The First Draft Club

128 Episodes

1. S08 E10 How Much Can You Make in Foreign Rights - My Story (with Actual Dollar Amounts!)

   Published: 2/12/2025
2. S08 E09 Special Guests! Welcome, the Podcast is a Gameshow Now

   Published: 2/5/2025
3. S08 E08 Is Revision Sucking? Two Strategies to Make It Joyful Again

   Published: 1/29/2025
4. S08 E07 Killing Your Non-Darlings in Revision

   Published: 1/22/2025
5. S08 E06 How to Write a Timeless Book (Whatever That Means)

   Published: 1/15/2025
6. S08 E05 All the Numbers in Publishing No One Talks About

   Published: 12/18/2024
7. S08 E04 My Top 5 Books of 2024 as a Writer

   Published: 12/11/2024
8. S08 E03 How to Fix an 80% Good Book Getting Rejections

   Published: 12/4/2024
9. S08 E02 Why You Can Write an Amazing Book That Doesn't Get Published

   Published: 11/27/2024
10. S08 E01 The Black List: The new publishing shortcut for aspiring novelists

    Published: 11/20/2024
11. S07 E12 3 Things to Know about Copyright & a Scam to Avoid if You’re Self-Publishing

    Published: 6/13/2024
12. S07 E11 Should You Hire a Book Publicist?

    Published: 5/30/2024
13. S07 E10 How Much I Was Paid for My First Novel & Why I Don't Think Big Publishing is Dead

    Published: 5/16/2024
14. S07 E09 The #1 Resource for When You're Querying

    Published: 5/2/2024
15. S07 E08 The Lean-In Method for Assessing Feedback

    Published: 4/18/2024
16. S07 E07 The Real Secret to Writing Your Best Possible Book

    Published: 4/4/2024
17. S07 E06 Rufi Thorpe (with Mary) on How to Control Your Reader's Mind

    Published: 3/28/2024
18. S07 E05 Interview with Psychologist & Author Joe Sanok on How to Get Your Book Written

    Published: 3/21/2024
19. S07 E04 3 Publishing Myths that Are Making Me Mad

    Published: 3/14/2024
20. S07 E03 Here it is...the Novel-Writing Tool I Invented in 2023!

    Published: 3/7/2024