The Chosen Ones and Other Tropes – Details, episodes & analysis

This season, we're diving into the many myths and tropes of publishing a novel. From inception to writing, to querying agents, working with editors, and all the way through to publication. We're covering everything we've heard and learned about publishing.

• Naomi Gibson, author of Every Line of You, Game Over Girl
• Melissa Welliver, author of The Undying Tower, My Love Life and the Apocalypse, Soulmates and Other Ways to Die
• Jamie Greenwood, creator & host of the Write and Wrong Podcast

On this season finale we are jumping in on the much discussed topics of new adult and crossover, what they mean and where they fit into the publishing spectrum.

• Naomi Gibson, author of Every Line of You, Game Over Girl
• Melissa Welliver, author of The Undying Tower, My Love Life and the Apocalypse, Soulmates and Other Ways to Die
• Jamie Greenwood, creator & host of the Write and Wrong Podcast

We're back and we're kicking off the year with some predictions for what we think is going to be popular in the world of writing, books and publishing for 2024! Shoutout to our friends over at the WriteMentor Hub for all their helpful suggestions!

• Naomi Gibson, author of Every Line of You, Game Over Girl
• Melissa Welliver, author of The Undying Tower, My Love Life and the Apocalypse
• Jamie Greenwood, creator & host of the Write and Wrong Podcast

To wrap up our second season, the loosely romance themed one, we're going back to the tier list. Tune in for lots of arguing about which trope goes where and whether we agree with where we put some of the tropes from season 1.

• Naomi Gibson, author of Every Line of You, Game Over Girl
• Melissa Welliver, author of The Undying Tower, My Love Life and the Apocalypse
• Jamie Greenwood, creator & host of the Write and Wrong Podcast

Making two characters who would never otherwise spend time together is always a great recipe for conflict and intrigue, but there is a pretty intense dark-side to this one.

• Naomi Gibson, author of Every Line of You, Game Over Girl
• Melissa Welliver, author of The Undying Tower, My Love Life and the Apocalypse
• Jamie Greenwood, creator & host of the Write and Wrong Podcast

It's weird, creepy and rarely works but we get into the weeds with this one. This trope is pretty toxic.

• Naomi Gibson, author of Every Line of You, Game Over Girl
• Melissa Welliver, author of The Undying Tower, My Love Life and the Apocalypse
• Jamie Greenwood, creator & host of the Write and Wrong Podcast

It's a weird one to talk about because it only really comes up when it's done badly. Tune in to hear us try and define it, whilst constantly contradicting our own definitions but sort of, vaguely getting close to an understanding by the end. Maybe.

• Naomi Gibson, author of Every Line of You, Game Over Girl
• Melissa Welliver, author of The Undying Tower, My Love Life and the Apocalypse
• Jamie Greenwood, creator & host of the Write and Wrong Podcast

Opposites Attract is a classic but does it need some sprucing up? Can it sometime be used as an excuse to cover up some troubling issues?

• Naomi Gibson, author of Every Line of You, Game Over Girl
• Melissa Welliver, author of The Undying Tower, My Love Life and the Apocalypse
• Jamie Greenwood, creator & host of the Write and Wrong Podcast

We all know it from Romeo and Juliet, but we went a bit darker than I think any of us expected in this episode. Maybe it was forbidden for a reason!

• Naomi Gibson, author of Every Line of You, Game Over Girl
• Melissa Welliver, author of The Undying Tower, My Love Life and the Apocalypse
• Jamie Greenwood, creator & host of the Write and Wrong Podcast

Always interesting to see people coming together, clashing and eventually overcoming their differences to bond and become closer than they could ever have imagined. Or is it?!

• Naomi Gibson, author of Every Line of You, Game Over Girl
• Melissa Welliver, author of The Undying Tower, My Love Life and the Apocalypse
• Jamie Greenwood, creator & host of the Write and Wrong Podcast