Words and Nerds: Authors, books and literature.

QWS Podcast S2E12 – Episode Description – Michael Earp S2E12. Queer Writes Session: RWR McDonald with Michael Earp In this episode Rob chats with Michael Earp about their latest anthology, a queer retelling of fairy tales - Everything Under The Moon: Fairy tales in a queerer light. Also, Michael shares their experience of creating anthologies, #loveozya, bookselling and LGBTIQAplus own-voices, and...

Episode 1- NaNoWriMo 2023 Tristan Bancks, Cristy Burne, Adrian Beck and Dani Vee try to get to 50k!

Episode 2 - My First Junior Fiction - Part 2 with Dani Vee I answer your questions from social media and talk about early readers and feedback. Next episode, brutal feedback.

Tania Blanchard and Dani Vee: A Woman of Courage

Welcome to the miniseries hosted by author, podcaster and book fanatic, Nick Wasiliev. This is Date With A Debut: shining a light on debut authors, their incredible books and their journeys to publication. In our eleventh episode, Nick sits down with Meg Vertigan, author of The Strong Dress. They discuss the book, the dark world of experimental medical treatments that still persist to this day, ca...

Dani Vee captures her journey writing her debut junior fiction novel, discussing the challenges of a first draft, getting the voice right, finding the humour an finding your people.

TAKEOVER: Mercedes Mercier and Veronica Lando authors of Black Lies and The Drowning Girls chat about their books and writing.

Sarah Bailey has been tracking her writing progress in real time. We talk structural edits, copy edit and more!

Dani Vee chats to Ngaio Marsh Finalists

What do get when you pair two optimists who wear their hearts on their sleeves? Don't miss this energetic, honest and wild chat between best selling author Trent Dalton and Dani Vee.

Dani Vee speaks to the finalists

629. Trent Dalton and Dani Vee: Love Stories Re-release (Episode 415) One of the most listened to episodes EVER, this re-release is coming out the week before a BRAND NEW episode with Trent Dalton talking about Lola in the Mirror.

In this episode Rob chats with Hayley Scrivenor who gives a master class with incredible writing advice, and generously shares her writing process, how her bestselling, award-winning Dirt Town came to be, the Lambda Literary Awards, and putting the queer into crime fiction. A must listen for all emerging writers! Rob also chats with Grace from Blarney Books & Art in Port Fairy who reviews We Didn’...

As an antique dealer, Athol Salter has peddled in other people’s stories for over sixty years. From humble beginnings in his Junque Shop in country New South Wales in the 1960s to Dirty Janes in the Southern Highlands, he has rummaged through ramshackle huts, dealt with dubious property from deceased estates and cleared grand country properties and crumbling mansions looking for pieces filled with...

Date With A Debut: Suzanne Frankham and Nick Wasiliev - Shadow Over Edmund Street

626. Nathan Luff and Chris Kennett with Dani Vee and Adrian Beck - Family Disasters

Kell Woods and Dani Vee - After the Forest chat about dark fairytales, nostalgia, women in history and writing.

Vanessa McCausland and Dani Vee chat about Vanessa's new novel Dreaming In French. They chat about finding character through writing, travelling the world and how writing changes over time.

In this TAKEOVER superstar Adrian McKinty chats to Alex Dook about his new book The Detective Up Late.

Gabriel Bergmoser and Dani Vee: The Caretaker. If you ever wanted a lesson in crime writing, here it is!

Date With A Debut - Naima Brown and Nick Wasiliev on The Shot

621. Mick Elliott and Dani Vee: Dads and Dogs

620. TAKEOVER: Ky Garvey, Rory H Mather and Zewlan Moor

In this episode we chat about Amal Awad’s new book Bitter & Sweet. We also chat about the idea that: ⭐️ we are always coming of age, ⭐️ how we continue to lose and find ourselves, ⭐️ carrying the past, ⭐️ getting in your own way, ⭐️ appearance of a good life, ⭐️ liking yourself, ⭐️ what sustains you, ⭐️ food fiction and its cultural weight, ⭐️ the fragility of relationships, ⭐️ the expec...

TAKEOVER: Debra Tidball and Katrina Roe - Picture Books