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Laura Bell (@littleLo) chats about her Ashwood series and revisits the writing of A Simple Deception—a historical romance that totally made me cry. 

If you listen close enough, you can hear my necklaces clank as I press my hand to my heart with all the feels. Literally clutching my pearls over here. :)


Topics include the troubles of historical fiction. Slavery in the 1800s and today. Freedom. The vulnerability of writing. A romance writer’s high standards. Fighting against a whitewashed genre. The vulnerability of writing.  Dating apps. Justice in fiction.

LittleLo's Ashwood Series:


Book 1: A Solemn Promise

Book 2: An Earnest Favour

Book 3: A Simple Deception

And a Wattpad shout out to @Kassilassie for her killer western historical fiction on Wattpad and all the other writers spinning the stories we want far better than we ever could. 




This is the last episode of this season! I hope to be back in September and if you’d like to hear from someone in particular, email me at orangeinkpodcast@gmail.com.
If you have a sec, here’s a brief feedback questionnaire on this season. Let me know any and all thoughts. Like, how was your breakfast? Have any pets? Lol ;)

Melissa Mitchell (Wattpad: @addicted2dragons) chats about her beloved Dragonwall series--one of my all-time Wattpad favs. Divided into two parts.


Topics include: Wattpad success in real-time. Plotting vs pantsing. Dragons! Destiny. Productivity. Writer-life balance. Multiple POVs (11 in one book!?). And a few tears shed on why we read and, consequently, why we write. . xx

Other mentioned resources:
Take Off Your Pants! by Libbie HawkerDragonriders of Pern by Anne McCafferyEragon by Christopher Paolini

Melissa Mitchell (Wattpad: @addicted2dragons) chats about her beloved Dragonwall series--one of my all-time Wattpad favs. Divided into two episodes.


Topics include: Wattpad success in real-time. Plotting vs pantsing. Dragons! Destiny. Productivity. Writer-life balance. Multiple POVs (11 in one book!?). And a few tears shed on why we read and, consequently, why we write. . xx

Other mentioned resources:
Take Off Your Pants! by Libbie HawkerDragonriders of Pern by Anne McCafferyEragon by Christopher Paolini

Gina Anderson-Lopez (Wattpad: @Red_Harvey) shares her speculative fiction, cyberpunk novel  Daughter of Zeus. 


Topics include: The purpose of sci-fi. Cyberpunk tech research. Violence and revenge. Moral ambiguity. Mixed character archs. Free-will and morality. Our hopeless (hopefully not so hopeless) future, explored through art. Power without empathy. And plenty of book recc  swapping. hahaha


Wattpad Reading Recommendations :D

After the Fall by @LLSanders

and The Water Witcher by @VanCarley

If any my links are off, let me know! ‘:)


Email me with any comments or thoughts (or a writer you’d like to hear from!!) at orangeinkpodcast@gmail.com.

Hope to hear from you! >. xx


Other mentioned resources:
@amberkbryant on WattpadWoman on the Edge of Time by Marge PiercyThe Hidden Legacy Series by Ilona AndrewsDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickThe Road by Cormac McCarthyBig Driver by Stephen KingClockwork Orange - the filmNineteen Eighty-Four by George OrwellThe Boys - Amazon ShowThe Dark Fantastic by Ebony Elizabeth ThomasAlso does anyone use the chapter markers in these things?

This is a bonus episode! You can listen to the first half of my convo with Brianna here.

Where we take a closer look again the characters of All Over Again, exploring what it really means to love someone, the difference between helping and fixing, different types of toxicity and how love helps us be more ourselves. It gets real psych-y. In the best possible way. ;)

Give Brianna some love on her Wattpad and Instagram. Let her know how brilliant she is.

Have any experience with toxic traits in yourself or others? What does writing help you process? Want to sign a petition to keep Raffo with Ruth? Email me at orangeinkpodcast@gmail.com. I’d love to hear from you. 3

Next podcast will be on May 25th as I catch up from travels. See you soon!

Brianna (Wattpad: @XxBriannaMariexX) spills the tea on her contemporary, Afro-Indigenous romance All Over Again. 

Topics include: Memoir as processing. Romance with grey endings. Afro-Indigenous representation (or the lack thereof).  The financial risk of writing. Concentric circles of minority. Grief and break-ups. And what childhood fanfics we hide in our Wattpad drafts. ;)


Wattpad Reading Recommendations :D
How (Not) To Date a Popstar by @letmelivetonight
Constellations of You and Me by @Yehree

And Comfort the Wolves by @kcgalloway (AKA: me! >.. xx