Episodes

Monday Sep 25, 2017
September Roundup & How Important Research Is In Fiction
Monday Sep 25, 2017
Monday Sep 25, 2017
In the September roundup episode host Mindy McGinnis shares how important research can be when writing fiction, even to the point of helping jump start the ever-frightening writer's block.
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Monday Sep 18, 2017
Tiffany Jackson: Setting Writing Goals
Monday Sep 18, 2017
Monday Sep 18, 2017
Mindy McGinnis welcomes Tiffany Jackson, author of ALLEGEDLY. Tiffany talks about setting goals while in the query trenches, and how skills developed working in TV crossed over to writing fiction for Tiffany. She also shares about how a hurricane made her go unplugged and provided the backdrop she needed to produce that first book, and how interviewing girls in the juvenile justice system helped shape Allegedly.
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Monday Sep 11, 2017
Jeff Zentner: Drawing Inspiration From Real Life
Monday Sep 11, 2017
Monday Sep 11, 2017
Host Mindy McGinnis is joined by Jeff Zentner, author of the William C. Morris Award winning and Carnegie Medal longlisted book The Serpent King (2016). Jeff shares about how his love of music led him into a career as a novelist, drawing inspiration from people in real life to populate the pages of your fiction, and how to effectively write the opposite gender.
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Monday Sep 04, 2017
Madeleine Roux: Following Up A New York Times Bestselling Debut
Monday Sep 04, 2017
Monday Sep 04, 2017
Guest Madeleine Roux, New York Times Bestselling Author of the ASYLUM series, joins host Mindy McGinnis to talk about the neglect of genre fiction in the educational setting, her unique method of garnering an agent, the ever-present disdain of YA, the pressure of following up a New York Times Bestselling series, and the pain of having a project close to your heart not find its audience.
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