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Hear us Roar
If you're an aspiring author and want insights into what's involved in launching a book into the world, this is the podcast for you. Maggie Smith, author and blogger, interviews debut novelists from the Women's Fiction Writers Association discussing not only the inspiration behind their book, but also their insights into the writing process, the best advice they ever got, and the joys and sometimes pitfalls they encountered on their path to publication.
Episodes
Hear us Roar223: Brynn Barineau- Author of Jaguars and Other Game
This week's guest is Brynn Barineau (Jaguars and Other Game, Orange Blossom Publishing, November 2022). After writing two YA novels that didn't find a…
Hear us Roar222: Patricia Hudson - Author of Traces
Our guest this week is Patricia Hudson (Traces, Firesign Industries, Univ of Kentucky Press, November 2022). Patricia's historical fiction debut centers around…
Hear us Roar221: Kathy Maresca - Author of Porch Music
This week's guest is Kathy Maresca (Porch Music, Touch Point Press, October 2022) In her debut novel, set in 1950's Gainesville Florida, Kathy utilized stories…
Hear us Roar220: Georgia Day - Author of Of Sand and Bone
Our guest this week is Georgia Day (Of Sand and Bone, Rhapsody Press, November 2022). Hear how a recurring nightmare, complete with a haunting, portentous…
Hear us Roar219: Amy Watson - Author of Closer to Okay
This week's guest is Amy Watson (Closer to Okay, Alcove Press, October 2022). Amy and I discuss clinical depression (she and her husband both live with this)…
Hear us Roar218: Linda Moore - Author of Attribution
Our guest this week is Linda Moore (Attribution, She Writes Press, October 2022). You'll smile at Linda's analogy of how introducing your book to your audience…
Hear us Roar217: Karen Heenan - Author of Coming Apart
This week's guest author is Karen Heenan (Coming Apart, indie published, October 2022). Our discussion ranges from what happens when the characters in your…
Hear us Roar216: Wendy Adair - Author of The Broken Hallelujah
The podcast this week features Wendy Adair (The Broken Hallelujah, indie published, October 2022). Once Wendy had her core idea, snippets of facts as well as…
Hear us Roar215: Gloria Mattioni- Author of California Sister
This week our guest is Gloria Mattioni (California Sister, Atmosphere Press, September 2022). Gloria, originally born in Italy, wrote six previous books before…
Hear us Roar214: Nancy Yeager- Author of When We Were Friends
Our podcast guest this week is Nancy Yeager (When We Were Friends, Red Adept, October 2022). This was Nancy's debut women's fiction although during the time…
Hear us Roar213: Anastasia Zadeik - Author of Blurred Fates
This week's podcast guest is Anastasia Zadeik (Blurred Fates, She Writes Press, August 2022). Her novel, which won the prestigious 2022 Sarton Award for…
Hear us Roar212: Suzanne Moyers - Author of 'Til All These Things Be Done
Our guest this week is Suzanne Moyers ('Til All These Things Be Done., She Writes Press, September 2022). We discuss her historical fiction debut, loosely…
Hear us Roar211: Judith Turner-Yamamoto- Author of Loving The Dead and Gone
This week's podcast guest is Judith Turner-Yakamoto (Loving the Dead and Gone, Regal House, September 2022). We discuss how she pulled her manuscript just…
Hear us Roar210: Jacqueline Boulden- Author of Her Past Can't Wait
Our latest podcast features Jacqueline Boulden (Her Past Can't Wait, Pine Place Press/indie, September 2022). We discuss EMDR, a new therapeutic treatment that…
Hear us Roar209: Carol Van Den Hende - Author of Orchid Blooming
The guest this week is Carol Van Den Hende (Orchid Blooming, Azine Press, September 2022). We talk about what happens when a character you weren't expecting…
Hear us Roar208: Tamatha Cain- Author of Song of the Chimney Sweep
This week's guest is Tamatha Cain (Song of the Chimney Sweep, Orange Blossom Publishing, August, 2022). We discuss Tamatha's love of not only the musical…
Hear us Roar207: L Maristatter- Author of Tiny Tin House
In this week's podcast with L Maristatter (Tiny Tin House, Niffy Cat Press, August 2022), we examine what she did when her manuscript grew to 380,000 words…
Hear us Roar206: CJ McGroarty - Author of Clara in a Time of War
This week's guest is CJ McGroarty (Clara in a Time of War, Atmosphere Press, September 2022). We talk at length about the world-building inherent in writing…
Hear us Roar205: Leslie Kain- Author of Secrets In the Mirror
Today's podcast features Leslie Kain (Secrets in the Mirror, Atmosphere Press, September 2022). We discuss how she writes out her action story first, in…
Hear us Roar204: Run Up to 10th Anniversary Conference Sept 2023.mp3
In this special edition, we talk round-table style with three of the hard-working volunteers behind making the 10th Anniversary Celebration a success: Jamie…
Hear us Roar203: Adele Holmes - Author of Winter's Reckoning
This week's guest is Adele Holmes (Winter's Reckoning, She Writes Press, August 2022). We discuss the complexity of not only writing three-POVs of different…
Hear us Roar202: Carol Dunbar- Author of The Net Beneath Us
Our guest this week is Carol Dunbar (The Net Beneath Us, Forge, September 2022). A successful actor in Minneapolis, Carol realized she was a storyteller…
Hear us Roar201: Angela Cairns - Author of Touch
This week's podcast guest is Angela Cairns (Touch, indie published August 2022). A resident of the UK, Angela's fiction is informed by her work as a…
Hear us Roar299: Sharon Peterson- Author of The Do-Over
Our podcast this week features Sharon Peterson (The Do-Over, Bookouture, August 2022). Tempted to give up writing when faced with raising four children (two…
Hear us Roar199: Dianne Braley- Author of The Silence in the Sound
This week our guest is Dianne Braley (The Silence in the Sound, Koehler Books, August 2022). Her experience working on Martha's Vineyard as private nurse to…
Hear us Roar198: Rita Rowe - Author of Becoming Ruthless
Listen here to our interview with Rita H. Rowe (Becoming Ruthless. Indie published, October 2021). Rita's a prolific writer, releasing eight books so far with…
Hear us Roar197: Maggie Ginsberg- Author of Still True
This week we talk with Maggie Ginsberg (Still True, Univ of Wisconsin Press, September 2022). Maggie, a journalist and magazine editor, always thought the…
Hear us Roar196: Carolyn Clarke - Author of And Then There's Margaret
This week's podcast features Carolyn Clarke (And Then There's Margaret, Black Rose Writing, July 2022). As the founder and resident guru of HenLit Central…
Hear us Roar195: D.F. Kennedy - Author of The Truth
This week's podcast is with D.F. (Donna) Kennedy (The Truth, indie-published, June 2022). We talk about her journey from writing a memoir about her unique and…
Hear us Roar194: Staci Greason - Author of All The Girls In Town
Tune in to our podcast episode with Staci Greason (All The Girls in Town, Touchpoint Press, July 2022). In her early twenties, Staci was a regular cast member…
Hear us Roar193: Lisa Rosenberg - Author of Embers On the Wind
Give a listen to our interview with Lisa Williamson Rosenberg (Embers on the Wind, Little A, August 2022). Lisa's life has been a study in duality. She's a…
Hear us RoarSpecial Episode: Founding Mothers of WFWA June 2023
In honor of Women's Fiction Day 2023, pull up a chair and listen to this special edition of Hear Us Roar celebrating Women's Fiction Day 2023. Our guests on…
Hear us Roar192: Nina Wachsman - Author of The Gallery of Beauties
Nina has no end of interesting tie-ins to her book that she uses in presentations and social media posts from the history and culture of Venice, to ancient…
Hear us Roar191: Chris Posti- Author of Falling Apart, Falling for You
Our guest this week is Chris Posti (Falling Apart, Falling for You, Elk Lake Publishing, April 2022). During the pandemic lockdown, Chris followed the sage…
Hear us Roar190: E.J. Tanda- Author of Queen of Secrets
Our guest this week is E.J. Tanda (Queen of Secrets, indie published, June 2022). The book Twilight had a profound effect on E.J. when she was suffering a low…
Hear us Roar189: Karla Huebner- Author of In Search of the Magic Theater
Listen here to our interview with Karla Huebner (In Search of the Magic Theater, Regal House, June 2022). We discuss this novel's quick appearance (3 months to…
Hear us Roar188: Jen Craven- Author of Best Years of Your Life
Our guest this week is Jen Craven (Best Years of Your Life, Indie published, August 2022). Listen in as we discuss why she decided on an academic setting for…
Hear us Roar187: Robin Maass- Author of The Walled Garden
This week's podcast features Robin Maass (The Walled Garden, Spark Press, May 2022). We discuss MFA programs and how they often neglect to teach story…
Hear us Roar186: Jody Herpin- Author of Relative Consequences
Our guest this week is Jody Herpin (Relative Consequences, Indie Published, March 2022). Jody always starts any new writing project by getting to know her…
Hear us Roar185: Carol Orange- Author of A Discerning Eye
This week's podcast features Carol Orange (A Discerning Eye, Cavan Bridge Press, October 2020). Carol's background in both art (art books in London, art dealer…
Hear us Roar184: Suzanne Mattaboni- Auhor of Once in a Lifetime
This week's podcast features Suzanne Mattaboni (Once in a Lifetime, Touchpoint Press, March 2023). There's much more to 1980's America than disco balls and…
Hear us Roar183: Linda MacKillop- Author of The Forgotten Life of Eva Gordon
Our guest this week is Linda MacKillop (The Forgotten Life of Eva Gordon, Kregel Publications May 2022). Linda took a rough draft she'd worked on for years…
Hear us Roar182: Grace Marcus - Author of Visible Signs
Our podcast guest this week is Grace Marcus (Visible Signs, Touchpoint Press, May 2022). Grace, a debut author at 75 years old, shares lessons she learned…
Hear us Roar181: RLynn Johnson- Author of Cry of the Heart
This week's podcast guest is RLynn Johnson (Cry of the Heart, MilSpeak Books, May 2022). Taking inspiration from her years spent in the JAG Corps of the DOD…
Hear us Roar180: Janis Robinson Daly- Author of The Unlocked Path
This week's guest is Janis Robinson Daly (The Unlocked Path, Black Rose Writing, August 2022). March is Women's History Month and how better to celebrate this…
Hear us Roar179: Erin Litteken - Author of The Memory Keeper of Kyiv
This week's podcast is with Erin Litteken (The Memory Keeper of Kyiv, Boldwood Books, May 2022). We discuss the serendipitous timeliness of her book, which…
Hear us Roar178: Melanie Mitzner- Author of Slow Reveal
This week's podcast is with Melanie Mitzner (Slow Reveal, Inanna Publishing, May 2022). Melanie started her writing career as a playwright and screenwriter but…
Hear us Roar177: Karen Winn - Author of Our Little World
Listen to this week's podcast with our guest Karen Winn (Our Little World, Dutton, May 2022). Karen's an example of how helpful writing conferences can be as…
Hear us Roar176: Judith Brenner - Author of The Moments Between Dreams
This week's podcast is with Judith Brenner (The Moments Between Dreams, Greenleaf Book Group Press, May 2022). An historical fiction which encompasses not only…
Hear us Roar175: Eileen Brill- Author of A Letter In The Wall
This week's podcast is with Eileen Brill (A Letter In The Wall, Spark Press, May 2022). We discuss how fate dropped her story's inciting incident into her lap…
Hear us Roar174: Kimberly Nixon- Author of Rock Bottom, Tennessee
This week's podcast is with Kimberly Nixon (Rock Bottom,Tennessee, indie-published, April 2022). Using an apocryphal family legend about her grandmother as the…
Hear us Roar173: Kris Spisak - Author of The Baba Yaga Mask
Our latest podcast episode features Kris Spisak (The Baba Yaga Mask, Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing, April 2022). Kris, the previous author of three non-fiction…
Hear us Roar172: Zoe Disigny - Author of The Art of Traveling Strangers
Listen here to our interview with Zoe Disigny (The Art of Traveling Strangers, Mascot Publishing, February 2022). Hear her story of initially querying agents…
Hear us Roar171: Sarah Branson - Author of A Merry Life
Here's our latest podcast with Sarah Branson (A Merry Life, Sooner Started Press, April 2022). Our discussion ranges from what it's like to build a world…
Hear us Roar170: Maggie Giles - Author of The Things We Lost
Listen here to our newest podcast with Maggie Giles (The Things We Lost, Rising Action, April 2022). We discuss how her book's concept is a twist on the…
Hear us Roar169: Jen Gilroy- Author of The Sweetheart Locket
This week's podcast is with Jen Gilroy (The Sweetheart Locket, Orion Dash/Orion Books, March 2022). Unlike most of our guests, Jen has been publishing since…
Hear us Roar168: J. Marie Rundquist - Author of All I'm Asking
Rundquist's book is an epistolary novel, written entirely in messages, primarily emails, between two friends, so it presented unique and tricky challenges in…
Hear us Roar167: Sita Romero - Author of Words We Cannot Say
This week's podcast is with Sita Romero (Words We Cannot Say, Red Adept Publishing, April 2022). Sita's background as a former doula informs her first novel…
Hear us Roar166: Judy Lannon- Author of Nine Days
This week's interview is with Judy Lannon (Nine Days, Atmosphere Press, March 2022).A novice at writing, Judy was inspired to write her novel after advising a…
Hear us Roar165: Lisa Roe- Author of Welcome to the Neighborhood
This week's interview is with Lisa Roe (Welcome to the Neighborhood, Sourcebooks, April 2022). Describing herself as too anxious to be a pantser, Lisa…