Happy Halloween! Darren Shan talks horror with us in this bonus episode, made possible by our Patreon supporters.
Fifteen minutes long, because you're in a hurry, and we're not that smart.
Victoria Schwab, who also writes as V.E. Schwab, joined us in Phoenix to talk about crossover fiction—in this context the term means books that target a given demographic but which have a much broader appeal, or books which straddle the line between age demographics. We discuss some good crossover examples,…
Media Specialist Kiley Snyder joins us to talk about hooking young readers.
E.J. Patten joins us again, this to discuss the particulars of writing middle-grade fiction.
Scott Westerfeld joins Brandon and Howard for a discussion of the visual components of novels.
Janci Patterson and Robison Wells have both sold books very recently. Brandon and Dan put them on the spot and ask how they did it.
Jessica Day George joins the Writing Excuses crew again, this time for a discussion of writing for young adults, and maybe for teens, or even middle-grade readers. This isn’t a podcast about rigidly defining the boundary between the YA and middle-grade genres, though. That’s publishing. We’re talking about writing. If you…