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 literary fiction writer Hilary Zaid. Hilary explores the mindset she brings to self-editing, shares how working with professional editors has differed from the critiques she received in writing conferences and workshops, and provides guidance for writers who need to make big, big cuts. Plus we talk about why our lawyer besties are so dang sweet.
This week, I’m joined by Oludara (Dara) Adeeyo, an editor, writer, and psychotherapist passionate about helping people improve their overall well-being, especially Black women. We talk about how to avoid erasing AAVE in editing passes, how to decide whether you’re being sensitive or the feedback is valid, impostor syndrome, and how writing and editing for books differs from magazines. Plus she reveals her secret blog!
