Authors & Audiences
In Authors & Audiences, YA author and presentation coach Caroline Leech, chats to authors, illustrators, booksellers, librarians, publishers and other randomly fascinating guests, and invites them to share the secrets of their public speaking confidence and their media/social media strategies. Caroline will also share her own extensive knowledge of public speaking, storytelling, event planning and media strategy, so if you want to feel sure you can present yourself and your books with both confidence and professionalism, you’ve come to the right place.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 42 minutes
- Episodes
- 36
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2024
#16 Bestseller Lizzy Dent talks about her transition from writing as "an expensive hobby" to giving up her dayjob
Lizzy Dent is a bestselling women's fiction author. Her first novel for women – The Summer Job - came out in 2021 and her second , The Set Up, came out this year, in 2022. Before her move into adul…
#15 The 2022 Debuts meet the 2023 Debuts - live webinar Part 2
Last weekend, I invited eight amazing authors who had all debuted in 2022 to join me in presenting a free webinar to a gathering of 2023 Debuts. As you may have heard in Part 1 of the webinar, I had …
#14 The 2022 Debuts meet the 2023 Debuts - live webinar Part 1
This weekend, I invited eight amazing authors who had all debuted in 2022 to join me in presenting a free webinar to a gathering of 2023 Debuts. As you’ll hear, I had helped the 22s with a webinar th…
#12 Cathy Berner from Blue Willow Bookshop shares the lowdown on book launches
Cathy Berner qualified as a school librarian up in the frozen north, but very quickly found her way to Texas, where she's been a bookseller at Blue Willow Bookshop in Houston for the last 18 years. S…
#11 - Laurel Goodluck, picture book author, faces the A&A Q&A
Laurel Goodluck is a debut author who writes picture books with modern Native American themes that reflect Native children’s cultural experiences and everyday life, showing Native children that they …
#10 - Laurel Goodluck, debut picture book author talks about celebrating her Native American heritage, and about only doing the social media she enjoys
Laurel Goodluck writes picture books with modern Native American themes that reflect Native children’s cultural experiences and everyday life, showing Native children that they have a perspective tha…
#9 - Newbery Medal winner, Tae Keller, faces the A&A Q&A
In this episode, Tae Keller faces the A&A Q&A, with host, Caroline Leech.
Tae Keller's first book – THE SCIENCE OF BREAKABLE THINGS - was published in 2018, and she then won the 100th Newbery Medal in…
#8 - Tae Keller, the Newbery Medal-winning middle-grade author, talks about the Newbery, stories behind stories, and setting boundaries
Tae Keller's first book – THE SCIENCE OF BREAKABLE THINGS - was published in 2018, and she then won the 100th Newbery Medal in 2021 for her second book, WHEN YOU TRAP A TIGER. This year, Tae has had …
#7 - What could you do if you weren't afraid?
In today's episode, Caroline digs deeper into what we might do to answer the question, "What could I do if I weren't afraid?" following the three basic questions she asked in episode 1, and her conve…
#6 - Bestselling author, Chris Cander, faces the A&A Q&A
Chris Cander is the USA Today bestselling author of THE WEIGHT OF A PIANO, which was named an Indie Next Great Read in both hardcover and paperback and which the New York Times called, “immense, inte…
#5 - Chris Cander, bestselling novelist talks about her neighborhood and combatting stage fright
Chris Cander's latest novel, A GRACIOUS NEIGHBOR, was released in July 2022. She is the USA Today bestselling author of THE WEIGHT OF A PIANO, which was named an Indie Next Great Read in both hardcov…
#4 - Community - what that is and where to find it
In today's episode, Caroline digs deeper into what community means to writers, following her conversation last week with fellow 2017 Debut, Tiffany D Jackson.
In it, she talks about the importance of …
#3 - YA bestseller, Tiffany D Jackson faces the A&A Q&A
Tiffany D. Jackson is the NYT Bestselling, award-winning author of YA novels Monday’s Not Coming, Allegedly, Let Me Hear A Rhyme, Grown, White Smoke, Santa in The City, The Weight of Blood, and co-au…
#2 - Tiffany D Jackson, YA bestseller, talks about community and confidence
Tiffany D. Jackson is the NYT Bestselling, award-winning author of YA novels Monday’s Not Coming, Allegedly, Let Me Hear A Rhyme, Grown, White Smoke, Santa in The City, The Weight of Blood, and co-au…
#1 - EPISODE 1 OF AUTHORS & AUDIENCES - INTRODUCTIONS
In this opening episode of Authors & Audiences, Caroline Leech, introduces her plans for the podcast over the coming week, and takes listeners back to basics by asking three simple but important ques…
Authors & Audiences: the trailer
This is the trailer for the new podcast, Authors & Audiences. Podcaster, YA author and presentation coach, Caroline Leech, introduces her plans for the podcast, which will include interviews with aut…