Page One - The Writer's Podcast

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New episodes every Friday! On Page One - The Writer's Podcast, we talk to writers of all descriptions (authors, screenwriters, comic writers and more) about their writing process and how they craft their next great works. We also explore their career, including how their first big break happened, and discuss the ups and downs along the way. We learn something new every episode, and we hope you do as well. Page One is brought to you by Write Gear, creators of Page One - the Writer's Notebook. Order yours now: https://www.writegear.co.uk/shop. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. Drafting Notes - Imposter Syndrome in Writing (And How to Deal With It)

    1D AGO

    Drafting Notes - Imposter Syndrome in Writing (And How to Deal With It)

    Watch this episode as a full video episode on YouTube On this week's Drafting Notes, we are discussing whether professional editing/critique services are useful to first-time authors. On the one hand, you are getting professional feedback on your writing, but on the other, they are often very expensive! So is the reward worth the cost? We discuss our own thoughts and experiences! Drafting Notes is a series in which one award-winning writer (Tariq) and one hopefully soon-to-be-published writer (Marco) discuss various writing issues as they occur to them! Drafting Notes episodes are available early if you join our Patreon - check it out and get this and other great benefits! Watch this as a full video episode on our YouTube channel! On today's episode of Drafting Notes, we are talking about the dreaded imposter syndrome - what is it and why do so many writers feel it? Is it only writers starting out, or do all writers continue to feel like they are imposters? Plus, we discuss dealing with comparison to other writers' successes - how do you stop the envy getting to you when another writer is getting a big deal and you are not? Drafting Notes is a series in which one award-winning writer (Tariq) and one hopefully soon-to-be-published writer (Marco) discuss various writing issues as they occur to them! Drafting Notes and Page One - The Writer's Podcast are brought to you by Write Gear, creators of Page One - the Writer's Notebook. Learn more and order yours now: https://www.writegear.co.uk/page-one Follow us on Facebook Follow us on Instagram Follow us on Bluesky Follow us on Threads Drafting Notes is part of STET Podcasts - the one stop shop for all your writing and publishing podcast needs! Follow STET Podcasts on Instagram and Bluesky Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    20 min
  2. Adventures in Publishing-land: Agents Rail Against AI, Influencer Imprints & Genre Snobbery

    3D AGO

    Adventures in Publishing-land: Agents Rail Against AI, Influencer Imprints & Genre Snobbery

    Watch as a full video on YouTube This week on Adventures in Publishing-land, we’re heading to San Francisco to look at Bindery Books. This startup is turning "bookfluencers" into acquiring editors, letting communities choose their own bestsellers. Is this the "Taylor’s Version" of publishing, or a risky bet on "tastemakers"? Plus, we discuss top literary agencies sounding the alarm on "formulaic" and "flattened" AI-generated queries, and also return to the topic of genre snobbery, and why fantasy is making everyone think again about it. 00:00 Intro 01:17 Facile & Formulaic - Agents Ban AI Queries 12:21 The Tastemaker Model - BookTok Becomes The Editor 21.39 Myth-understandings - Fighting Genre Snobbery 34:35 - Off Script: Stranger Than Fiction 39:53 Final Chapter - A Wonderful New Take on Superheroes Links: Literary agents urge writers to avoid AI as they see ‘change in nature of submissions’ Bindery Books Influencer-led Publishing Model Myth, monsters and making sense of a disenchanted world: why everyone is reading fantasy Adventures in Publishing-land is brought to you by STET Podcasts - the one stop shop for all your writing podcast needs, featuring Page One - The Writer's Podcast, The Conversation with Nadine Matheson and more! Follow us on Bluesky Follow us on Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    47 min

  3. 6D AGO

    Ep. 256 - Sydney Amanuel on What Tabletop RPGs Teach Us About Storytelling

    Watch as a full video interview on YouTube Welcome to the first in a short series of cross-over episodes with our new podcast, Narrative Damage - a podcast where some of your favourite authors gather together to rolll dice, craft worlds and tell stories together through the medium of tabletop roleplaying games (TTRPGs)! For our first guest, we are delighted to chat with the brilliant Sydney Amanuel. Sydney is an actor and designer from New York. While she is usually spotted in films and TV, she also appears on multiple TTRPG podcasts on The Glass Cannon Network where she plays various characters full of improv comedy, fantasy and fun.  Sydney tells us about how she sort of stumbled into the world of live TTRPGs and tells us about the avenues that these games give for storytelling. We talk about the many similarities between the writing process and roleplaying games, including how she crafts characters, worlds and more. If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to subscribe to Narrative Damage on YouTube and on its own podcast feed as we have many more brilliant guests and our own live play games with authors coming very soon! Links: Listen to Sydney on the Glass Cannon Network Follow Sydney on Instagram Visit Sydney's website Follow Narrative Damage on YouTube or its own podcast feed to get more interviews with TTRPG writers, creators and more, plus actual plays with some of your favourite authors: https://linktr.ee/narrativedamagerpg Support us on Patreon and get great benefits!: https://www.patreon.com/ukpageone Page One - The Writer's Podcast is brought to you by Write Gear, creators of Page One - the Writer's Notebook. Learn more and order yours now: https://www.writegear.co.uk/page-one Follow us on Facebook Follow us on Instagram Follow us on Bluesky Follow us on Threads Page One - The Writer's Podcast is part of STET Podcasts - the one stop shop for all your writing and publishing podcast needs! Follow STET Podcasts on Instagram and Bluesky Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1h 17m

  4. FEB 20

    Ep. 255 - TM Logan on Selling 3m Thrillers, TV Adaptations & the Pressure of Success

    Watch this episode as a full video interview on YouTube TM Logan is the bestselling author of thrillers that have sold over three million copies in the UK and been translated into 22 languages worldwide. A former national newspaper journalist, Tim is also the author of The Holiday — a Richard & Judy Book Club pick adapted for TV — as well as The Catch, The Dream Home, The Mother, The Curfew, Trust Me, Lies and 29 Seconds. His latest novel, The Weekend, is out on 26 February. We had a great chat with Tim, hearing about his time as a journalist, and why he wanted to move into fiction writing. He tells us how a series of events allowed him to try his hand as a full-time author, and we talk about the pressure of success and the expectation that can bring, as well as hearing about TV adaptations of his work. Links: Buy The Weekend and Tim's other books now Follow Tim on Instagram Visit Tim's website Support us on Patreon and get great benefits!: https://www.patreon.com/ukpageone Page One - The Writer's Podcast is brought to you by Write Gear, creators of Page One - the Writer's Notebook. Learn more and order yours now: https://www.writegear.co.uk/page-one Follow us on Facebook Follow us on Instagram Follow us on Bluesky Follow us on Threads Page One - The Writer's Podcast is part of STET Podcasts - the one stop shop for all your writing and publishing podcast needs! Follow STET Podcasts on Instagram and Bluesky Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1h 13m
  5. Adventures in Publishing-land: How AI ‘Wrote’ 200 ‘Books’ a Year and The Wuthering Heights Adaptation Debate

    FEB 16

    Adventures in Publishing-land: How AI ‘Wrote’ 200 ‘Books’ a Year and The Wuthering Heights Adaptation Debate

    Watch as a full video on YouTube This week, we’re unpacking the controversy surrounding Emerald Fennell’s "Wuthering Heights" adaptation. From historically inaccurate corsets to Margot Robbie’s "raunchy" take on Cathy, we debate how far a retelling can stray before it loses the source material entirely. Plus, we look at how one writer used AI to publish 200 novels in a single year, allegedly earning six figures. But is she a writer? And after a century of dominance, are paperbacks shuffling toward extinction? 00:00 Intro 01:25 200 'Books' A Year - The AI Romance Gold Rush? 12:48 Pulp Fiction No More - The Death of Paperbacks? 23.35 Raunchy Brontë - Straying Too Far From the Source? 37:38 - Off Script: Stranger Than Fiction 43:15 Final Chapter - Best RomComs Links: Can AI Chatbots Write Romance? NY Times Article The Death of the Mass Market Paperback? How Different Is Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” Compared to Emily Brontë’s Book? Adventures in Publishing-land is brought to you by STET Podcasts - the one stop shop for all your writing podcast needs, featuring Page One - The Writer's Podcast, The Conversation with Nadine Matheson and more! Follow us on Bluesky Follow us on Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    48 min

  6. FEB 13

    Ep. 254 - Rebecca Hannigan on Writing Twists and Unsympathetic Characters

    Watch as a full video interview on YouTube Rebecca Hannigan has an MA in Creative Writing Crime Fiction from UEA, graduating in 2023. She won the UEA/Little Brown Crime Prize for her dissertation. She has also been shortlisted for Virago/The Pool’s Best New Crime Writer. Her first novel, Darkrooms, is out now. We had a great chat with Rebecca, hearing about her experience of getting a masters in crime writing and how that helped her with her debut, Darkrooms. We also discuss the anxiety that can build up as a debut writer in the lead up to launch, and get into a big discussion about what makes twists work (or fail), as well as talking about writing unsympathetic characters. Links: Buy Darkrooms now! Visit Rebecca's website Follow Rebecca on Instagram Support us on Patreon and get great benefits!: https://www.patreon.com/ukpageone Page One - The Writer's Podcast is brought to you by Write Gear, creators of Page One - the Writer's Notebook. Learn more and order yours now: https://www.writegear.co.uk/page-one Follow us on Facebook Follow us on Instagram Follow us on Bluesky Follow us on Threads Page One - The Writer's Podcast is part of STET Podcasts - the one stop shop for all your writing and publishing podcast needs! Follow STET Podcasts on Instagram and Bluesky Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1h 7m

  7. FEB 6

    Ep. 253 - Weird Fiction and the Unsettling: Inside The Truth of Carcosa with Jacob Rollinson

    Watch as a full video interview on YouTube Jacob Rollinson was born in England in 1984. He is currently based in East Sussex, employed as an academic librarian. Jacob has a PhD in creative and critical writing from the University of East Anglia. He is always looking things up, and he never knows where his next interest is going to take him: he has delivered papers and joined panels on topics ranging from literature and archive work to translation of Classical Chinese poetry, journalism and human rights, and crime fiction. He enjoys weird books.His debut novel, The Truth of Carcosa, is out now. We had a really interesting chat with Jacob, talking about weird fiction - what it is and how it can be unsettling - and learning about how The Truth of Carcosa grew out of a fever dream during Covid. Plus, we discuss the role of luck in publishing, and the value of writing courses. Links: Buy The Truth of Carcosa now (can be bought in the UK via Amazon) Follow Jacob on Bluesky Visit Jacob's website Support us on Patreon and get great benefits!: https://www.patreon.com/ukpageone Page One - The Writer's Podcast is brought to you by Write Gear, creators of Page One - the Writer's Notebook. Learn more and order yours now: https://www.writegear.co.uk/page-one Follow us on Facebook Follow us on Instagram Follow us on Bluesky Follow us on Threads Page One - The Writer's Podcast is part of STET Podcasts - the one stop shop for all your writing and publishing podcast needs! Follow STET Podcasts on Instagram and Bluesky Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    58 min
  8. Drafting Notes - Are Professional Critique Services Worth It For First-Time Authors?

    FEB 4

    Drafting Notes - Are Professional Critique Services Worth It For First-Time Authors?

    Watch this episode as a full video episode on YouTube On this week's Drafting Notes, we are discussing whether professional editing/critique services are useful to first-time authors. On the one hand, you are getting professional feedback on your writing, but on the other, they are often very expensive! So is the reward worth the cost? We discuss our own thoughts and experiences! Drafting Notes is a series in which one award-winning writer (Tariq) and one hopefully soon-to-be-published writer (Marco) discuss various writing issues as they occur to them! Drafting Notes episodes are available early if you join our Patreon - check it out and get this and other great benefits! Drafting Notes and Page One - The Writer's Podcast are brought to you by Write Gear, creators of Page One - the Writer's Notebook. Learn more and order yours now: https://www.writegear.co.uk/page-one Follow us on Facebook Follow us on Instagram Follow us on Bluesky Follow us on Threads Drafting Notes is part of STET Podcasts - the one stop shop for all your writing and publishing podcast needs! Follow STET Podcasts on Instagram and Bluesky Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    21 min
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New episodes every Friday! On Page One - The Writer's Podcast, we talk to writers of all descriptions (authors, screenwriters, comic writers and more) about their writing process and how they craft their next great works. We also explore their career, including how their first big break happened, and discuss the ups and downs along the way. We learn something new every episode, and we hope you do as well. Page One is brought to you by Write Gear, creators of Page One - the Writer's Notebook. Order yours now: https://www.writegear.co.uk/shop. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  • Creator
    STET Podcasts
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2026
  • Episodes
    311
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    ℗ & © 2024 Write Gear Limited
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    Page One - The Writer's Podcast

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