Words and Nerds: Authors, books and literature.

Date With A Debut is a podcast hosted by writer Nick Wasiliev: shining a light on debut authors, their incredible books, and their journeys to publication. This week, I sit down with Sinéad Stubbins to discuss her debut novel, Stinkbug. Enjoy the show? Drop us a review, it really helps the show out! You can also support Date with a Debut on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/nickwasiliev/membershi...

Episode 756. Get ready for a shot of adrenaline with this high octane interview between Dani Vee and Gabe Bergmoser chatting about his new thriller High Rise. They chat about the immediacy of first person present tense and his high stakes meeting with publishing Queen Catherine Milne and how Gabe wrote High Rise without a plan. Gabriel Bergmoser can never write a boring book and nor can he ever gi...

Date With A Debut is a podcast hosted by writer Nick Wasiliev: shining a light on debut authors, their incredible books, and their journeys to publication. This week, I sit down with Daniel Nour to discuss his debut novel, How to Dodge Flying Sandals and Other Advice for Life. Enjoy the show? Drop us a review, it really helps the show out! You can also support Date with a Debut on Patreon: https:/...

Everything I Know About Publishing - Dani Vee and Adam Wallace - Part 2

Date With A Debut is a podcast hosted by writer Nick Wasiliev: shining a light on debut authors, their incredible books, and their journeys to publication. This week, I sit down with Thomas Vowles to discuss his debut novel, Our New Gods. Enjoy the show? Drop us a review, it really helps out! You can also support Date with a Debut on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/nickwasiliev/membership Subsc...

Episode 752: Everything I Know About Publishing with Adam Wallace and Sue Whiting PART 1 🩷 Dani Vee chats to Sue Whiting and Adam Wallace about their journey into publishing. ⭐️ How to start your writing career ⭐️ Dealing with rejection in a positive way ⭐️ Follow the energy ⭐️ Creativity is playing ⭐️ How publishing is always changing ⭐️ Being open to ideas and being easy to work with

Everything I Know About Publishing - TAKEOVER with Deborah Abela, Sarah Armstrong, Lian Tanner and Zanni Louise

Date With A Debut is a podcast hosted by writer Nick Wasiliev: shining a light on debut authors, their incredible books, and their journeys to publication. This week, I sit down with Nadia Mahjouri to discuss her debut novel, Half Truth. Enjoy the show? Drop us a review, it really helps out! You can also support Date with a Debut on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/nickwasiliev/membership Subscr...

Episode 751: Everything I Know About Publishing - a NEW SERIES - focused on what the best in the biz know about publishing 🩷 Today Dani Vee chats to Jacqueline Harvey who has created a long and successful career writing children’s books 🩷 ⭐️ Writing for a changing market ⭐️ How to create a long career as a writer ⭐️ The importance of reading aloud to children ⭐️ How to speak up when you’re a...

Episode 750: Dani Vee and Ashleigh Barton chat about her new picture book Hedgehog or Echidna. They chat about writing a non-fiction picture book, creating great rhyme, and how to publicise your book. They also chat about developing ideas, and they come up with brand new picture book ideas! Listen now!

Dani Vee chats to Nick Croydon, debut author of The Turing Protocol and CEO of QBD Books. They talk about his passion for history, maths and fiction, and how to balance historical facts and fiction. They discuss the 'what if' factor and how this idea could impact the world. Themes of moral ambiguity during wartime is explored, as well as the social issues of the time. Nick tells Dani about what he...

Dani Vee with Ali Berg and Michelle Kalus - Romance tropes, feminism and romance novels, platonic soulmates and Love Overdue

TAKEOVER: Rory H Mather chats to Sarah Speedie, Sharna Carter and Toni D'Alia - Picture Books Special

Dani Vee and Pip Smith - Knowing history, finding empathy and The Pull of the Moon

In this special takeover episode – Kristin Darell and Zena Shapter chat about the pros and pitfalls of writing for different ages. From co-authoring a middle grade book to writing best-selling junior fiction and award-winning YA and adult novels, they discuss how they adjust their writing styles to suit the audience – and each other! What considerations and adjustments do you have to make? How do...

Dani Vee and Ingrid Laguna chat about being kind to yourself, owning who you are, an unreasonable fear of sharks, confessions of a lie they've told, creativity and anxiety, the impact of AI and Edie Tells a Lie.

Dani Vee and George Ivanoff chat about rejections as an established author, dinosaurs and his new book You Choose Mega: Prehistoric Peril

Date With A Debut is a podcast hosted by writer Nick Wasiliev: shining a light on debut authors, their incredible books, and their journeys to publication. This week, I sit down with Madeleine Cleary to discuss her debut novel, The Butterfly Women. WARNING: This book contains intense subject matter. Reader discretion is advised. Enjoy the show? Drop us a review, it really helps out! You can also s...

Dani Vee and Adam Cece go deep into the writing process including The Tension Spring, they discuss underground Adelaide and his new book The Locked Room

Dani Vee, Scott Stuart, James Layton and Zoe Crowest - The Winner of the Scott Stuart Literary Prize

Today I welcome Jacinta Daniher and Taylor Hampton to chat about their beautiful new picture book OUR DANCE illustrated by Janelle Burger. Taylor Hampton is a proud Ngiyampaa/ Wiradjuri man and Jacinta Daniher is an early childhood educator. They both have a passion for educating young people about Aboriginal culture. Our Dance is a joyful celebration of First Nations culture and Australia's uniqu...

Join us for a special Takeover as Date with a Debut host Nick Wasiliev chats with Chrissie Bellbrae about ‘The Florentine Quilt’, crafting story from history, and her generational love of textiles. Buy The Florentine Quilt: https://bit.ly/43mrxBs

NEW SERIES - Ever wanted to get inside the mind of an adult fiction author? This new series spotlights author through a monologue format, where authors take a deep dive into how they wrote their novel, where ideas come from, their challenges and wins, their fears, personal experiences, what it's like working with their publisher, the editing process and more. First up Mark Mupotsa-Russell, author...

Date With A Debut is a podcast hosted by writer Nick Wasiliev: shining a light on debut authors, their incredible books, and their journeys to publication. This week, I sit down with Geoff Parkes to discuss his debut novel, When the Deep, Dark Bush Swallows You Whole. WARNING: This book contains intense subject matter, including instances of abuse and violence. Reader discretion is advised. Enjoy...

Michelle Mitchell and Dani Vee chat about her new book TWEENS. They talk about this time being the most rapid period of development for a child, the difference between concrete and formal thinkers and how we can improve our connections with our tweens. They also chat about screen time, building positive relationships, mental illness and how we're all just trying our best to be the positive adults...