The Chosen Ones and Other Tropes
Bookish, writer friends Jamie, Melissa and Naomi talk about their favourite tropes, their least favourite tropes and everything in between!
* Naomi Gibson [https://www.naomigibsonwrites.com/], author of Every Line of You, Game Over Girl
* Melissa Welliver [https://melissawelliver.com/], author of The Undying Tower, My Love Life and the Apocalypse
* Jamie Greenwood [https://www.writeandwrong.co.uk/], creator & host of the Write and Wrong Podcast
Music courtesy of Lud and Schlatts Musical Emporium [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFbtXFIaAJ0fOtgyeDs8Jog]
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 49 minutes
- Episodes
- 39
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
S4.E8 - Children's Publishing ft. Philip Kavvadias
Middle grade author, Philip Kavvadias is here to chat about some of the publishing myths and struggles within children's books.
- Naomi Gibson, author of Every Line of You, Game Over Girl
- Melissa Wel…
S4.E7 - The Second Novel and Post-Publication Blues
This episode is about that moment when the marketing cycle is over and the dust has started to settle on the publication of your debut novel. What happens next?
- Naomi Gibson, author of Every Line of…
S4.E6 - Getting Paid as an Author after Publication
It's all numbers and percentages this week as Naomi and Melissa walk us through the financial breakdown of publishing a novel from the authors point of view.
- Naomi Gibson, author of Every Line of Yo…
S4.E5 - Book launches, Marketing and Publicity
Melissa and Naomi walk us through everything they learned and experienced with the releases of the debut novels and reflect on how differently they approach the publicity and marketing of their books…
S4.E4 - Signing a Book Deal
Naomi and Melissa compare notes about their first book deals and are surprised at how different some of their experiences were.
- Naomi Gibson, author of Every Line of You, Game Over Girl
- Melissa Wel…
S4.E3 - Going on Submission with an Agent
In this one we're chatting about what happens between signing with an agent and going out on submission to try and secure a book deal.
- Naomi Gibson, author of Every Line of You, Game Over Girl
- Meli…
S4.E2 - Finding an Agent
We're back with more publishing myths and this week it's all about literary agents.
- Naomi Gibson, author of Every Line of You, Game Over Girl
- Melissa Welliver, author of The Undying Tower, My Love …
S4.E1 - Writing Your First Manuscript
This season, we're diving into the many myths and tropes of publishing a novel. From inception to writing, to querying agents, working with editors, and all the way through to publication. We're cove…
S3.E10 - New Adult or maybe Crossover
On this season finale we are jumping in on the much discussed topics of new adult and crossover, what they mean and where they fit into the publishing spectrum.
- Naomi Gibson, author of Every Line of…
S3.E9 - Sports Romance
This was a fun one! None of us have much experience with this genre and so it was a massive learning curve but I think it might have inspired us to pick up some Ice Hockey romance!
- Naomi Gibson, au…
S3.E8 - Cosy Crime & Fantasy
Jamie and Melissa are loving the rise of cosy genres at the moment and get into some really fun tropes in this one, whilst Naomi wrestles with how wholesome it all is!
- Naomi Gibson, author of Every …
S3.E7 - Psychological Thrillers
Naomi takes point on this one telling us all about one of her absolute favourites, the Unreliable Narrator. Jamie and Melissa try to chip in as well.
- Naomi Gibson, author of Every Line of You, Game …
S3.E6 - Paranormal Romance
Some Harry Potter follow up at the start and then we jump into some familiar tropes in the fun genre fusion of paranormal romance!
- Naomi Gibson, author of Every Line of You, Game Over Girl
- Melissa …
S3.E5 - Contemporary Fantasy
Fantasy is in a fascinating spot right now with romantasy being more popular than ever and Brandon Sanderson breaking crowdfunding records left and right, so on this episode we jump into what has bec…
S3.E4 - Crime and Mystery
This week we're onto crime and mystery tropes, so it's all detectives, law enforcement and being trapped together!
- Naomi Gibson, author of Every Line of You, Game Over Girl
- Melissa Welliver, author…
S3.E3 - Romantasy Tropes
Continuing the theme of the season, this episode we each pick a romantasy trope! If you want a deeper dive on each of these we did an entire 10 run season dedicated to romantasy.
- Naomi Gibson, autho…
S3.E2 - Horror Tropes
This season we are going to pick our favourite tropes from the genres that we discussed and think might be popular this year in publishing. First up, our favourite horror tropes!
- Naomi Gibson, autho…
S3.E1 - Publishing Trend Predictions for 2024
We're back and we're kicking off the year with some predictions for what we think is going to be popular in the world of writing, books and publishing for 2024! Shoutout to our friends over at the Wr…
S2.E10 Trope Tier List 2
To wrap up our second season, the loosely romance themed one, we're going back to the tier list. Tune in for lots of arguing about which trope goes where and whether we agree with where we put some o…
S2.E9 - Forced Proximity
Making two characters who would never otherwise spend time together is always a great recipe for conflict and intrigue, but there is a pretty intense dark-side to this one.
- Naomi Gibson, author of E…