merilyn Simonds is the internationally published author of 22 books, including the novel The Holding , a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and the Canadian classic nonfiction novel, The Convict Lover, a finalist for the Governor General’s Award. Among her best-selling nonfiction...

Welcome to the Women Writing podcast. In this episode, I’m taking a coffee break with author and book coach Natalie Poulson. Natalie Poulson is a writer and a newly certified book coach. She helps women writing historical and speculative fiction who feel stuck in their creative process get their story from their heart, out of their head, and onto the page. She’s a bibliophile, an epistemophile, an...

On Sunday, November 9, I launched Like Water for Weary Souls in Voima Hall at Finlandia Village in Sudbury, Ontario. Thank you to everyone who attended! If you were unable to attend, here’s the recording of my conversation with Emily De Angelis and a reading from the novel. There are so many people to thank! First, thank you to the Ontario Arts Council for their generous support of this novel thro...

Welcome to the Women Writing podcast. In this episode, I’m taking a coffee break with teacher, mentor, and editor Susan Scott. SUSAN SCOTT leads award-winning ventures that veer off the beaten path. Sarah Selecky calls Body & Soul , championing women writers and poets, “a revelation.” A limited edition chapbook led to a 1,000-mile women writers' tour of the American West. Other cross-border collab...

Welcome to the Women Writing podcast. In this episode, I’m taking a coffee break with award-winning poet Callista Markotich. And check out Callista’s Women Writing feature article here. Callista Markotich is a former teacher, principal and Superintendent of Education in Eastern Ontario, living gratefully with Don, her husband of sixty years, on the shore of Lake Ontario in Kingston Ontario, tradit...

Welcome to the Women Writing podcast. In this episode, I’m taking a coffee break with author and book coach Nicole Bross. Nicole Bross is a certified fiction book coach and editor, and the author of both adult and YA genre-blending speculative fiction. Her debut novel, Past Presence (Literary Wanderlust, 2019), an adult supernatural mystery, was a top-three finalist for the Arthur Ellis Award for...

Welcome to the Women Writing podcast. In this episode, I’m taking a coffee break with author Kelly Watt. Check out Kelly’s Women Writing feature here . Kelly Watt’s gritty collection of poetry and prose, The Weeping Degree: How Astrology Saved Me From Suicide , published by Wild Rising Press, was an International Amazon Bestseller and a five-star finalist in The Wishing Shelf Indie Book Awards, U....

Welcome to the Women Writing podcast. In this episode, we’re flipping the script. Today, guest host Caroline Topperman is interviewing me about my new release, Like Water for Weary Souls. Caroline Topperman is a European-Canadian writer, entrepreneur, and world traveler. Born in Sweden, raised in Canada with a recent stint of living in Poland, she holds a BFA in Screenwriting. She is a co-founder...

Welcome to the Women Writing podcast. In this episode, I’m taking a coffee break with writer, editor, and teacher Natalie Morrill . Natalie Morrill is a writer based in Ottawa, Ontario. Her debut novel The Ghost Keeper (HarperCollins Canada 2018) was recognized with the HarperCollins Canada/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction and the Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Fiction, as well as being shortlis...

Welcome to the Women Writing podcast. In this episode, I’m taking a coffee break with award-winning author Danila Botha . Grab a cup of coffee or tea, sit back, and enjoy! Danila Botha is the author of the critically acclaimed short story collections, Got No Secrets, For All the Men (and Some of the Women) I’ve Known, which was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award, The Vine Awards and the ReLit...

Welcome to the Women Writing podcast. In this episode, I’m taking a coffee break with author and book coach Josee Smith . Josee Smith is an indie author and book coach for working moms who want to finish the novel of their dreams. She achieved her childhood dream of finishing a novel and publishing it in 2021, and now she supports other writers with the same dream. As a new mom with a busy job, sh...

Welcome to the Women Writing podcast. In this re-release of Episode 19, I’m taking a coffee break with author, editor, and podcaster Kerry Clare. KERRY CLARE is the author of Asking for a Friend, Waiting for a Star to Fall , and Mitzi Bytes . Her fourth novel will be published in March 2026. A National Magazine Award-nominated essayist and editor of The M Word: Conversations About Motherhood , Ker...

Welcome to the Women Writing podcast. In this episode, I’m taking a coffee break with children’s author Laurie Elmquist. We chat all things board books, picture books, and chapter books and how you might get started writing for children. Laurie Elmquist is the author of several books for children including her most recent board book, Country Baby (Orca Book Publishers, 2024) and upcoming picture b...

Welcome to the Women Writing podcast. In this episode, I take a coffee break with romance writer and book coach Trisha Jenn Loehr. Enjoy this delightful conversation about all things romance. Trisha Jenn Loehr is a romance writer and Author Accelerator certified book coach. She helps busy women who want to write romance novels without guilt or shame prioritize their writing, develop their craft, a...

Welcome to the Women Writing podcast. In this episode, I’m having a chat with author, speaker, and writing coach, Patricia Westerhof. You can read Patricia’s previous Women Writing feature here and check out her book The Canadian Guide to Creative Writing and Publishing. Patricia Westerhof is the award-winning author of The Canadian Guide to Creative Writing and Publishing , Catch Me When I Fall ,...

Welcome to the Women Writing podcast. In this episode, Kim Fahner and I take a coffee break together to chat about her debut novel, her career as a poet, and her work at The Writers’ Union of Canada . Sit back and enjoy our conversation. You can read Kim’s previous feature in Women Writing here . “Every time you work with a book coach, editor, or a publisher, every time you read someone else’s wor...

Welcome to the Women Writing podcast. Grab a cup of coffee and enjoy this rerelease of Season 1, Episode 11 with author and book coach Amy L. Bernstein as we discuss her new book Wrangling the Doubt Monster: Fighting Fears, Finding Inspiration, recently short-listed for the Eric Hoffer Book Award. Amy L. Bernstein is the author, most recently, of Wrangling the Doubt Monster: Fighting Fears, Findin...

Welcome to the Women Writing podcast. In this episode, I’m taking a coffee break with author and book coach Nicole Meier. Nicole Meier is a certified book coach and author of four upmarket novels, including The House of Bradbury , The Girl Made of Clay , The Second Chance Supper Club , and City of Books . Her books have been recognized by Booklist, Refinery29, BookBub, and Popsugar. She hosts The...

Welcome to the Women Writing podcast. In this episode, I’m taking a coffee break with my colleague, author and book coach, Alex Van Tol . Alex Van Tol is the bestselling author of 15 books and an Author Accelerator-certified book coach. She works with writers across genres and at all levels of craft, with particular skill in dialogue and character development. She is also a somatic coach, helping...

Welcome to the Women Writing podcast. In this episode, I’m taking a coffee break with Andi Cumbo, also known as ACF Bookens, the author of the A St. Marins Cozy Mystery Series , Stitches in Crime Series , and several other series, and we chat about pen names, writing series, creativity, and how she gets all the things done. Andi Cumbo lives at the edge of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains with her y...