The Secret Library Podcast
The Truth about Writing Books.
- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 45 minutes
- Episodes
- 278
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
#67 Scott Stabile on the Rawness of Real Life
There are many books out there that share life advice. There are whole sections in bookstores dedicated to this sort of book. But I have not encoun…
#66 Kim Krans August Archive Episode
#65 Susan Orlean August Archive Episode
#64 V.E. Schwab August Archive Episode
#63 Natashia Deon August Archive Episode
#62 Sarah Selecky August Archive episode
We've all been there: podcast bankruptcy. Having so many episodes stacked up in the queue to listen that it feels like the only way to proceed is to give up, delete everything and start over.
Not to …
#61 Kameron Hurley on the Feminist Geek Revolution
The first thing I noticed about Kameron Hurley is how incredible her laugh is. She has a laugh that dares you not to join in, to enjoy the conversation and what she has …
#60 Megan Hannum goes Draft by Draft
Have you ever been writing away, actually building some momentum in your writing only to have these sorts of fears creep in: "I…
#59 J. Ryan Stradal explores the Middle
Most often, we hear from writers right when their book has just come out. They go on book tours and radio shows and NPR, if…
#58: Dal Kular on being at the beginning of the writing process
After recording nearly sixty episodes of The Secret Library, I realized I had a full catalogue of interviews with experts. People who were at the end o…
#57 Wesley Brown on Dialogue, Fiction, and Jazz
Wesley Brown knows dialogue and he knows jazz. His latest collection of stories, Dance of the Infidels, brings th…
#56 Doree Shafrir on Startup and Satire
This is immediately obvious when reading her first novel, Startup, out now and gracing more and more must-read lists every week. It's laugh out loud funny as w…
#55 Autumn Witt Boyd Demystifies Book Contracts
Thanks to Autumn coming on the show, this doesn't have to be a terrifying process. Every writer who has come on the show has emph…
#54 Manjula Martin on Getting Paid as a Writer
She gets to the heart of the matter: why don't writers get paid like other professions? Why does everyone expect to read content for free or very little money these days? …
#53 Jade Chang on Where Fiction and Real Life Collide
This is just one of the many miraculous things about her. While the rest of us were running around like maniacs and freaking out, Ja…
#52 Bari Tessler on the Price of Publishing
But first, a moment to celebrate! As we reach episode 52, we come back to the very first guest who ever came on the s…
#51 Ruby Warrington on Material Girl Mystical World
I adored Ruby Warrington even before we spoke. I knew we would be kindred spirits because she admitted in her book that her power lipstick was MAC La…
#50 Natalie Obando and the Mysteries of Good PR
PR is one of those topics that seems to scare writers to death. It feels like the most extroverted part of writing, and the o…
#49 Rob Cohen & Christine Roth Revolutionize Publishing
But watching the explosion of content that eBooks and self-publishing has created, the couple realized that good books weren't getting …
#48 Madelyn Kent Unlocks Writers Block with the Body
For many of us who write, we spend a lot of time up in our heads. We might even pend most of our time in our heads. Since writers are making u…