This week, Lydia and Sandy have prepared a special #Spooktober edition of the podcast. We are going to take some time and think about villains, baddies, dubious characters, and every other type of personality you could use in your story to crea

Chapter 10: The Perfect Pitch

Oct 8th, 2021 43m 1s

This week, Lydia and I will take you through the process of breaking down your work into the bare building blocks of the narration. We slim it down even further than a synopsis, and we’ll go even beyond that: at the length of a twitter pitch.

Chapter 9: The Writer's Toolbox

Oct 3rd, 2021 36m 32s

This week, we are looking at the tools a writer must arm himself with if he wishes to conquer the process of writing that dreaded first draft, first and final edits, cover design, promotional work, and everything else that has become an integra

Chapter 8 - Growth and Development Through Editing

Oct 3rd, 2021 55m 35s

Today we’re going to talk about Growth and Development Through Editing. We are pleased to introduce a special guest: Daniel Rafe.LINKS ON THE EPISODE: SANDY'S GRIMOIRE ANTHOLOGIES: https://www.patreon.com/sandybutchersLYDIA'S PRE-ORDER:

Chapter 7: Judge a Book By Its Cover

Oct 3rd, 2021 1h 1m

This week, we are judging books by their covers, and although this expression is used to prevent people from misjudging others, in the publishing industry a cover often tells you a lot about the book itself. There are simple covers, extravagant

Chapter 6: Drop Those Crutches!

Aug 15th, 2021 42m 24s

Crutches, also known as crutch words or filler words, are very common in the writing world. They distract us, they make our work appear messy and around the point, and above all: we need to learn how to drop them. This episode, we’ll spend some

Chapter 5: Houston, We Have An Imposter

Aug 15th, 2021 42m 31s

Despite the title suggesting that on this week’s episode we are either sending something into space or we have some trouble with 007 crashing our party, today is all about Mental Health. To be specific, we are talking about the dreaded Imposter

Chapter 4: Put Your Pantser Back On!

Aug 15th, 2021 39m 16s

This week’s episode is all about the greatest discussion that has ever made its way through the Writing Community. We're not talking about whether you write by hand or type your stories. It also has nothing to do with self- or traditional publi

Chapter 3: I Just Want To Write!

Jul 3rd, 2021 42m 58s

Welcome back! In this episode, we will shine some light on how we can push ourselves into writing without having it become a chore or self-flagellation. It is in moments where the world keeps knocking at our doors, Twitter demands our attention

Chapter 2: Kill your Darlings!

Jun 19th, 2021 38m 58s

Although this episode's title refers to the process of slowly erasing your work while absorbed into Self Editing, we don’t want you to worry: we are not going to explain any actual killing methods. Well, nothing that isn’t legal anyway... ;-)

Chapter 01 - Critique Partners: Friends or Foes?

Jun 5th, 2021 39m 40s

In this episode we talk about the necessity of good Critique Partners and how to find them, we’ll share a glimpse behind the scenes of a literary agent in our Intern Insights along with another line-up of questions and subjects that are trendin

Chapter 0 - Meet The Crew

May 22nd, 2021 30m 41s

Today is all about who we are and what we do, and we will spend some time answering the questions that followed our Twitter poll earlier this week. This means we will be talking about how to write that dreaded synopsis, and the do’s and don’t’s

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