A podcast that asks authors about their editing experiences
This week I’m joined by psychiatrist and speculative fiction writer Justin C. Key. Justin shares his experiences writing and editing for audio stories, finding a team of people to trust when you’re moving around geographically, deciding whether to revise and resubmit or to look elsewhere, and balancing the writer’s life with an outside career and why editing short stories fits better into a busy life than novels.
This week I’m joined by kidlit author Maggie Tokuda-Hall. Maggie shares how illustrators amplified the messages in her picture books, why she worked with women editors for her feminist graphic novel, and what she did with her overedited, totally trunked manuscript. Plus we dive into our objectively perfect #StetPet personalities.
This week, I’m joined by fantasy writer Melissa Caruso. Melissa shares how editing is like a car, the different flavors her editors at Orbit have brought to the work, and how her copy editor inspired a character’s name. Plus we discuss what is perhaps the scariest note an editor can leave in the comments: “Why?”
This week, I’m joined by YA writer and fellow podcaster Sarah Nicolas. You may have also read their romance writing under Aria Kane. Sarah shares tips on how to survive writing an entire draft in 4 weeks, the process they undertake from “I hate this” to “my editor is a genius,” and how they were able to swap services to get editing when they had no budget for it. Plus they kindly correct a common misconception that even I had about Pitch Wars and we go off on a tasty tangent about chocolate.
This week, I’m joined by queer romance writer Skye Kilaen. Skye shares her process for finding beta readers and editors she can trust, how she weeds out toxic criticism, and how she took a sensitivity reader’s feedback to totally reshape a story. Plus we chat about in-house versus freelance editing and our favorite romance tropes.
