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 education, interviews and the Friday shorts.
Episodes
123 episodes
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 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 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 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 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 106 In Conversation with Frances Quinn
Frances Quinn is the author of historical novels The Smallest Man, That Bonesetter Woman and The Lost Passenger (to be published Feb 2025). Previously a journalist, she’d dreamed of writing books since she was seven years old and finally ...
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Episode 105 Writing Neurodiverse Characters by Lived Experience with Sarah Ziegel
In the last of the mini series on Writing Neurodiverse Characters, I chat with Sarah Ziegel who has lived experience as a mother of 4 boys with autism and other ND traits. Sarah has written and self-published 2 books, her latest of which won he...
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Episode 104 In Conversation with Natali Simmonds
Natali Simmonds is a multi-genre fiction author. Her thriller,Good Girls Die Last,is being adapted for TV, and the last book of her fantasy trilogy,Children of Shadows,was shortlisted for an RNA Fantasy Award. She also co-writes paranormal roma...
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Episode 103 Writing Neurodiverse Characters Being Authentic
In the third in the series on Writing Neurodiverse Characters we dive into being authentic, bringing together what ND is, and what the most obvious traits are. This episode explores a series of questions that help to write an ND character with ...
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Episode 102 In Conversation with Rebecca Thorne
Rebecca Thorne is the author of the Tomes & Tea cozy fantasy series, as well as several self-published novels. She loves fantasy, romance, and dragons. Rebecca's latest book is Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea, which is cozy fa...
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Episode 101 Writing Neurodivergent Characters - Introduction to ND Traits
In the second of the mini series on writing neurodivergent characters we dive into a high level overview of ND traits - this is not a definitive list, but gives you a sense of how to go beyond the stereotypes of describing a neurodiverse charac...
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Episode 100 In Conversation with Emma Claire Wilson
Emma-Claire Wilson is an author of emotional commercial and book club fiction. She writes ‘to make sense of the world’, and loves nothing more than tackling tough subjects and issues that affect her readers on a daily basis.When she is n...
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Episode 99 Writing Neurodivergent Characters - Introduction to ND
Neurodiversity is becoming more of a thing in character development since Eleanor Oliphant appeared in May 2017. Since then I've read a few books that have handled neurodivergent characters well - and many that have not. Even with my leve...
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Episode 98 In Conversation with Alexandra Potter
Alexandra Potter is the bestselling author of numerous romantic comedy fiction novels in the UK, including One Good Thing and Confessions of a Forty-Something F##k Up, one of the bestselling books of 2022 and the basis of a ma...
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