The Highlights: 

• There are No Right Directions, but There are Wrong Ones
• The Suspense of Writing
• Goodreads Review Sheild for Authors
• You Don't Have to Top the Last Thing You Did Every Time
• Telling the Same Joke In Ten Different Ways
• In Marketing You Don't Need to Reinvent the Wheel Every Time
• Saying Something Besides "Buy My Book"
• ADHD'd Too Close to the Sun
• "You've Heard of Hello Kitty, Right?"
• Fully Fledged Human with Hobbies
• Marty Talks Ream Plans

The Browser Extension Kate Talks About

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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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The Highlights:

• Kate Can't Rawdog a Movie
• 5 Minutes Straight of Explaining The Above
• It's Andrew's Podcast Now
• Marty's Plans for Release
• Romancelandia Discourse
• You Can't Tell But We Edited Out The Part Where We Retcon Whatever The Episode Was Going to Be About
• If You Read this Book Wrong
• The Metaphor Ran Away from Me
• Outlines Have A Strange DNFing Power Over Marty
• What If This Isn't Actually the Best Way to Begin this Book?
• Note for Future Kate: First Thought Best Thought When It Comes to Where You Start a Story
• Marty's Thoughts on Breaking Long-Established Writer's Advice
• There's So Many Things You Have to Get Right
• The Humiliation Kink ScreenWriter of the 90's

The Gargoyle from General Management, the latest in Kate Prior's Claws and Cubicles series.

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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 three before listening, but don't forget to listen. (And maybe read the first 5 books in the series… 'Kay, thanks!)

Their assessment of season two is here!

You can find Katerina Stone's hilarious tweets @stone_katerina and her Instagram @katerinastoneromance.

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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/books, and pinning down your ideal reader. She not only give advice on how to build your brand, but actionable tasks to find it and understand it.

CW, during the last ten or so minutes Jami touches on cancer, family member death, and the grieving process.

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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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(hi marty, can you do the summary and change the title to something more specific? thanks!)

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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 Losing
The Emotional Rollercoaster of Giveaways
Canva Punishments
Penis Envy but It's Over Book Length
In Defense of the Short Stories
It Keeps Coming back to Subjectivity 
The TV Fascism in Kate's Home
Marty Says "Bastard" Better than Anyone Ever
[Through Clenched Teeth] Have You Ever Tried Relaxing?

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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 Kareoke
Discovering We're Both Obsessed with Jethro Tull
7 Minutes in We Get On Topic
Re-Structuring Marty's Time
Writing Is For You
Marty's Fantasy Forray 
MOM. SAY THAT AGAIN!
Our Brains Think We're Not Productive Enough
Brand vs. Creativity 
Writing Outside the Brand Occasionally  is Still Good For The Brand
You Don't Need to Grow Everything All At Once
Kate Doesn't Think Talent Exists (Only Positive Reinforcement)
Marty Disagrees
Kate Recaps APL Monster Romance Panel
We Say Marty's New Book Cover Is Cute Approx 100x 
Book Blurbs, Bane of Our Existence
Kate Will Tear Books Up If Left Alone
Plans for Future Releases
A World Without Chairs

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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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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. 

Come on a journey with Kate and Marty, through the ups and downs of giving and receiving criticism.

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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 answered the prompt. 

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The Highlights Include:

• Insert Yourself with Some Fanfiction
• When You're Unsatisfied with Your Happy Ending (That's What She Said)
• How To Make Friends Online
• That Guy At the Concert Who SUCKED
• Bring Something You Love to the Table
• Yes Kate Has Shared This Thought Before (I'm So Sure This Loop Thing Was On Last Week's Episode Too)
• Marty's Most Productive Work-Play Cycle
• The ADHD Brain Is Always Seeking Stimulation
• Releasing Your Expectations of Your Manuscript Before Editing
• It's Not Stealing If It's from Your Younger Self
• External Validation Validating the Internal Validating
• Figure It Out, Listener
• Bob Ross's Famous Motto, "Fuck Around And Keep What You Like"
• The Hope You Will Be Incredible At Something the First Time
• One Romantic Ditch Digging
• Listener, You're in Some Slippery Hands Here
• Marty Defends Breaking Fourth Walls
• The Subjectively Of Is It Good and Is It Well Made
• We Talk About Fight Club
• The Line Between Spoonfeeding and Obfuscating

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Apologies for Sounds of Opening Mail in the first few minutes of the episode.

Kate and Marty discuss:

Progress by Wordcounts and Nanowrimo
Shelving Projects and Coming Back to them
How was Your Halloween?
Not Impressed with Past Selves
It Takes 200 Hrs for Marty to Write A Whole Book
Rest Is Productive
24 Hr Plays and Being Too Tired to Sleep
Understanding Where Your Genre's Market Is At
Marty Outlines Her 2024 Writing Plans
Niche Troubles
Kate Can't Conceptualize Time Further Out Than A Month

Summary of the Strategy:
Continue Building Backlist
Apologize to the Buisness Majors, It Is Actually Hard Stuff
Do Math
Figure Out How Much Writing You Get Done Every Year
Different Kinds of Sales

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This was an idea for an episode we had a while back. Think of it as a demonstration of soundboarding, something we end up mentioning really late in the show. 

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It's all in the title this episode, Marty and Kate talk about the myriad of different ways a character can grow, what growth can look like and how it can serve the plot, as well as a really long (still relevant) discussion about Pride & Prejudice. 

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The girls are both a little sick in this episode so the pacing is slower, but this week Kate tells Marty things she realized she did wrong with her most recent book release only after the fact. They both compare things that they're currently doing with their books and strategize how to work around those obstacles for next time. 

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This week Marty and Kate dissect the Second Chance Romance trope, since they realized they're both writing books with it at the same time.

We cover:

Why Are They Werewolves?
Giving Second Chances Another Try
Marty Verbally Wedgies Kate from 1000 Miles Away
Holding Suspense Throughout
Plotting A SCR is Extremely Weird
Getting Rid of the Mindset that All Chapters Need the Same Pacing
Differences Between First-Time and Second Chance Romance Beats
The Right Level of Emotionally Wounded
Required Reading: Gwen Hayes' Romancing the Beat
Mid-Pod Apology To Marty's Mom
Kate Rails Against the Best Friend Character
How Do It Right?
Adding a Plot After The Book is Written
Failing In Exactly the Same Direction
Write Faster, Think Less

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This episode is mainly about building your author business without giving in to hustle culture, but we also go off on a number of tangents, such as:

Marty Is Eating Her Library Books
If You Don't Enjoy Reading A Genre, Why Would You Write In It?
There Are No Bears in Michigan
The Lunar Cycle Brain Curse
Kate Describes Writing Process Very Similar to ADHD Symptoms
Your Manuscript's Honeymoon Stage
Backlists Over Marketing
FOMO Never Goes Away
Get Out of My House, Off My To-Do List
Kate Wants to See ChatGPT Cry
Automating The Banal
Ads Aren't the Only Answer
Craft Books and The Bubonic Plague
Coercing People Into Doing Your Taxes
What's The Marketing For OnlyF*ns Look Like
Don't Demonize Yourself for Wanting to Be Paid
You're the Child of Our Divorce, Listener

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This episode, Marty and Kate talk about:

• The Outside Is Attacking Us (Allergies)
• Marty Isn't DNFing Out of Spite
• Marty F's Around with Prequels and Finds Out She Should Write More 
• Sideboob Logistics
• Kate and Marty Are Really Having An Easy Time Writing Books for Once and Are Really Confused About It
• Marty Sets Some Really Wild Challenges for Herself
• Surprising No One, Marty is an Extrovert, Kate is an Introvert
• Making Friends Or Writing Books
• Reflecting On Ways Our Lives Have Changed Over The Last Couple Years
• 24 Minutes in We Get to the Point of the Episode
• Defining Success Outside of Captialism
• Nail Break
• Also You Can't Really Remove Capitalism from the Equation, Yet
• If You Really Knew What Your Dream Entailed, Would You Still Want It?
• Put Pressure On Yourself Like Everyone's Watching, Even If They Aren't
• Don't Love It When Things Happen to Me
• Leaving in the Ice Noises Specifically For You 
• Film Degrees Are Pretty Useless

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This episode, we talk about:

• When the ADHD Hyperfixation Wears Off / Burnout
• Is Self Publishing Actually Democratizing the Industry? Or Are we Creating Micro-Class Barriers
• You Should Strong Arm Your Way Into Situations
• 16 Minutes In And Kate Still Hasn't Explained Episode's Conceit
• When It's Ok To Not Accept Criticism
• TikToks Take FOREVER to Make
• Quizilla and LinkedIn are the Only Valid Social Medias
• Kate Realizes In Real Time The Thing She Wanted To Talk About Is Possibly Not That Relatable
• This Episode Was About Receiving Edits, It's Now About Cleaning
• Our Conversation Circumnavigates A Really Great Point About Pay-to-Win Video Game Dynamics and the Earlier Point About Micro-Class Barriers BUT IT'S FINE
• Picking Up Hobbies And Immediately Dropping Them
• Learning To Enjoy Not Being Good At A Thing

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The podcast starts off talking about Shoshana's new book, The Desert Heiress, when the conversation immediately takes a turn into video games. We talk about the ways this book differed from her first series, romantasy books vs fantasy books with romance arcs, balancing worldbuilding/plot vs relationships in romance/fantasy, the importance of building a backlist, the spectrum of writing to market vs the book of your heart.

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Today's episode is at least partly about writing while life is happening, but also:
BEEFY chapters and Amazing Critique Group Dynamics
The Glorification of Overwriting and Writing Speeds
Book Launches During Family Events (TW: death mention, funerals)
Emailing You From My Sickbed
Washing the Dishes But It's a Character Moment
What It Means to Learn Your Writing Process
Books/Authors We're Currently Reading
Good Books with Bad Summaries
It's Ok To Be A Little Judgey
Marty's Nutrition of Analysing
Don't Follow Her Advice, Follow Mine

Apologies for how utterly terribly Kate's audio is, she keeps messing with her mic settings and has not learned to stop.

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The Highlights:

• The Novelty of Finishing Things On Time
• Social Media Calendar Software
• Characters Failing Makes them More Interesting
• Try-Fail Cycles
• The Inevitable Unlikeable Heroine Trap 
• Continuing to Beat This Cart Before the Horse 
• Elijah Was Never A Bad Boy

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Enjoy this repost:

They're back! In this episode, Kate and Marty discuss the age-old advice of "throwing out" the first book you write. They talk about their first attempts at writing books: everything that makes them want to forget that first manuscript, and all the things keeping it on the shelf. And about a dozen tangents in between.

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Kate and Marty chat about writing rules; and why there are no laws while using loosely accurate examples and saying the wrong term. Enjoy their new use for the semi-colon; and the revival of an olden-times dialogue tag. (IYKYK)

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If the girls sound a little low energy, it's because we're talking about Burnout.

We talk about:

The Sims and Melting Computers
Taking Time Away from A Project
Feeling Off Balance After A Project
Forgetting Your Characters' Names
A Milkshake as the Ultimate Romantic Gesture
Marty's Love of Emily Henry
Actionable Items for Your Bitching
Gaslighting Your Readers Is Always An Option
Sequels Are Hard Part 2
Peaking Young Is Bad
Manually Lowering The Bar for Yourself

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We Discuss:
Checking the Pulse of Your Book
Titling your Book AND your Fictional Towns
Kate Struggles against the Idea of Fictional National Parks Bone Town and its Many Mile Markers
Reading Only the First and Last Sentences of Paragraphs
One-Sentence Emails
It's Weird to Have an Epilogue, It's Also Weird When You Don't
Kate Rambles about Tessa Dare Books Intermittently
Being Expirianced In Reading Endings

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Marty talks about twists with Darcy Monroe. As well as being the nerdiest little nerds in their hometown, their love of cinnamon roll heroes, and reading "steamy" romance at a young age.

Find Darcy at https://darcymonroewriter.wordpress.com/ or her book The Hall of Art and Pleasure

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Hey listeners, this week, Kate dug this episode from the back of the fridge, under the bed, behind the dishwasher, and some forgotten corner of her hard drive to bring you this mystery meet of an episode from JANUARY. Hopefully this year.

Have fun, who knows what this one is about.

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This episode, Marty and Kate tell you they're on a time crunch. Don't believe their lies-- buckle in for an hour and a half of them talking about the nitty gritty of Things You Could Theoretically Spend Money on, as An Author, mostly in terms of planning your release. Real technical stuff, y'know.

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This week, Marty and Kate dive into the best strategies for playing Stardew Valley, the much lauded timesuck, and do math on just how many hours they've played it for. They play hot potato with the only brain cell left on the show for a while, discussing how they write the endings of their books, what it means to have more stamina for a book, and the unexpected emotional consequences of writing sad scenes (making yourself cry).

The Orc from the Office is Kate Prior's latest novella. Or check out her website at www.kate-prior.com.

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This episodes starts out being about editing while you're writing, things that slow you down, and somehow becomes about saying "meh, fuck it" about things that have become hurdles in your mind.

Half of the podcast is also about roombas, and it's only sort of a tangent.

The Orc from the Office is Kate Prior's latest novella. Or check out her website at www.kate-prior.com.

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This week, Marty and Kate talk about Kate's recent forray into the world of audiobooks and the process with Tantor Audio. They also go over Marty's plans to make her own audiobooks, the indie pub DIY way, and all the things that factor into either path.

The Orc from the Office is Kate Prior's latest novella. Or check out her website at www.kate-prior.com.

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The Highlights:

• Getting Vaguely Technical About Air Conditioning
• Weekly Reminder Kate is Bad at Math
• It (Was) Too Dang Hot
• When Did 40k Words Get In Here
• The Book You Envision at the Start VS the Book That Manifests
• When Does Character Motivation Come In?
• Infodumping VS Answering Questions as They Come Up
• Just Add a Dick to It
• The Real Brand Identity Is the Friends We Made Along the Way
• Playing to The One Friend Who Laughs At Your Jokes
• CURRENTLY NOT SPONSORED BY DROPOUT (But We Should Be)
• Actually Sit Down And Do Your Worksheets
• The Social Part of Social Media
• The Gap Between Social Media Metrics and Book Sales
• Don't Post Online NonSober Guys 

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Join us this week with author Isabelle Drake, as Marty fangirls over how much she enjoyed Drake's class on scene structure.  They take little side steps to critique partners' best practices and The Sixth Sense. Enjoy this craft heavy episode!

Find Isabelle Drake on Instagram at @isabelledrake or her website www.isabelledrake.com.


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This episode, Marty invites E.F. Dodd dissent the enemies to lovers trope, and discuss Dodd's new 2023 release,  A Higher Standard.

Follow E.F. Dodd on Instagram! Find out more about her books on her website!

The Orc from the Office is Kate Prior's latest novella. Or check out her website at www.kate-prior.com.

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This episode we talk about something that genre romance tends to take for granted-- that the leading characters should fall in love. Why these two, and not some other combination? He's just some guy, hit him with your car, etc.

Tangents:
Meal Preppers
The Power of Manifesting a Calendar
Non Sober Story Analysis
Divorce Is Always An Option
A Saw Movie Where The Torture Is Just Watching All Seven Saw Movies
Marty Wants You To Have Self Confidence


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This episode is a little relaxed, Kate and Marty talk about some of the things they got up to during their haitus, and recap the things the authory things they figured out while off the air. But not without some immediate and major tangents.
 
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Marty: loves winning, hates clapping. That's all you need to know.
Kate: makes a lot of references to romcoms she barely remembers watching or hasn't seen. 

This season ender the duo sling tropes at one another in the weirdest game of not-rock-paper-scissors you've ever heard. In fact, it looks nothing like RPS. They make up stories on the fly and it doesn't seem like there's any points in this game.

We'll see you after our little break!

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This episode Marty and Kate weren't really sure what they were going to talk about, but they ended up talking mostly about how they create characters, taking into consideration for how they will form a series of books, and how characters are created when an HEA is the end goal.

The Orc from the Office is Kate Prior's latest novella. Or check out her website at www.kate-prior.com.

Marty's New Year's Eve anthology all proceeds to Planned Parenthood is available here, or at B&N, or at Amazon.

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You can find Kate on threads @bykateprior and Instagram @bykateprior and Marty on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor.

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This week, Marty and Kate talk about something they each think the other has a strength in, imagery and character voice. Which really just boils down to various ways to focus on describing your characters (settings are a character, supposedly) in direct and indirect ways, whether you want to or not.

The Orc from the Office is Kate Prior's latest novella. Or check out her website at www.kate-prior.com.

Marty's New Year's Eve anthology all proceeds to Planned Parenthood is available here, or at B&N, or at Amazon.

Get Marty's latest novel Just Fake Married.

Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get "You and Me in Quarantine" for free!

You can find Kate on Twitter @bykateprior, and Instagram @bykateprior, and Tiktok @bykateprior. Marty can be found on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor.

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Order Kate Prior's new-release, Mated to My Ex! (Divorced fated mates, werewolves, knotting, all the good stuff.)

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You can find Kate on threads @bykateprior and Instagram @bykateprior and Marty on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor.

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This episode, we talk to guest DJ Russo, an indie alien/sci-fi romance author, and her experiences with re-doing her book cover and the changes she saw in her sales. We dive into book covers, the psychology behind them, ARCs and reviews, and a few ADHD things in between.

DJ's book Abduction Seduction is on sale this Valentine's, so go check it out!

Kate's book Love Laugh Lich is also on sale this week for 99 cents on Amazon.

Marty's book All Roads to Carter is free through Feb. 15, 2023

You can find Kate on Twitter @bykateprior, and Instagram @bykateprior, and Tiktok @bykateprior. Marty can be found on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor.

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CW: Somewhere around 30 minutes in Kate and Marty take a hard left into an abstract talk about parasites.

Kate and Marty continue their series on tropes, with a dive into Fake Dating. Enjoy as they try to gather a single braincell between them to discuss this trope that they both actually really love!

The Orc from the Office is Kate Prior's latest novella. Or check out her website at www.kate-prior.com.

Marty's New Year's Eve anthology all proceeds to Planned Parenthood is available here, or at B&N, or at Amazon.

Get Marty's latest novel Just Fake Married.

Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get "You and Me in Quarantine" for free!

You can find Kate on Twitter @bykateprior, and Instagram @bykateprior, and Tiktok @bykateprior. Marty can be found on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor.

Please subscribe and rate our podcast, it helps us reach new listeners.

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You can find Kate on threads @bykateprior and Instagram @bykateprior and Marty on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor.

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This episode is like a time capsule, despite only happening ~ 1 1/2 months ago. Pretend it's at some point in December 2022, listener, to achieve the full vibe.

We talk about forbidden love, and the microtropes within the trope that make it work! Also Bagel Church.

Note: Fun Fact! This episode was recorded a few hours after Kate ingested norovirus-adled food, and you can probably tell when it starts to hit as her ability to track what Marty is saying starts going downhill.

Marty's New Year's Eve anthology all proceeds to Planned Parenthood is available here, or at B&N, or at Amazon.

Get Marty's latest novel Just Fake Married.

The Orc from the Office is Kate Prior's latest novella. Or check out her website at www.kate-prior.com.

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You can find Kate on Twitter @bykateprior, and Instagram @bykateprior, and Tiktok @bykateprior. Marty can be found on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor.

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Order Kate Prior's new-release, Mated to My Ex! (Divorced fated mates, werewolves, knotting, all the good stuff.)

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You can find Kate on threads @bykateprior and Instagram @bykateprior and Marty on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor.

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The Highlights:

• How Romance Readers Play Minecraft 
• Use Your Half-Started Ideas For a Change
• Theory about TikTok Theories 
• Kate and Marty List Some Real Horny Shit Your Books Need
• A Quick Treatise on Instalove
• Everybody Looks Better with a Little Bit of Dirt on Their Face
• Your Hero Can't Just Be Hot
• But He Better Have Some Fucking Hands On Him
• Acts of Service Are Sexy

Order Kate Prior's new-release, Mated to My Ex! (Divorced fated mates, werewolves, knotting, all the good stuff.)

Marty Vee's newest book Hazel and Elijah Find Out is now available. Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get Hazel and Elijah Don't Get Caucht for free!

You can find Kate on threads @bykateprior and Instagram @bykateprior and Marty on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor.

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This week, guest author Troy Lambert talks to Marty and Kate about his platform Plottr, how it helps writers figure out and visualize their story arcs, his book The Call of Karen (A Cthulhu and Karen Adventure Comedy),  and just about everything in between.

Go to plottr.com for more information.

Find Troy Lambert on Instagram at @authortroy or his website troylambertwrites.com.

The Orc from the Office is Kate Prior's latest novella. Or check out her website at www.kate-prior.com.

Marty's New Year's Eve anthology all proceeds to Planned Parenthood is available here, or at B&N, or at Amazon.

Get Marty's latest novel Just Fake Married.

You can find Kate on Twitter @bykateprior, and Instagram @bykateprior, and Tiktok @bykateprior. Marty can be found on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor.

Please subscribe and rate our podcast, it helps us reach new listeners.

Order Kate Prior's new-release, Mated to My Ex! (Divorced fated mates, werewolves, knotting, all the good stuff.)

Marty Vee's newest book Hazel and Elijah Find Out is now available. Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get Hazel and Elijah Don't Get Caucht for free!

You can find Kate on threads @bykateprior and Instagram @bykateprior and Marty on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor.

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Marty talks with Courtney Clark Micheals about toxic masculinity and how the genre of romance is breaking that nonsense down.

Find Courtney on Instagram @courtneyclarkmichaels or on her website www.courtneyclarkmichaels.com

Marty's New Year's Eve anthology all proceeds to Planned Parenthood is available here, or at B&N, or at Amazon.

Get Marty's latest novel Just Fake Married.

The Orc from the Office is Kate Prior's latest novella. Or check out her website at www.kate-prior.com.

Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get "You and Me in Quarantine" for free!

You can find Kate on Twitter @bykateprior, and Instagram @bykateprior, and Tiktok @bykateprior. Marty can be found on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor.

Please subscribe and rate our podcast, it helps us reach new listeners.

Order Kate Prior's new-release, Mated to My Ex! (Divorced fated mates, werewolves, knotting, all the good stuff.)

Marty Vee's newest book Hazel and Elijah Find Out is now available. Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get Hazel and Elijah Don't Get Caucht for free!

You can find Kate on threads @bykateprior and Instagram @bykateprior and Marty on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor.

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Listener, apologies, but we start off with some stories about throwing up a lot. Skip to 6:40 if that's not your jam.

We intended to have this episode be about the Fake Relationship Trope, but somehow we got to talking about the Surprise Baby Trope / Secret Baby Trope, kids in romance overall, and more! So this episode was really the surprise baby we made along the way.

Marty's New Year's Eve anthology all proceeds to Planned Parenthood is available here, or at B&N, or at Amazon.

Get Marty's latest novel Just Fake Married.

The Orc from the Office is Kate Prior's latest novella. Or check out her website at www.kate-prior.com.

Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get "You and Me in Quarantine" for free!

You can find Kate on Twitter @bykateprior, and Instagram @bykateprior, and Tiktok @bykateprior. Marty can be found on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor.

Please subscribe and rate our podcast, it helps us reach new listeners.

Order Kate Prior's new-release, Mated to My Ex! (Divorced fated mates, werewolves, knotting, all the good stuff.)

Marty Vee's newest book Hazel and Elijah Find Out is now available. Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get Hazel and Elijah Don't Get Caucht for free!

You can find Kate on threads @bykateprior and Instagram @bykateprior and Marty on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor.

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We're kicking off this year with some year-long planning! Marty shares with us how she builds a year long plan with smaller quarterly goals, while Kate unknowingly experiences the early symptoms of norovirus, starting many sentences and finishing few.

In true RWT fashion, we get a little lost in the weeds, touching on other topics such as marketing, freelancing, and the pacing of indie vs traditional publishing.

Marty's New Year's Eve anthology all proceeds to Planned Parenthood is available here, or at B&N, or at Amazon.

Get Marty's latest novel Just Fake Married.

The Orc from the Office is Kate Prior's latest novella. Or check out her website at www.kate-prior.com.

Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get "You and Me in Quarantine" for free!

You can find Kate on Twitter @bykateprior, and Instagram @bykateprior, and Tiktok @bykateprior. Marty can be found on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor.

Please subscribe and rate our podcast, it helps us reach new listeners.

Order Kate Prior's new-release, Mated to My Ex! (Divorced fated mates, werewolves, knotting, all the good stuff.)

Marty Vee's newest book Hazel and Elijah Find Out is now available. Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get Hazel and Elijah Don't Get Caucht for free!

You can find Kate on threads @bykateprior and Instagram @bykateprior and Marty on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor.

This Episode is brought to you by SimplySpellBoundEdits (Heather the Editor (Heathitor)).

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