Romance Writer's Therapy
Hello and welcome to Romance Writer’s Therapy! Some people write therapeutically, authors need therapy after writing. We aren’t therapists, but we feel like we need one. This podcast is like our group therapy, just a couple of budding romance authors discussing writing, storytelling, reading and publishing--with many detours along the way.
Episodes
102 episodes
98: To-Do Lists ABOUND (Season Finale)
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.
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47:57
97: You're Not Putting a Hat on That Hat
The Highlights:I'm Being Productive, I PromiseKate Rambles for 5 Minutes to Tell You She's Working On Something NewDoes Anyone Read Anthologies?Just The Marty PartyOn Rushing EndingsThe I...
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53:21
96: This Episode Is Just For Kate to Sound Out Plot Problems
TW: Rabies, Bites, ShotsThe Highlights:Edits Back from HeathitorMarty Just Keeps Writing (Overshot by 40k Words)No One Thinks They Like Second Chance RomancesGrounding Marty From 2nd Chance Romance...
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51:30
95: Friends Enable Each Other's Hyperfixations
The Highlights:East Coasters Are Weird About FallTreating Plot Like the Steel Armature Holding Up These Twelve Raccoons In a TrenchcoatMarty's Been Doing ThingsBabies' First Real Romance NovelsWe ...
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39:18
94: Repetition, Social Media, and Tri-Pronged Strategy
The Highlights: There are No Right Directions, but There are Wrong OnesThe Suspense of WritingGoodreads Review Sheild for AuthorsYou Don't Have to Top the Last Thing You Did Every TimeTelling...
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46:40
93: Heather, Editing, and Everything Else
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.
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58:10
92: Erasing the Words on The Whiteboard of My Brain
The Highlights Include:Insert Yourself with Some FanfictionWhen You're Unsatisfied with Your Happy Ending (That's What She Said)How To Make Friends OnlineThat Guy At the Concert Who SUCKEDBring So...
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51:05
91: The Try-Fail Cycle Is Actually A Good Thing
The Highlights:The Novelty of Finishing Things On TimeSocial Media Calendar SoftwareCharacters Failing Makes them More InterestingTry-Fail CyclesThe Inevitable Unlikeable Heroine Trap
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90: You're Just Gonna Have to Go Get the Horse
The Highlights:Getting Vaguely Technical About Air ConditioningWeekly Reminder Kate is Bad at MathIt (Was) Too Dang HotWhen Did 40k Words Get In HereThe Book You Envision at the Start VS the Book ...
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52:26
89: Plot Second, Thirst First
The Highlights:How Romance Readers Play Minecraft Use Your Half-Started Ideas For a ChangeTheory about TikTok Theories Kate and Marty List Some Real Horny Shit Your Books NeedA Quick Tre...
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52:07
88: Lowest Possible Threshold for a Successful Online Shop
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. WoocommerceWhat to StockInt...
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47:23
87: Technically About Social Media
The Highlights:New Recording Time, Who DisMarty's Dilemna: Two Books, One HEAKate Recaps the 2019 Tumblr Nose-DiveVanity Metrics VS. Backlog Awareness Long, Possibly Bad Shelved Projects...
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86: Career Deathtraps Disguised as Opportunities (and Some Marketing on the Side)
The Highlights:Sometimes It's Better that an Opportunity Missed YouPublishing Is Intensely CyclicalStatistically, How Are You Doing?The Fruits of ConsistencySometimes You Have to Make Terrible Cho...
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85: A What's Left in Our Fridge Kind of Episode
The Highlights:We Don't Care for Episode TopicsGaslight Yourself Into Thinking Your Book is GoodMarty Forgot Her Dog Outside But It's FINEFOMO About BookCons When You Don't Even like Leading the House...
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41:36
84: We Ramble, Continuous
The Highlights:Kate Can't Rawdog a Movie5 Minutes Straight of Explaining The AboveIt's Andrew's Podcast NowMarty's Plans for ReleaseRomancelandia DiscourseYou Can't Tell But We Edited Out...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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47:37
83: Bitchin about Bridgerton... Thrice
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 ...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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57:19
82: Jami Albright On the Author Brand
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/bo...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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81: Bitching About Bridgerton... TWO!!
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).
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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1:06:50
80: What is Time with Lauren Connolly
This week's episode, Marty talks with guest author Lauren Connolly about time management.
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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1:00:38
79: Planning Out Our 2024 (We Know It's Almost Q3)
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 LosingThe Emotional Rollercoaster of Giveaways...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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45:03
78: Nobody Puts Baby's Brand In a Corner
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 KareokeDiscove...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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52:20
77: Just Make It Sexier (Season Finale!)
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.
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58:40
REPOST: To Critique or Not Critique
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.
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Season 3
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35:26
76: The Meaning of Love (One Hundred Times Over)
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 a...
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Season 3
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