Writers on Writing

Barbara DeMarco-Barrett and Marrie Stone have been running this show for a long time, and it shows. They sit down with working novelists, memoirists, and short story writers to talk about the actual mechanics of getting a book onto the page. What happens in the messy middle of a draft. How a scene changed between revision four and revision twelve. The agent call that went sideways. The hosts are writers themselves, so the questions go past the usual press-tour answers and land on stuff that only another writer would think to ask. Episodes run about an hour and feature guests ranging from debut authors with one book out to literary heavyweights with decades of work behind them. Expect conversations about character, structure, point of view, and the slow grind of sentence-level revision. There is also a healthy dose of industry talk, including agents, editors, advances, and the real numbers behind publishing deals. What sets this apart from other author interview shows is the willingness to slow down and get specific. If a guest mentions they rewrote an opening chapter eight times, Barbara and Marrie will ask why, what changed, and what they learned. For anyone who is tired of surface-level book promo chats, this is the one to save.