Episodes
234
Latest episode
Aug 2026
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EN-CA
Author and writing coach Kevin T. Johns interviews the instructors, editors, coaches, and mentors that help writers and authors create their art, build their audience, and sell their work.
<p>Marvin Wey, co-founder of AuthorScale, on the two proven social media formats selling books right now, how to find the scenes in your own manuscript worth promoting, and why he thinks marketing and writing should stay two different jobs.</p>
<p>Spiritual director Charlotte Donlon on the rituals, permission, and belonging that keep writers out of burnout and the two-minute practice she uses daily.</p>
<p>J.E. Sheasby joins The Writing Coach to explore AI, sentience, futuristic crime, worldbuilding, and the decade-long journey behind his ambitious sci-fi series.</p>
<p>After thirty years and 140 rejected literary agents, Rob Cole self-published the authorized biography of Arlinda Willis, a story of Jim Crow Alabama, Cleveland's Black entertainment scene, and the medical racism that shaped her final years.</p>
<p>Kevin T. Johns interviews Nathan Lang, Barbados resident, hospitality expert, and co-host of the November 2026 Barbados Writing Retreat, about what writers can expect from five days on the Platinum Coast.</p>
<p>Book marketing strategist and podcaster Susan Friedman joins Kevin Johns to talk about why marketing is a long game, how fiction and nonfiction require different strategies, the power of niche positioning and “micro-celebrity,” and why passion and mindset matter more than any single tactic.</p>
<p>Longtime editor and first-time novelist Candace Johnson joins The Writing Coach Podcast to share insider insights on traditional publishing, what copy editors really do, how to know when your manuscript is ready for editing, and how to build a strong author–editor relationship without losing your voice.</p>
<p>Graphic novelist Emil Wilson joins Kevin Johns to discuss his stunning debut, The Nightingales, a sketchbook-style, semi-autobiographical story about family, memory, AIDS, queer identity, and empathy. They dive into visual storytelling, composition, colour, humanizing “antagonists,” and how Emil’s background in advertising and design shaped this powerful, genre-bending book.</p>
<p>Oscar-winning producer Steven Puri shares Hollywood storytelling lessons, flow states, and dopamine management tactics to help writers beat procrastination and finish their work.</p>
<p>Author Susan Leon discusses her debut novel If They’d Only Known, crime fiction, grief, forgiveness, Northern Ontario, and the ripple effects of loss.</p>
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