Write the Book, Play the Game

Hello, authors! Welcome to Episode 6 of Write the Book, Play the Game, a podcast about the business of being an author. In the final installment of Season 1, we’re again sharing ground-tested insights and strategies from our years in the midlist trenches. This week, we’re sharing the strategies and hacks that make our lives as professional authors manageable. We’ll discuss… * How we juggle writing...

Hello, friends! Welcome to episode 5 of Write the Book, Play the Game, a podcast about the business of being an author. We’re once again revealing everything we wish we knew when we started out as tiny baby authors at Big 5 publishers and have learned along the way. In the penultimate episode of Season 1, we’re discussing the author-agent relationship —one of the most important partnerships in you...

Welcome to Episode 4 of Write the Book, Play the Game, a podcast about the business of being an author! We’re once again revealing everything we wish we knew when we started out as tiny baby authors at Big 5 publishers and have learned along the way. This week, we’re chatting about finding and leveraging your author community (aka your group chat). We’ll discuss… * The #1 mistake authors make in g...

Welcome to Episode 3 of Write the Book, Play the Game, a podcast about the business of being an author! We’re once again spilling everything we’ve learned in our cumulative decades as professional trad-published authors. This week, in what’s sort of a Part 2 to last week’s episode (about how our zany industry survives and thrives), we’re delving deeper into the data you can (and should!) obtain ab...

Welcome to Episode 2 of Write the Book, Play the Game, a podcast about the business of being an author! We’re once again getting candid (some might say: too candid) about the business savvy we’ve picked up in our cumulative decades as professional authors. This week, we’re diving headfirst into (what sometimes feels like) this dumpster-fire of an industry. We’ll discuss… * What publishers really t...

Welcome to the inaugural episode of Write the Book, Play the Game, a podcast about the business of being an author! We’re authors Andrea Bartz & Gretchen Schreiber , and over the next few weeks, we’ll be pulling back the curtain on our own experiences in decades of trad publishing, sharing everything we’ve learned about building sustainable careers. There are plenty of great podcasts out there add...