Writing Class

Writing Class

These episodes are fun and informative 15 minute tutorials on how to write a book, develop charachaters, set plot points, getting published as well as adapting your writing career for the unexpected

Episodes

Linda Frank

April 4, 2025 • 26 mins
Linda is out there doing presentations of her books.   In addition to writing awesome teen mysteries, she also produces a local TV Show in East Hampton called “The Writer’s Dream,” a series of shows with writers in many different aspects of the profession.Linda is a native New Yorker, born in N.Y.C. and a lover of the greatest city in the world. 
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Julia Bogen

March 28, 2025 • 22 mins
Julia's ultimate goal to be a bridge between cultures, Julia began her career in publishing by interning in foreign rights and then spending the next several years as an associate book scout working for publishing houses around the world. Julia majored in linguistics, along with East Asian languages and cultures while minoring in French at Indiana University and Tokyo’s Temple UniversityShe is currently selling rights to Hungary, E...
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Florence bliss

January 22, 2025 • 26 mins
Florence A. Bliss is an author from Las Vegas, NV who has a keen eye for writing love stories full of drama, heartache, humor, and enough seduction to light the pages on fire. With an MFA in creative writing from UNLV, Florence loves to write across genres but has found her home in romance. She lives with her fancy Italian husband and two children. Together they love to travel, explore the ghost towns around Las Vegas, roadtrip up ...
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Tom Lutz

December 29, 2024 • 26 mins
Tom is an author, professor and traveler. He's traveled to 150 countries. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, New Republic, Chicago Tribune, Die Zeit, ZYZZYVA, Exquisite Corpse, Salon.com, Black Clock, and other newspapers and literary venues, as well as in dozens of books and academic journals.
Read about Tom here: https://www.tomlutzwriter.com/about-tom/
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Audrey Lee

April 14, 2024 • 27 mins
Audrey Lee started writing fiction at the young age of eleven, when she and her best friend co-authored a masterpiece about gallivanting around London with the members of Depeche Mode, Wham!, and Duran Duran. Unfortunately, these spiral notebooks have yet to find a publisher evolved enough to understand the genius buried within.As a result, The Mechanics of Memory is her first work of published fiction.Audrey lives in the San Franc...
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Debra Yates

March 16, 2024 • 26 mins
DEBRA YATES hails from Ohio but now resides in St. Pete Beach, Florida. Although she began her writing later in life, she did so with great passion. Being of Cherokee descent and having had stories passed down from generation to generation, Debra found herself drawn to family history, to the point of enlisting a genealogist to verify her conclusions. Traveling to relevant destinations along the East Coast and in the Midwest, she br...
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Lisa Towles

February 18, 2024 • 18 mins
Lisa Towles is an award-winning, Amazon bestselling crime novelist and a passionate speaker on the topics of fiction writing, creativity, and self care. Lisa has 11 crime novels in print with a new psychological thriller, Codex, forthcoming in June of 2024. The first two books of her E&A Investigations Series (Hot House and Salt Island) were both #1 Amazon Kindle Bestsellers with Book 2 (Switch) due for release in the Fall of 2...
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Irinia Intuitive healing

December 8, 2023 • 27 mins
Dr Irina Webster, is the author of the books: The Secret Energy of Your Body, How to Heal Using Intuitive Healing, Pregnancy From A to Z and other books about intuitive health and wellness. She is a medical doctor, who following her retirement from the conventional medical industry, promotes the value of Medical Intuition and Intuitive Healing to the world.She lives by the motto that healing is always possible and even if your prob...
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Book seller Book store

November 28, 2023 • 26 mins
Dan Fridd and his wife talk to us about the book business. No, its not about publishing. Today we're dabbling in the business of selling books. Also what it takes to book store
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SG Tasz

October 1, 2023 • 12 mins
SG Tasz published her first piece of writing at the age of eleven. She wrote a poem for a class that was selected to be a part of a regional student anthology, at which point she retired from poetry, knowing that this was the highest accolade a poem of her's was likely to receive. However, she still has a copy of that anthology. As you can see, she was a bit dark even then. She is a multimedia writer.
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Arjun Chaudhuri (CEO of Ukiyoto Publishing )

September 12, 2023 • 16 mins
Arjun Chaudhuri is the Founder & CEO of the organisation Ukiyoto Publishing. He is an emerging entrepreneur of the year AACC '21 and has a innovative start-up of the year.
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Andy Ross(Literary Agent Update)

August 23, 2023 • 16 mins
Andy started his literary agency in February, 2008. Andy represent authors who write books in a wide range of subjects including: narrative non-fiction, science, journalism, history, current affairs, contemporary culture, religion, children's books and commercial and literary fiction.
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Hope(Debut Author)

July 19, 2023 • 10 mins
Hope Gibbs grew up in rural Scottsville, Kentucky. As the daughter of an English teacher, she was raised to value the importance of good storytelling from an early age. Today, she’s an avid reader of women’s fiction. Drawn to multi-generational family sagas, relationship issues, and the complexities of being a woman, she translates those themes into her own writing.​Hope lives in Tennessee with her husband and her persnickety Shih ...
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Martha Anne Toll (Washington Post, NPR Book Reviewer Pen Faulkner Award)

June 15, 2023 • 10 mins
Three Muses won the Petrichor Prize for Finely Crafted Fiction and was shortlisted for the Gotham Book Prize. Buzzfeed, NPR and the Washington Post have given Three Muses a lot of love. With a starred review from Kirkus, Three Muses made The Millions’ most anticipated second half of 2022 list. Vulture Magazine included it in “57 Books We Can’t Wait to Read This Fall.” L.A. Parent called it “an exquisitely crafted novel, and POINTE ...
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Amy Willard (Debut Author)

June 7, 2023 • 14 mins
Amy is an author who writes with heart and tells a great tale. She runs many businesses yet she still finds time to write.
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Samantha Skal (Co-Director of PitchFest, International Thriller Writers conference)

May 31, 2023 • 11 mins
Samantha Skal (she/her) is an Author Accelerator certified book coach who specializes in coaching mystery, thriller and suspense authors from novel planningShe is the 2023 Co-Director of PitchFest, the agent pitching event at Thrillerfest, International Thriller Writers annual writing conference, and a frequent volunteer mentor for the Women’s Fiction Writers Association (. She is also a member of Mystery Writers of America , and S...
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Dzifa (Reviewer for: the Telegraph, the Times Literary Supplement, the London Magazine, & the Poetry Review)

March 26, 2023 • 23 mins
Dzifa Benson is a multi-disciplinary live artist who uses literature as her primary mode of expression. The intersections between science, art, the body and ritual and by the question of who or what is invisible animate Dzifa's practice
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Tenesha (Chair for Atlanta's Self-Publishing ConferenCe)

March 13, 2023 • 26 mins
The CEO and founder of Writerwerx University, which helps authors with their book planning, writing, editing, and design needs. In addition, WU offers literary education and support for screenwritings, novelists, poets, and other text-based creatives. ​ Oh, yeah! I’m also an independent author myself
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Alex Bigwarfe (CEO of Kat Biggie Press)

February 20, 2023 • 13 mins
Alexa Bigwarfe is a mother to 3 wildlings who keep her on her toes. She is an advocate, activist, speaker, author & author coach, publisher, and podcaster. Her writing career began after her infant daughter passed away at 2 days old and she turned to writing for healing. Since then, she has used her writing platform for advocacy and activism to support mothers, children, and marginalized voices. She began a nonprofit, Sunshine ...
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Tenesha Curtis

February 5, 2023 • 26 mins
Tenesha is the CEO and founder of Writerwerx University, which allows her to help authors with their book planning, writing, editing, and design needs. In addition, WU offers literary education and support for screenwritings, novelists, poets, and other text-based creatives. Tenesha is an independent author herself! She has written in multiple genres, including psychological thriller, mystery, romance, erotica, fantasy, and self-he...
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