Write, Damn It! with Zoe Richards
Welcome to Write, Damn It!, interviews with authors and writing mindset for writers who need a nudge or a good old shove to get the writing done, along with inspiration and motivation to help the words flow. Listening to Write, Damn It! helps you to become your own book coach with a combination of interviews, panels and mindset memos.
Episodes
132 episodes
Episode 131 Mindset Memo Do You Have The Right Mindset to Self Publish?
It's no mean feat to self-publish, so in today's episode I ask the question 'do you have the right mindset to do it?' Listen to the end to hear a tip for going into bookshops and asking the question about whether they will stock your book.
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Episode 130 Author Confidential with Mark Stay
Mark Stay got a part-time Christmas job at Waterstones in the 90s and, despite being working class and quite lippy, somehow ended up working in publishing for over 25 years. He wrote in his spare time and sometimes those writings got turn...
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Episode 130
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Episode 129 A Project Approach to Self-Publishing
In this episode I take you through a project manager's way of approaching self-publishing, sharing different elements that you need to consider up to the point of publishing. Full disclosure, I am not an expert in self-publishing, but I am an e...
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Episode 129
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Episode 128 Self-Publishing Panel with JM Simpson, Jane McParkes and Kerry Birds
This week we have a panel of authors talking about self-publishing. JM Simpson, Jo, is in a 1-2-1 interview in episode 47. Her Debut novel Sea State is set in Castleby, ...
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Episode 128
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Episode 127 In Conversation with Lucy Jane Wood
Lucy Jane Wood is a 33 year old content creator from the Wirral, living in London with her partner Adam and cat Flo. She's been making lifestyle and book content on YouTube and Instagram for ten years or so, and previously worked as a freelance...
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Episode 127
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Episode 126 Mindset Memo Writers' Reality Check
Ever doubt yourself as a writer or author because things are not happening for you the way that they are for others? In October's Mindset Memo, the first of this new series of the Monthly Mindset Memo, I share some reality checks that will help...
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Episode 125 In Conversation with Ashley Nova
Ashley is a sci-fi and fantasy author and professional astronomer. When she isn’t studying the intricacies of galaxy evolution and artificial intelligence, she’s plotting out and writing character driven speculative fiction at the intersections...
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Episode 124 The Autumn Book Haul with Bookaholic Bex
A new feature on the podcast is a quarterly chat with Bookaholic Bex (@BexBookaholic on TwiX) about books, more books, and even more books.In this episode, Bex talks about 3 books she's read, and 1 that's coming, and I add in a couple m...
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Trailer for Season 3 of Write Damn It!
Welcome to Season 3 - listen in to this short trailer to find out what's coming in this new season. Changes are afoot!
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Episode 123 In Conversation with Zen Cho
Zen Cho writes fantasy and romance. Her fiction has won the Hugo, Crawford and British Fantasy Awards, and the LA Times Ray Bradbury Prize. Her newest novel, The Friend Zone Experiment, is a contemporary romance set in London. Born and...
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Episode 122 In Conversation with Julie Haworth
With a degree in English and American Literature, Julie Haworth worked as an English teacher for a number of years, specialising in working with learners with literacy difficulties, before launching her own freelance copywriting business. She i...
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Episode 120 In Conversation with Dan Malakin
Dan Malakin has twice been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize, and his debut novel, The Regret, was a Kindle bestseller. He is also the author of The Box and The Wreckage of Us. When not writing thrillers, Dan works a...
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Episode 119 In Conversation with Ania Card
Ania Card lives in Brighton but was born and grew up in Poland. She started writing in English when she arrived at Cardiff University, getting involved with the student cultural magazine 'Quench', where she became part of the editing team and h...
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Episode 118 In Conversation with Emma Cowell
Emma Cowell lives in Falmouth Cornwall with her husband, Tony, and their fur baby, a Russian Blue called Papoushka. A former actress and BBC presenter Emma is currently Head of Philanthropy for national children’s palliative care charity, Toget...
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Episode 117 In Conversation with Ellery Lloyd
Ellery Lloyd is the pen name for husband and wife writers, Collette Lyons and Paul Vlitos. They are the authors of Richard and Judy pick People Like Her and Reese Witherspoon pick The Club, and their new mystery, The Final Act of Juliette Willo...
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Episode 117
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Episode 116 In Conversation with Zoë Richards
For this episode I am joined by two wonderful guest hosts who are chatting with me about my debut novel, Garden of Her Heart, which launched on 20th June. My two guest hosts are Jennie Godfrey who wrote The List of Suspicious Things, and Bookah...
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Episode 115 How Do We Know When We're Ready?
Tonight, as this episode goes live, is the pre-launch event for my novel, Garden of Her Heart. Next week is the launch event. Am I ready? In this episode I do a dive into how we can know when we're ready - be that ready to write, to edit, to qu...
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Episode 114 In Conversation with Kate Foster
Kate Foster is a journalist and author. Her debut novel, The Maiden, was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2024 and won theBloody Scotland Crime Debut of the Year 2023. Her latest novel, The Kings Witches, is out now. She has been aj...
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Episode 114
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Episode 113 Writing Support from Jericho Writers with Sophie Flynn
I regularly talk about how much support I have received on my writing journey from Jericho Writers, and so today's conversation is with Sophie Flynn, and author in her own right, and also the MD of Jericho Writers.Sophie is a Cotswolds-...
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Episode 112 In Conversation with Lily Samson
Lily Samson studied English at Oxford University and works in publishing. She divides her time between London and Paris, where her French partner resides. In her spare time she enjoys watching Hitchcock movies and moonlighting as a freelance ar...
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Episode 112
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Episode 111 What It's REALLY Like Leading Up To Publication
Hearing about someone having their novel published is really exciting, isn't it? But what's it really like for the author? In this episode I share the ups and the downs of the lead in to publication date for Garden of Her Heart on 20th June 202...
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Episode 111
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Episode 110 In Conversation with JP Maxwell
Lecturer, producer, Flâneur and novelist, John ‘JP’ Maxwell is the purveyor of nefarious historical antics in his Water Street series of novels. He lives in Liverpool and drinks only good coffee.Water Street, historical thriller and Wes...
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Episode 109 The Publicist's Role with a Novel
Have you noticed how some novels get a lot of media attention and others don't? In most cases, it's likely to be because a publicist is working with the author, and one who knows the right people and how to get the right message out there. In t...
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Episode 108 In Conversation with Ashleigh Nugent
Ashleigh Nugent’s debut novel, LOCKS, was published by Picador Books in 2023 to rave reviews including 4/5 stars in the Daily Telegraph. LOCKS recently secured a TV deal with 2LE Media. Ashleigh has also written for theatres, academic journals,...
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Episode 107 Writing and Chronic Illness with Ellie Johnson
Chronic illness is something that impacts on a lot of writers, and I've been asked a few times to do an episode on what sufferers can do - and so I invited Ellie Johnson (Ellie J Wellness) to come and chat to me. Ellie is the host of The Wellne...
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Episode 107
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