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Romance Writer's Therapy97: You're Not Putting a Hat on That HatThe Highlights:I'm Being Productive, I PromiseKate Rambles for 5 Minutes to Tell You She's Working On Something NewDoes Anyone Read Anthologies?Just The Marty PartyOn Rushing EndingsThe Itty Bittiest of ProblemsWigged Out By HappinessGrab Five Pages and Flip All of ThenBringing Back the Idea of Making Characters FailFlashing A Nipple, Eight TimesIs Maine Cool?Order Kate Prior's new-release, Mated to My Ex! (Divorced fated mates, werewolves, knotting, all the good stuff.)Marty Vee's newest book Hazel and Elijah Find Out is now available. Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get Hazel and...2024-10-1553 minRomance Writer's Therapy96: This Episode Is Just For Kate to Sound Out Plot ProblemsTW: Rabies, Bites, ShotsThe Highlights:Edits Back from HeathitorMarty Just Keeps Writing (Overshot by 40k Words)None One Thinks They Like Second Chance RomancesGrounding Marty From 2nd Chance RomancesThe Same Kiss Ten Times OverKate Spoils The Rest of Her Next Book While Soundboarding Some Issues With ItCan't Escape the Workplace RomanceKate Will Never Pump Her Own Gas (New Jersey, Baby)Marty's Friend's Rabies StoryIf Every Scene Has to Be A TikTokOrder Kate Prior's new-release, Mated to My Ex! (Divorced fated mates, werewolves, knotting, all the good stuff.)Marty Vee's newest book...2024-10-0851 minRomance Writer's Therapy95: Friends Enable Each Other's HyperfixationsThe Highlights:East Coasters Are Weird About FallTreating Plot Like the Steel Armature Holding Up These Twelve Raccoons In a TrenchcoatMarty's Been Doing ThingsBabies' First Real Romance NovelsWe Pretend We're Gonna Talk About MFA's for A SecondKate's Once Again Trying to Learn AnimationFriends Enable Each Other's HyperfixationsIdentifying What Tools We're Over-Relying OnOrder Kate Prior's new-release, Mated to My Ex! (Divorced fated mates, werewolves, knotting, all the good stuff.)Marty Vee's newest book Hazel and Elijah Find Out is now available. Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get Hazel and Elijah Don't...2024-10-0139 minRomance Writer's Therapy94: Repetition, Social Media, and Tri-Pronged StrategyThe Highlights: There are No Right Directions, but There are Wrong OnesThe Suspense of WritingGoodreads Review Sheild for AuthorsYou Don't Have to Top the Last Thing You Did Every TimeTelling the Same Joke In Ten Different WaysIn Marketing You Don't Need to Reinvent the Wheel Every TimeSaying Something Besides "Buy My Book"ADHD'd Too Close to the Sun"You've Heard of Hello Kitty, Right?"Fully Fledged Human with HobbiesMarty Talks Ream PlansThe Browser Extension Kate Talks AboutOrder Kate Prior's new-release, Mated to My Ex! (Divorced fated mates, werewolves, knotting, all the good stuff.)2024-09-2446 minRomance Writer's Therapy93: Heather, Editing, and Everything ElseMarty and Kate bring Heather the Editor (Spellboundedits) on the show to talk about last minute edits, both sides of the process, how to find a qualified editor, and everything else they can think of. Order Kate Prior's new-release, Mated to My Ex! (Divorced fated mates, werewolves, knotting, all the good stuff.)Marty Vee's newest book Hazel and Elijah Find Out is now available. Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get Hazel and Elijah Don't Get Caucht for free!You can find Kate on threads @bykateprior and Instagram @bykateprior and M...2024-09-1758 minRomance Writer's Therapy92: Erasing the Words on The Whiteboard of My BrainThe Highlights Include:Insert Yourself with Some FanfictionWhen You're Unsatisfied with Your Happy Ending (That's What She Said)How To Make Friends OnlineThat Guy At the Concert Who SUCKEDBring Something You Love to the TableYes Kate Has Shared This Thought Before (I'm So Sure This Loop Thing Was On Last Week's Episode Too)Marty's Most Productive Work-Play CycleThe ADHD Brain Is Always Seeking StimulationReleasing Your Expectations of Your Manuscript Before EditingIt's Not Stealing If It's from Your Younger SelfExternal Validation Validating the Internal ValidatingFigure It Out, ListenerBob Ross's Famous Motto, "Fuck Around And Keep What You Like"The...2024-09-1051 minRomance Writer's Therapy90: You're Just Gonna Have to Go Get the HorseThe Highlights:Getting Vaguely Technical About Air ConditioningWeekly Reminder Kate is Bad at MathIt (Was) Too Dang HotWhen Did 40k Words Get In HereThe Book You Envision at the Start VS the Book That ManifestsWhen Does Character Motivation Come In?Infodumping VS Answering Questions as They Come UpJust Add a Dick to ItThe Real Brand Identity Is the Friends We Made Along the WayPlaying to The One Friend Who Laughs At Your JokesCURRENTLY NOT SPONSORED BY DROPOUT (But We Should Be)Actually Sit Down And Do Your WorksheetsThe Social Part of Social MediaThe Gap Between Social Media Metrics...2024-08-2752 minRomance Writer's Therapy89: Plot Second, Thirst FirstThe Highlights:How Romance Readers Play Minecraft Use Your Half-Started Ideas For a ChangeTheory about TikTok Theories Kate and Marty List Some Real Horny Shit Your Books NeedA Quick Treatise on InstaloveEverybody Looks Better with a Little Bit of Dirt on Their FaceYour Hero Can't Just Be HotBut He Better Have Some Fucking Hands On HimActs of Service Are SexyOrder Kate Prior's new-release, Mated to My Ex! (Divorced fated mates, werewolves, knotting, all the good stuff.)Marty Vee's newest book Hazel and Elijah Find Out is now available. Sign up for Marty's newsletter at he...2024-08-2052 minRomance Writer's Therapy88: Lowest Possible Threshold for a Successful Online ShopThe girls record their first episode together in Michigan! It's important to start this episode with a reminder with just how bad we are at math. Setting up an Etsy Vs. WoocommerceWhat to StockIntermittent Nail Polish BreaksHow to Run a GiveawayStrategies Around Engaging Your Reader GroupOrder Kate Prior's new-release, Mated to My Ex! (Divorced fated mates, werewolves, knotting, all the good stuff.)Marty Vee's newest book Hazel and Elijah Find Out is now available. Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get Hazel and Elijah Don't Get Caucht for free!2024-08-1347 minRomance Writer's Therapy87: Technically About Social MediaThe Highlights:New Recording Time, Who DisMarty's Dilemna: Two Books, One HEAKate Recaps the 2019 Tumblr Nose-DiveVanity Metrics VS. Backlog Awareness Long, Possibly Bad Shelved ProjectsBob Ross and the Order Of OperationSpending 10x the Time to Write A Sentence as A Reader Spends Reading ItInstead of a Mind Palace Kate Has A Mind TrashCanQuick Graphic Designer Tip (Interrupted)Kate Doesn't Read InstructionsBack to the Graphic Designer Tip For AuthorsMarty's Imaginary Social Media ManagerThe Tumblr Factoid Becomes Relevant HereOrder Kate Prior's new-release, Mated to My Ex! (Divorced fated mates, werewolves, knotting, all the good stuff.)Marty V...2024-08-0639 minRomance Writer's Therapy86: Career Deathtraps Disguised as Opportunities (and Some Marketing on the Side)The Highlights:Sometimes It's Better that an Opportunity Missed YouPublishing Is Intensely CyclicalStatistically, How Are You Doing?The Fruits of ConsistencySometimes You Have to Make Terrible Choices (For Your Sinuses)Who Would Have Guessed that Authors Run on Positive FeedbackDifferent Strategies for Writing SeriesCritically Acclaimed Holes Romance Subplot (2012)Pull Quotes Are Unnessarily HardBad Boys On BicyclesIt's Ok to Write the Indulgent StuffKate Loves Late ARC ReviewsMarty Doesn't DNF and TellWhat Even Is a Street TeamMarty Has Lost Center-Justified Text PrivilegesThe Gargoyle from General Management, the latest in Kate Prior's Claws and Cubicles series.Marty...2024-07-3047 minRomance Writer's Therapy85: A What's Left in Our Fridge Kind of EpisodeThe Highlights:We Don't Care for Episode TopicsGaslight Yourself Into Thinking Your Book is GoodMarty Forgot Her Dog Outside But It's FINEFOMO About BookCons When You Don't Even like Leading the HouseKate Hates NYC on an NJ LevelAuthor Group Chats are Good and Bad for LearningBite Off What You Can Chew, Despite FOMOCultivating Joy In A Writing CareerThe Importance of Good Reviews for Your SoulQuarterly Reminder to Read Bringing Down the DukeFigure Out If Your Standards for Success Are ReasonableMarty Is Writing the Christopher Nolan Equivalent of a Christmas Romance NovellaRomances that Ask You To Do Math""Do...2024-07-2341 minRomance Writer's Therapy84: We Ramble, ContinuousThe Highlights:Kate Can't Rawdog a Movie5 Minutes Straight of Explaining The AboveIt's Andrew's Podcast NowMarty's Plans for ReleaseRomancelandia DiscourseYou Can't Tell But We Edited Out The Part Where We Retcon Whatever The Episode Was Going to Be AboutIf You Read this Book WrongThe Metaphor Ran Away from MeOutlines Have A Strange DNFing Power Over MartyWhat If This Isn't Actually the Best Way to Begin this Book?Note for Future Kate: First Thought Best Thought When It Comes to Where You Start a StoryMarty's Thoughts on Breaking Long-Established Writer's AdviceThere's So Many Things You Have to Get RightThe...2024-07-1647 minRomance Writer's Therapy83: Bitchin about Bridgerton... ThriceKaterina Stone is back! Kate, Marty and Katerina chat about the last four episodes of Bridgerton season 3. They have some mixed feelings and hot takes! Prepare yourself, or don't, it's up to you.SPOILERS ABOUND! Watch Bridgerton season three before listening, but don't forget to listen. (And maybe read the first 5 books in the series… 'Kay, thanks!)Their assessment of season two is here!You can find Katerina Stone's hilarious tweets @stone_katerina and her Instagram @katerinastoneromance.The Gargoyle from General Management, the latest in Kate Prior's Claws and Cubicles series.2024-07-0957 minRomance Writer's Therapy82: Jami Albright On the Author BrandJami Albright joins Marty in this episode about understanding and presenting your author brand!Jami shares her expertise on the promise an author makes to their readers, figuring out what is the unique thing you offer in your writing/books, and pinning down your ideal reader. She not only give advice on how to build your brand, but actionable tasks to find it and understand it. CW, during the last ten or so minutes Jami touches on cancer, family member death, and the grieving process.Find Jami and her author-consulting business at https...2024-07-021h 07Romance Writer's Therapy81: Bitching About Bridgerton... TWO!!We're back with our lovely friend Katerina Stone, to do what we did last time. This time it's about season 3 (the first four episodes).Order Kate Prior's new-release, Mated to My Ex! (Divorced fated mates, werewolves, knotting, all the good stuff.)Marty Vee's newest book Hazel and Elijah Find Out is now available. Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get Hazel and Elijah Don't Get Caucht for free!You can find Kate on threads @bykateprior and Instagram @bykateprior and Marty on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor.2024-06-251h 06Romance Writer's Therapy80: What is Time with Lauren Connolly(hi marty, can you do the summary and change the title to something more specific? thanks!)Order Kate Prior's new-release, Mated to My Ex! (Divorced fated mates, werewolves, knotting, all the good stuff.)Marty Vee's newest book Hazel and Elijah Find Out is now available. Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get Hazel and Elijah Don't Get Caucht for free!You can find Kate on threads @bykateprior and Instagram @bykateprior and Marty on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor.This Episode is brought to you by...2024-06-181h 00