Best Authors Marty Vee and Kate Prior Podcasts (2025)

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REPOST: Are You Happy About the Stress You Have? 59:02

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Kate has been working hard on our next episode of this season, but the silly file is causing her trouble. So, enjoy this repost, and know that we'll have a conversation with Katie of Cheap Smut Podcast just as soon as we can! This episode, Marty and Kate talk about: The Outside Is Attacking Us (Allergies) Marty Isn't DNFing Out of Spite Marty F's A…

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40,000 Words Before A Single Kiss 44:18

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The Highlights Take One Was Just Primal Screaming For A Bit The Problem With Looking Back At Where You Were Marty's Had A Year Pondering On Setbacks Reminding Yourself Of The Marathon What Is the Next Thing That's Going to Make Me Happy, In This Process? Kate Hasn't Forgotten That One File She Lost 10 Years ago Edits Lost to the Ether Some Chapters…

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108: The Most Adhd Conversation Ever 59:54

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The Highlights: AI Dogwhistles Testimonial Marketing Fucking Ai Invading Every Facet Of Our Lives AND FOR WHAT Accutely Aware of Perception Being Affected By Mood Dissecting "If You Don't Enjoy Writing It, Will Readers Enjoy Reading It" I Don't Need It To Be Imperfect It's Kinda Your Fault, Kate Long And Winding Thought about the Dunning-Kruger Eff…

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107: Envision Your Last Breath 1:07:20

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The Highlights: Nintendogs Wasn't Real Proof That You're Funny Andrew Could Do Heart Surgery, Probably Fear of A Free Chair Marty's Soliloquy The Quit Your Dayjob Gremlin Comes Back Not Everyone's Goals Are Your Goals Don't Forget That Roxie Noir Can Parallel Park Kate Mumbles About Refridgerator Tastes And Someday, You'll Take Your Last Breath Kat…

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106: Hot Potato Braincell 49:10

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Order Kate Prior's new-release, Mated to My Ex! (Divorced fated mates, werewolves, knotting, all the good stuff.) Marty Vee's newest book Hazel and Elijah Find Out is now available. Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get Hazel and Elijah Don't Get Caucht for free! You can find Kate on threads @bykateprior and Instagram @bykateprior an…

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105: Everything Book Event Prep 46:04

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By Authors Marty Vee and Kate Prior

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104: Totally Tonally 53:24

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The Highlights: Boob Assisted Device Don't Take That Tone With Me, Book Genre-Specific Writing Advice, Revisited Parallel Rails They Don't Know They're Sitting On Memory Foam The Cliche is There Because It's A Delight Marty Recommends 7 Figure Fiction for the 1000th Time Forearms, You Little Slut Playing 4D Chess with My Psyche A Quick Moral Crisis…

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103: The Quit-Your-Dayjob Gremlin 49:30

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The Highlights: We've Been Corny the Whole Time Your Woo Stuff is Different from My Woo Stuff Factually Correct Jokes Are Always Funnier 2025 Bingo Resolutions Book Release Fomo One 150k Word Book VS Three 50k Word Books Kate's Theory About Genre-Specific Writing Advice To Monologue Or Not To Monologue Lemme Off the Leash Boss The Seed Oils Thing I…

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102: The Shoot Yourself In the Foot Machine 40:23

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The Highlights: Get Your Vitamin D Books Finally Getting Titles The Worst Draft Marty's Ever Written It Can Have A Bad Ending The First Time Around No Citations, Thank You The Narratives We Spin For Ourselves Brains Suck, Man (Still Better than AI, Though) Tonally Off-Putting Andrew Could Not Land a 747 Knowing Your Characters: Before or After the …

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101: That's Almost a Whole Book 43:53

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The Highlights: Weirdly Aggressive Towards Other Kates I Love It But I Hate It Dish Towel Scootin' Working Out Timeline Issues On Air Coming Back to a Project You've Grown Out Of Dynamic Vs Static Scenes (Things Should Happen In Stories, Duh) We Spend A Lot of Time On Camera Angles as Metaophor for Storytelling Time As One of the Best Editing Tools…

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100: Character-Driven Dirty Talk 50:53

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The Highlights: Mushrooms, Menoras, Gnomes January is Too Short, Actually Year Long Calender...2!!! Not Kool Aid Man Shenanigans The Fear of "No One Would Actually Say That" Sexy is, Unforuntately, Subjective Dan Rathers Based Dirty Talk He Only Talks in The Bedroom (Marty's Pet Peeve) I Don't Think He's Earned "Daddy" Privileges Experiencing The S…

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99: Writing Advice You Can Throw Away 1:05:19

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This episode was recorded back in January, but Kate ADHD'd for like 6 months straight, in true Kate fashion. We're so back. But writing advice has no expiration date! (Or does it?) Here's the highlights: Try Writing A Different Way Than You Normally Do Under 200 Words That Made Me Angry Break Rules For Good Reasons Not Everyone Should Write Like Yo…

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98: To-Do Lists ABOUND (Season Finale) 47:57

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This year's Finale Episode, we've looked at each other and tried to imagine what we want to see what directions we want to see each other's writing journeys and author careers go. Order Kate Prior's new-release, Mated to My Ex! (Divorced fated mates, werewolves, knotting, all the good stuff.) Marty Vee's newest book Hazel and Elijah Find Out is now…

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97: You're Not Putting a Hat on That Hat 53:21

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The Highlights: I'm Being Productive, I Promise Kate Rambles for 5 Minutes to Tell You She's Working On Something New Does Anyone Read Anthologies? Just The Marty Party On Rushing Endings The Itty Bittiest of Problems Wigged Out By Happiness Grab Five Pages and Flip All of Then Bringing Back the Idea of Making Characters Fail Flashing A Nipple, Eig…

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96: This Episode Is Just For Kate to Sound Out Plot Problems 51:30

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TW: Rabies, Bites, Shots The Highlights: Edits Back from Heathitor Marty Just Keeps Writing (Overshot by 40k Words) No One Thinks They Like Second Chance Romances Grounding Marty From 2nd Chance Romances The Same Kiss Ten Times Over Kate Spoils The Rest of Her Next Book While Soundboarding Some Issues With It Can't Escape the Workplace Romance Kate…

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95: Friends Enable Each Other's Hyperfixations 39:18

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The Highlights: East Coasters Are Weird About Fall Treating Plot Like the Steel Armature Holding Up These Twelve Raccoons In a Trenchcoat Marty's Been Doing Things Babies' First Real Romance Novels We Pretend We're Gonna Talk About MFA's for A Second Kate's Once Again Trying to Learn Animation Friends Enable Each Other's Hyperfixations Identifying …

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94: Repetition, Social Media, and Tri-Pronged Strategy 46:40

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The Highlights: There are No Right Directions, but There are Wrong Ones The Suspense of Writing Goodreads Review Sheild for Authors You Don't Have to Top the Last Thing You Did Every Time Telling the Same Joke In Ten Different Ways In Marketing You Don't Need to Reinvent the Wheel Every Time Saying Something Besides "Buy My Book" ADHD'd Too Close t…

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93: Heather, Editing, and Everything Else 58:10

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Marty and Kate bring Heather the Editor (Spellboundedits) on the show to talk about last minute edits, both sides of the process, how to find a qualified editor, and everything else they can think of. Order Kate Prior's new-release, Mated to My Ex! (Divorced fated mates, werewolves, knotting, all the good stuff.) Marty Vee's newest book Hazel and E…

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92: Erasing the Words on The Whiteboard of My Brain 51:05

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The Highlights Include: Insert Yourself with Some Fanfiction When You're Unsatisfied with Your Happy Ending (That's What She Said) How To Make Friends Online That Guy At the Concert Who SUCKED Bring Something You Love to the Table Yes Kate Has Shared This Thought Before (I'm So Sure This Loop Thing Was On Last Week's Episode Too) Marty's Most Produ…

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91: The Try-Fail Cycle Is Actually A Good Thing 48:02

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The Highlights: The Novelty of Finishing Things On Time Social Media Calendar Software Characters Failing Makes them More Interesting Try-Fail Cycles The Inevitable Unlikeable Heroine Trap Continuing to Beat This Cart Before the Horse Elijah Was Never A Bad Boy Order Kate Prior's new-release, Mated to My Ex! (Divorced fated mates, werewolves, knott…

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90: You're Just Gonna Have to Go Get the Horse 52:26

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The Highlights: Getting Vaguely Technical About Air Conditioning Weekly Reminder Kate is Bad at Math It (Was) Too Dang Hot When Did 40k Words Get In Here The Book You Envision at the Start VS the Book That Manifests When Does Character Motivation Come In? Infodumping VS Answering Questions as They Come Up Just Add a Dick to It The Real Brand Identi…

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89: Plot Second, Thirst First 52:07

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The Highlights: How Romance Readers Play Minecraft Use Your Half-Started Ideas For a Change Theory about TikTok Theories Kate and Marty List Some Real Horny Shit Your Books Need A Quick Treatise on Instalove Everybody Looks Better with a Little Bit of Dirt on Their Face Your Hero Can't Just Be Hot But He Better Have Some Fucking Hands On Him Acts o…

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88: Lowest Possible Threshold for a Successful Online Shop 47:23

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The girls record their first episode together in Michigan! It's important to start this episode with a reminder with just how bad we are at math. Setting up an Etsy Vs. Woocommerce What to Stock Intermittent Nail Polish Breaks How to Run a Giveaway Strategies Around Engaging Your Reader Group Order Kate Prior's new-release, Mated to My Ex! (Divorce…

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87: Technically About Social Media 39:43

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The Highlights: New Recording Time, Who Dis Marty's Dilemna: Two Books, One HEA Kate Recaps the 2019 Tumblr Nose-Dive Vanity Metrics VS. Backlog Awareness Long, Possibly Bad Shelved Projects Bob Ross and the Order Of Operation Spending 10x the Time to Write A Sentence as A Reader Spends Reading It Instead of a Mind Palace Kate Has A Mind TrashCan Q…

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86: Career Deathtraps Disguised as Opportunities (and Some Marketing on the Side) 47:49

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The Highlights: Sometimes It's Better that an Opportunity Missed You Publishing Is Intensely Cyclical Statistically, How Are You Doing? The Fruits of Consistency Sometimes You Have to Make Terrible Choices (For Your Sinuses) Who Would Have Guessed that Authors Run on Positive Feedback Different Strategies for Writing Series Critically Acclaimed Hol…

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85: A What's Left in Our Fridge Kind of Episode 41:36

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The Highlights: We Don't Care for Episode Topics Gaslight Yourself Into Thinking Your Book is Good Marty Forgot Her Dog Outside But It's FINE FOMO About BookCons When You Don't Even like Leading the House Kate Hates NYC on an NJ Level Author Group Chats are Good and Bad for Learning Bite Off What You Can Chew, Despite FOMO Cultivating Joy In A Writ…

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84: We Ramble, Continuous 47:37

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The Highlights: Kate Can't Rawdog a Movie 5 Minutes Straight of Explaining The Above It's Andrew's Podcast Now Marty's Plans for Release Romancelandia Discourse You Can't Tell But We Edited Out The Part Where We Retcon Whatever The Episode Was Going to Be About If You Read this Book Wrong The Metaphor Ran Away from Me Outlines Have A Strange DNFing…

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83: Bitchin about Bridgerton... Thrice 57:19

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Katerina Stone is back! Kate, Marty and Katerina chat about the last four episodes of Bridgerton season 3. They have some mixed feelings and hot takes! Prepare yourself, or don't, it's up to you. SPOILERS ABOUND! Watch Bridgerton season three before listening, but don't forget to listen. (And maybe read the first 5 books in the series… 'Kay, thanks…

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82: Jami Albright On the Author Brand 1:07:45

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Jami Albright joins Marty in this episode about understanding and presenting your author brand! Jami shares her expertise on the promise an author makes to their readers, figuring out what is the unique thing you offer in your writing/books, and pinning down your ideal reader. She not only give advice on how to build your brand, but actionable task…

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81: Bitching About Bridgerton... TWO!! 1:06:50

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We're back with our lovely friend Katerina Stone, to do what we did last time. This time it's about season 3 (the first four episodes). Order Kate Prior's new-release, Mated to My Ex! (Divorced fated mates, werewolves, knotting, all the good stuff.) Marty Vee's newest book Hazel and Elijah Find Out is now available. Sign up for Marty's newsletter a…

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80: What is Time with Lauren Connolly 1:00:38

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This week's episode, Marty talks with guest author Lauren Connolly about time management. Order Kate Prior's new-release, Mated to My Ex! (Divorced fated mates, werewolves, knotting, all the good stuff.) Marty Vee's newest book Hazel and Elijah Find Out is now available. Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get Hazel and Elijah Don't Ge…

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79: Planning Out Our 2024 (We Know It's Almost Q3) 45:03

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This episode contains little Vingettes of: The Ritual Is Simple, Are You Recording? Marty Outlines her Year Long Plan (this is from february) In Your Heart You Know Second Place Is Losing The Emotional Rollercoaster of Giveaways Canva Punishments Penis Envy but It's Over Book Length In Defense of the Short Stories It Keeps Coming back to Subjectivi…

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78: Nobody Puts Baby's Brand In a Corner 52:20

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Marty and Kate are back after a longer than expected haitus, and we're kicking off season 4 the only way we know how-- a long, rambly, conversation about How You Are Doing Enough. The Highlights: Scapegoat for Kareoke Discovering We're Both Obsessed with Jethro Tull 7 Minutes in We Get On Topic Re-Structuring Marty's Time Writing Is For You Marty's…

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77: Just Make It Sexier (Season Finale!) 58:40

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Marty and Kate have a special episode for this season finale: reading ~1500 words of their current projects, and then giving critiques to each other. Warning: Kate says the phrase "lean in" about a hundred times. Order Kate Prior's new-release, Mated to My Ex! (Divorced fated mates, werewolves, knotting, all the good stuff.) Marty Vee's newest book…

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REPOST: To Critique or Not Critique 35:26

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Enjoy this repost! Kate and Marty are feeling the pressure of time and they weren't able to record this week. BUT next week will be the season finale, where they share writing and give criticism. So this episode seemed appropriate. Come on a journey with Kate and Marty, through the ups and downs of giving and receiving criticism. The Orc from the O…

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76: The Meaning of Love (One Hundred Times Over) 59:25

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Kate wrote a prompt for this episode about what it is to dissect the meaning of love over an over again as a romance author, Marty interprets it as a craft question, Kate interprets it as an introspective question. Neither feel like they full answered the prompt. Order Kate Prior's new-release, Mated to My Ex! (Divorced fated mates, werewolves, kno…

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75: Business Strategy On Minimum Brain Cells 55:52

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Apologies for Sounds of Opening Mail in the first few minutes of the episode. Kate and Marty discuss: Progress by Wordcounts and Nanowrimo Shelving Projects and Coming Back to them How was Your Halloween? Not Impressed with Past Selves It Takes 200 Hrs for Marty to Write A Whole Book Rest Is Productive 24 Hr Plays and Being Too Tired to Sleep Under…

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74: Kate Asks Marty Every Question She Can Think of About Her Current Project 57:04

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This was an idea for an episode we had a while back. Think of it as a demonstration of soundboarding, something we end up mentioning really late in the show. Order Kate Prior's new-release, Mated to My Ex! (Divorced fated mates, werewolves, knotting, all the good stuff.) Marty Vee's newest book Hazel and Elijah Find Out is now available. Sign up fo…

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73: Giving Your Characters Personal Growth 1:02:08

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It's all in the title this episode, Marty and Kate talk about the myriad of different ways a character can grow, what growth can look like and how it can serve the plot, as well as a really long (still relevant) discussion about Pride & Prejudice. Order Kate Prior's new-release, Mated to My Ex! (Divorced fated mates, werewolves, knotting, all the g…

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72: Things I Did Wrong with My Book Release 1:21:32

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The girls are both a little sick in this episode so the pacing is slower, but this week Kate tells Marty things she realized she did wrong with her most recent book release only after the fact. They both compare things that they're currently doing with their books and strategize how to work around those obstacles for next time. Order Kate Prior's n…

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71: Giving Second Chance Romances Another Try 57:08

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This week Marty and Kate dissect the Second Chance Romance trope, since they realized they're both writing books with it at the same time. We cover: Why Are They Werewolves? Giving Second Chances Another Try Marty Verbally Wedgies Kate from 1000 Miles Away Holding Suspense Throughout Plotting A SCR is Extremely Weird Getting Rid of the Mindset that…

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70: Undoing Hustle Culture 56:49

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This episode is mainly about building your author business without giving in to hustle culture, but we also go off on a number of tangents, such as: Marty Is Eating Her Library Books If You Don't Enjoy Reading A Genre, Why Would You Write In It? There Are No Bears in Michigan The Lunar Cycle Brain Curse Kate Describes Writing Process Very Similar t…

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69: Are You Happy About the Stress You Have? 59:02

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This episode, Marty and Kate talk about: The Outside Is Attacking Us (Allergies) Marty Isn't DNFing Out of Spite Marty F's Around with Prequels and Finds Out She Should Write More Sideboob Logistics Kate and Marty Are Really Having An Easy Time Writing Books for Once and Are Really Confused About It Marty Sets Some Really Wild Challenges for Hersel…

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68: Maybe Your Neuroses Affect Your Writing Process 52:07

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This episode, we talk about: When the ADHD Hyperfixation Wears Off / Burnout Is Self Publishing Actually Democratizing the Industry? Or Are we Creating Micro-Class Barriers You Should Strong Arm Your Way Into Situations 16 Minutes In And Kate Still Hasn't Explained Episode's Conceit When It's Ok To Not Accept Criticism TikToks Take FOREVER to Make …

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67: Romantasy's Balancing Act - Interview with Shoshana Rain 44:22

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The podcast starts off talking about Shoshana's new book, The Desert Heiress, when the conversation immediately takes a turn into video games. We talk about the ways this book differed from her first series, romantasy books vs fantasy books with romance arcs, balancing worldbuilding/plot vs relationships in romance/fantasy, the importance of buildi…

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66: Narrating is Our Coping Mechanism 42:31

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Today's episode is at least partly about writing while life is happening, but also: BEEFY chapters and Amazing Critique Group Dynamics The Glorification of Overwriting and Writing Speeds Book Launches During Family Events (TW: death mention, funerals) Emailing You From My Sickbed Washing the Dishes But It's a Character Moment What It Means to Learn…

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REPOST: You Always Remember Your First 1:17:56

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Enjoy this repost: They're back! In this episode, Kate and Marty discuss the age-old advice of "throwing out" the first book you write. They talk about their first attempts at writing books: everything that makes them want to forget that first manuscript, and all the things keeping it on the shelf. And about a dozen tangents in between. Get Marty's…

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65: You're Not My Real Writer Rules! 1:11:12

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Kate and Marty chat about writing rules; and why there are no laws while using loosely accurate examples and saying the wrong term. Enjoy their new use for the semi-colon; and the revival of an olden-times dialogue tag. (IYKYK) The Orc from the Office is Kate Prior's latest novella. Or check out her website at www.kate-prior.com. Get Marty's latest…

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64: Bummed Out About Burnout 54:25

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If the girls sound a little low energy, it's because we're talking about Burnout. We talk about: The Sims and Melting Computers Taking Time Away from A Project Feeling Off Balance After A Project Forgetting Your Characters' Names A Milkshake as the Ultimate Romantic Gesture Marty's Love of Emily Henry Actionable Items for Your Bitching Gaslighting …

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63: On Characters Climaxing after the Story's Climax 52:26

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We Discuss: Checking the Pulse of Your Book Titling your Book AND your Fictional Towns Kate Struggles against the Idea of Fictional National Parks Bone Town and its Many Mile Markers Reading Only the First and Last Sentences of Paragraphs One-Sentence Emails It's Weird to Have an Epilogue, It's Also Weird When You Don't Kate Rambles about Tessa Dar…

Authors Marty Vee And Kate Prior Podcasts