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Welcome to the Episode 124 How Matthew Quick Writes 

Matthew Quick is the New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook—which was made into an Oscar-winning film—and eight other nov…

Welcome to Episode 123 - How Deanna Raybourn Writes

Deanna Raybourn is a 6th-generation native Texan. 

Her novels have been nominated for numerous awards including two RT Reviewers’ Choice awards, the …

Welcome to Episode 122 - How Mur Lafferty Writes

Mur is a podcaster and writer from Durham, NC. She made her name with podcasting (I Should Be Writing, The Angry Robot Podcast, and Escape Pod, the pre…

Welcome to Episode 121 How Alexandra Rowland Writes

Alexandra is the author of several fantasy books, including A Conspiracy Of Truths, A Choir Of Lies, and Some by Virtue Fall, as well as a cohost of…

Welcome to Episode 120 - How Alexis Henderson Writes

Alexis is a speculative fiction writer with a penchant for dark fantasy, witchcraft, and cosmic horror. She grew up in one of America’s most haunte…

Welcome to Episode 119 - How Jamie Ford Writes

In this episode, Jamie and I dive into my current favorite topic - writing and reading dystopia. Jamie and I ponder what pulls us into dystopia, and whet…

Welcome to the How Writers Write Podcast. I am your host, Brian, and today's guest is Belinda Huijuan Tang. 

Belinda is a 2021 graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a Truman Capote Fel…

Welcome to Episode 117 - How Zoe Sivak Writes

Welcome my friends to a fun, power-packed episode with Zoe Sivak. 

Zoe Sivak aims to restore diversity to historical narratives. In her writing, she explor…

Welcome to episode 116 - How Mark Tufo Writes

Mark is an author, former Marine, and father. Mark is the author of multiple series, including the wildly popular Zombie Fallout novels. Mark's books are …

Welcome to episode 114 - How Jennifer Probst Writes

Jennifer is the NYT, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of sexy and erotic contemporary romance. Her book, The Marriage Bargain, …

We're back with Episode 112 - How Janet Burroway Writes 

Janet Burroway is the author of eight novels as well as short fiction, plays, poetry, essays, texts for dance, and children's books. 

She is als…

Welcome to Episode 111, How Deborah Halverson Writes

After 110 episodes, I finally got to interview an author of one of the "For Dummies books." Mission. Accomplish.

Among many other craft books and no…

Welcome to Episode 110 - How Jordan Rosenfeld Writes 

Welcome, my friends, to a wonderful episode with Jordan Rosenfeld. Jordan is a writer, teacher, and coach, as well as the author of many craft wri…

Welcome to episode 109, how Carole Lawrence Writes 

I am so incredibly excited to be back! I took a few months off to rest, get moved, and let my life calm down a bit. And, for the most part, we've se…

Welcome to episode 108 - How J. A. Jance Writes.

Today's returning guest from episode 63 is JA Jance.
J.A. Jance is the New York Times bestselling author of more than 60 novels, including the Ali Reyn…

Welcome to episode 107 - How Maurice Ruffin Writes

Maurice is the author of The Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You, which was published in August 2021. His first book, We Cast a Shadow, was a finalist f…

Welcome to Episode 106 - How Rebecca Ross Writes

Welcome welcome to a special episode with fantasy author Rebecca Ross. Rebecca and I dive into the difference between writing for teens and adults and …