Kate has been working hard on our next episode of this season, but the silly file is causing her trouble. So, enjoy this repost, and know that we'll have a conversation with Katie of Cheap Smut Podcast just as soon as we can! This episode, Marty and Kate talk about: The Outside Is Attacking Us (Allergies)Marty Isn't DNFing Out of SpiteMarty F's Around with Prequels and Finds Out She Should Write More Sideboob LogisticsKate and Marty Are Really Having An Easy Time Writing Books for Once a...

The Highlights Take One Was Just Primal Screaming For A BitThe Problem With Looking Back At Where You WereMarty's Had A YearPondering On SetbacksReminding Yourself Of The MarathonWhat Is the Next Thing That's Going to Make Me Happy, In This Process?Kate Hasn't Forgotten That One File She Lost 10 Years agoEdits Lost to the Ether Some Chapters Have to Get Worked On Order Kate Prior's new-release, Mated to My Ex! (Divorced fated mates, werewolves, knotting, all the good stuff.) Marty Vee'...

The Highlights: AI DogwhistlesTestimonial MarketingFucking Ai Invading Every Facet Of Our Lives AND FOR WHATAccutely Aware of Perception Being Affected By MoodDissecting "If You Don't Enjoy Writing It, Will Readers Enjoy Reading It"I Don't Need It To Be ImperfectIt's Kinda Your Fault, KateLong And Winding Thought about the Dunning-Kruger EffectLooking for the Bad LiningHow Many Times Can You Point Out The Gun On The WallOrder Kate Prior's new-release, Mated to My Ex! (Divorced fated mates, we...

The Highlights: Nintendogs Wasn't RealProof That You're FunnyAndrew Could Do Heart Surgery, ProbablyFear of A Free ChairMarty's Soliloquy The Quit Your Dayjob Gremlin Comes BackNot Everyone's Goals Are Your GoalsDon't Forget That Roxie Noir Can Parallel ParkKate Mumbles About Refridgerator TastesAnd Someday, You'll Take Your Last BreathKate's Really Stuck on This Refridgerator ThingWhat Would Being A Full-Time Author Look Like In Your LifeHaunted By What We Don't KnowPeople Like Physical...

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 SimplySpellBoundE...

*The book events discussed are BookHarvest2025 which both Marty and Kate pulled out of later in the year, and Monsterotica2025. **Apologies for Kate's horrendous audio, she hated listening to it too The Highlights: Impromptu Reminder We've Got Reasonable RatesEverything Kate Learned About Book Events All At OnceNeither A Boat Nor A Train, But A Secret Third ThingTicket VS Book MathExpected Free Stickers Put That In Your Tax DeductionsBook Carts are No JokeNo One Wants To Be Fuckin...

The Highlights: Boob Assisted DeviceDon't Take That Tone With Me, BookGenre-Specific Writing Advice, RevisitedParallel RailsThey Don't Know They're Sitting On Memory FoamThe Cliche is There Because It's A DelightMarty Recommends 7 Figure Fiction for the 1000th TimeForearms, You Little SlutPlaying 4D Chess with My PsycheA Quick Moral Crisis About Social Media PlatformsOrder Kate Prior's new-release, Mated to My Ex! (Divorced fated mates, werewolves, knotting, all the good stuff.) Marty Vee's ...

The Highlights: We've Been Corny the Whole TimeYour Woo Stuff is Different from My Woo StuffFactually Correct Jokes Are Always Funnier2025 Bingo ResolutionsBook Release FomoOne 150k Word Book VS Three 50k Word BooksKate's Theory About Genre-Specific Writing AdviceTo Monologue Or Not To MonologueLemme Off the Leash BossThe Seed Oils Thing Is Barely RelevantOrder Kate Prior's new-release, Mated to My Ex! (Divorced fated mates, werewolves, knotting, all the good stuff.) Marty Vee's newest book ...

The Highlights: Get Your Vitamin DBooks Finally Getting TitlesThe Worst Draft Marty's Ever Written It Can Have A Bad Ending The First Time AroundNo Citations, Thank You The Narratives We Spin For OurselvesBrains Suck, Man (Still Better than AI, Though)Tonally Off-PuttingAndrew Could Not Land a 747Knowing Your Characters: Before or After the Book Ends?Confidence Vs Anxiety: You're Lying to Yourself Either WayOrder Kate Prior's new-release, Mated to My Ex! (Divorced fated mates,...

The Highlights: Weirdly Aggressive Towards Other KatesI Love It But I Hate ItDish Towel Scootin'Working Out Timeline Issues On AirComing Back to a Project You've Grown Out OfDynamic Vs Static Scenes (Things Should Happen In Stories, Duh)We Spend A Lot of Time On Camera Angles as Metaophor for StorytellingTime As One of the Best Editing ToolsGrow Apathetic About Your Darlings Before KillingDon't You Hate It When Things Fall Into PlaceHow Do You Decide Your Work is Worthy?Other People Will Also...

The Highlights: Mushrooms, Menoras, GnomesJanuary is Too Short, ActuallyYear Long Calender...2!!!Not Kool Aid Man Shenanigans The Fear of "No One Would Actually Say That"Sexy is, Unforuntately, SubjectiveDan Rathers Based Dirty TalkHe Only Talks in The Bedroom (Marty's Pet Peeve)I Don't Think He's Earned "Daddy" PrivilegesExperiencing The Same Gamechanger Tiktok Together, WeeklyOrder Kate Prior's new-release, Mated to My Ex! (Divorced fated mates, werewolves, knotting, all the good stuff...

This episode was recorded back in January, but Kate ADHD'd for like 6 months straight, in true Kate fashion. We're so back. But writing advice has no expiration date! (Or does it?) Here's the highlights: Try Writing A Different Way Than You Normally DoUnder 200 Words That Made Me AngryBreak Rules For Good ReasonsNot Everyone Should Write Like YouMany Different Kinds of DumplingsRealizing You Can Just Have DessertWe're Actually Not Sure What Makes It Literary FictionAt 36 Minutes In We R...

This year's Finale Episode, we've looked at each other and tried to imagine what we want to see what directions we want to see each other's writing journeys and author careers go. 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 @bykate...

The 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 ...

TW: Rabies, Bites, Shots The Highlights: Edits Back from HeathitorMarty Just Keeps Writing (Overshot by 40k Words)No 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 ...

The 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 V...

The 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 About Order Kat...

Marty 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 ...

The 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 f...

The Highlights: The Novelty of Finishing Things On TimeSocial Media Calendar SoftwareCharacters Failing Makes them More InterestingTry-Fail CyclesThe Inevitable Unlikeable Heroine Trap Continuing to Beat This Cart Before the Horse Elijah Was Never A Bad BoyOrder 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 t...