Writers Behaving Badly Podcast

On this episode of Writers Behaving Badly:  Annie’s still on a break and Lisa and Brooke are joined by guests Anne Freeman and Casey Nott. Brooke asks the panel, “What makes the perfect author talk?” and is met with some excellent advice from the authors. Plus: Anne spills some personal tea! What You’ll Learn: How to generate author events Ways to make yourself irresistible to event organisers How...

On this episode of Writers Behaving Badly : Annie's on a break and Lisa and Brooke are joined by guest host Kerryn Mayne. The crew is gaining momentum on their writing goals (as are our fabulous write-alongers) and inching closer to finished manuscripts. Kerryn and Lisa debate a top US Agent's writing advice (don't submit too early) and Kerryn confesses to being rejected by the same agent (and tel...

On this episode of Writers Behaving Badly : Brooke’s manuscript is in the hot seat with feedback from Lisa. The crew are smashing their own different writing goals (and we get a look at Brooke’s incredible typing speed). We share our book recommendations (controversy?) and Brooke spills the tea on embarrassing herself at a recent author event for Casey Nott book launch! What You'll Learn: What it...

On this episode of Writers Behaving Badly : Brooke’s manuscript finally gets a name and we are squealing at it! Lisa and Annie find wins amongst the chaos and why editing your manuscript can sometimes feel like cutting a bad fringe… Our write-along crew are smashing their writing goals and vibing off each other’s word counts (hello, accountability!)…we’re looking at you Athena writing an entire sh...

On this episode of Writers Behaving Badly : Brooke, Lisa and Annie tackle the heavy vibes of 2026 with podcasting joy and a new format. We’re folding in the cheese for our new segment (please leave a comment to help us give it a title), getting inspo at the traffic lights (hello, motorcycle man 👋) and writing through the horrors that are modern life. Plus: We discuss some truly unhinged writing a...

On this episode of Writers Behaving Badly : Brooke, Lisa and Annie tackle the heavy vibes of 2026 with podcasting joy and a new format. We’re folding in the cheese for our new segment (please leave a comment to help us give it a title), getting inspo at the traffic lights (hello, motorcycle man 👋) and writing through the horrors that are modern life. Plus: We discuss some truly unhinged writing a...

This week on Writers Behaving Badly : It’s the season two finale! Annie, Brooke, and Lisa wrap up a year of literary chaos with bread, burnout, and breakthroughs. Lisa digs deep for one final curly question and Brooke delivers the Footballer’s Baby conception scene…(almost)… Plus: The knitting community comes for Hank Green in a thread war for the ages… What You'll Learn: The difference between a...

This week on Writers Behaving Badly : We’re back with New York Times bestselling author Sally Hepworth for Part Two of our rollicking chat. Sally dishes on the realities of social media (hint: don’t waste time building a platform before you’ve written the book), resilience in the face of one-star reviews, and the myth-busting advice every aspiring author needs to hear. She also spills some tea on...

This week on Writers Behaving Badly : It’s our very first live, in-person episode —recorded in Sydney with questionable tech, maximum chaos, and at least one snort that may or may not become a sound effect. Brooke fights through a new-job writing slump, Lisa produces her award-winning early manuscript for listening pleasure and Annie gets distracted by a 90s inspired dream. There’s a dramatic read...

This week on Writers Behaving Badly : Season Two kicks off with triple wins! Brooke discovers the power of horny ghosts, Lisa finds her character voice (and an accountability partner who doesn't mess around), and Annie reclaims her historical heroine's agency. Plus, we debut Brooke's very first novel—complete with mysterious football jerseys and a dubious hall-of-fame. What You'll Learn: How to mo...

This week on Writers Behaving Badly : We’re back with New York Times bestselling author Sally Hepworth for Part Two of our rollicking chat. Sally dishes on the realities of social media (hint: don’t waste time building a platform before you’ve written the book), resilience in the face of one-star reviews, and the myth-busting advice every aspiring author needs to hear. She also spills some tea on...

This week on Writers Behaving Badly : We welcome New York Times bestselling author Sally Hepworth! She joins us to chat about her incredible career, from the book that changed everything ( The Mother-in-Law ) to billboard moments in Bourke Street Mall, optioned screen adaptations, and why resilience beats luck every time. She also confesses to once dictating Lisa’s plotting process with a stack of...

This week on Writers Behaving Badly : The hosts sin in varying degrees (and one of them blames it on their husband 👀). Brooke dusts off her shiny flirtation of a manuscript, Bad Boy Lessons and is given Lisa’s toughest roast yet. We tackle a curly question on story complexity versus depth and spill the tea on a Bookstagrammer who admitted to pirating books… Plus: Hotel hijinks, write-along confes...

This week on Writers Behaving Badly : We interview the incredible and hilarious Tess Woods about her publishing journey (and why she almost quit for good…). Seriously she wrote her first novel in three days! The collective writing vibes were buzzing at write-along and we delivered a room full of winners and Tess spills part two of her embarrassing publishing encounters… This week’s write-along win...

This week on Writers Behaving Badly : Lisa smashes through her word count goal and we all feel confident this book is going to get finished, Brooke unleashes the horniest ghost in literary history, and Annie gets lost in falconry research (spoiler: no actual falcon purchased…yet). We debate whether prologues are brilliant or pointless fluff, dive deeper on publishing pay, and hear how bestselling...

This week on Writers Behaving Badly : Lisa smashes through her word count goal and we all feel confident this book is going to get finished, Brooke unleashes the horniest ghost in literary history, and Annie gets lost in falconry research (spoiler: no actual falcon purchased…yet). We debate whether prologues are brilliant or pointless fluff, dive deeper on publishing pay, and hear how bestselling...

This week on Writers Behaving Badly : We wrap our very first Badly Behaved Write-Along with zero sinners and a podium full of winners. Brooke hypes strangers for cash (yes, really), Lisa steam-trains past 50k words, and Annie survives strict homework and a new fringe. We’re also joined by bestselling author Kylie Orr who spills on the seven-year slog to her debut and why “show, don’t tell” is terr...

This week on Writers Behaving Badly : Season Two kicks off with triple wins! Brooke discovers the power of horny ghosts, Lisa finds her character voice (and an accountability partner who doesn't mess around), and Annie reclaims her historical heroine's agency. Plus, we debut Brooke's very first novel—complete with mysterious football jerseys and a dubious hall-of-fame. What You'll Learn: How to mo...

In this week’s bonus episode of Writers Behaving Badly : It’s the full, un-cut interview with Rachael Johns covering the highs and lows of the publishing industry, imposter syndrome and so much more. Whether you’re a reader or a writer, there is so much to take away from this chat with Rach! Season Two of Writers Behaving Badly returns on 9th August 2025. This is a public episode. If you'd like to...

This week on Writers Behaving Badly : Annie cries into her keyboard and calls it kink, Brooke rewrites her way out of despair, Lisa almost writes (Word is open!), and we all lose our minds over a listener’s first page. Also: AI in publishing—is it the end of craft as we know it? What You'll Learn: How to craft a first page that grips and devastates The emotional tools to write through chaos Why gr...

This week on Writers Behaving Badly : Annie cries into her keyboard and calls it kink, Brooke rewrites her way out of despair, Lisa almost writes (Word is open!), and we all lose our minds over a listener’s first page. Also: AI in publishing—is it the end of craft as we know it? What You'll Learn: How to craft a first page that grips and devastates The emotional tools to write through chaos Why gr...

This week, Kelly Rimmer joins the pod to chat imposter syndrome and drops some truth bombs for aspiring writers, Brooke and Annie face off over trigger warnings, Annie reads her words and Lisa recommends a cozy cat game. Got a sin to confess? Tell us your worst writing sin of the week in the comments—did you out-bad us? Leave a comment What’s inside this episode? 🔥 Sins & Wins – Sinners and winne...

This week, Lisa fesses up to making her debut (pics below), Brooke wants to know why her manuscript hates her then proceeds to read a breathtaking passage, Lisa answers a curly question and Kylie Orr fesses up! Did we all just…win??? You’ll have to listen to find out. Brooke has a very relatable editing moment but then proceeds to knock it out of the park with her feedback. Lisa explains how to kn...

This week, Lisa gives you a free pass to watch TV, Brooke gets tongue-tied interviewing our guest Ella Ward and has a pre-prepared tea rant that SLAPS. Two of us are in the sin bin, one of us delivers words while the other two hype her up like she’s famous, one of us has her dreams come true by becoming an Ella Ward and Lisa Ireland sandwich and delivers a pre-prepared tea rant that scolds genre s...

This week, things get weirdly sexual. One of us ghosts an agent (for five years), one of us confesses to writing nothing (again), and one of us accidentally turns a homicide detective into a Renaissance actor. There’s also drone footage, shame spirals, and the most unexpected sex metaphor ever uttered on a writing podcast (thanks, Lisa.) It’s chaotic. It’s unhinged. It’s exactly the kind of writin...