Writes4Women Podcast

In this episode host Pamela Cook shares her top ten writing craft books, plus a couple of bonus titles. If you want to see the books, you can actually watch the video on the Writes4Women YouTube channel, and you can find the video on YouTube or right hereon the Writes4Women website (scroll down).

Whether you're a newbie writer or more experienced you're sure to find something of interest in this top ten list which includes books on inspiration, plotting, showing not telling, Nanowrimo and more.

Pamela also gives her personal writing update and reviews what's coming up on the podcast.

Grab your notebook, a pen and a cuppa and join Pam for this solo episode of Writes4Women.

Annie Seaton is an award-winning Australian author, and her inspiration comes from the beauty of the Australian landscape that she sees around her on her many and varied travels.

Annie has written many books in series format, as well as stand-alones and she's managed to straddle the traditional and indie divide to become a successful hybrid author. She has a mind-boggling writing schedule and also a business in editing and graphic design.

Annie also has a release coming out very soon, Osprey Reef, which we're going to get to talk to her about as well.

Today's episode is a combined Heart of Writing and New Release episode. My guest on the Convo Couch is Ann Shin.

Ann lives in Toronto with two daughters and her partner and she's a documentary and filmmaker as well as an author.

Her documentary, The Defector: Escape from North Korea won multiple awards for Best Documentary and Best Documentary Director and was made in conjunction with the writing of her novel, The Last Exiles.

The Defector: Escape from North Korea is a heart in your mouth documentary in which Ann plays an active part. The Last Exiles is set in a part of the world many of us know nothing about. It's a portrait of a young couple in North Korea and their fight for love and freedom. Inspired by real stories of incredible bravery, it's a stunning debut about love, sacrifice and the price of liberty.

Join Ann and Pam on The Convo Couch to find out more about the film, the book and what's at the heart of Ann's writing.

Today's episode is a Craft of Writing episode with Angela Ackerman, co-author of eight best-selling resource books printed in eight different languages through which she shares her passion for the writing craft.

As any writer knows, conflict is the engine of fiction and Angela has a wealth of information on how we can use it to power up our writing.

Angela also takes us on a tour of the onstopforwriters.com website which has a myriad of resources authors can use to create compelling characters and page-turning plots.

Join Pam and Angela on The Convo Couch as they talk all about conflict.

Welcome to a very special episode of Writes4Women.

Last week I had the pleasure of recording this episode with Dani Vee, Claudine Tinellis, Ashley Kalagian Blunt and Allison Tait. Those of you who love to listen to writing and reading podcasts might recognise some of those names.

We were getting together to celebrate the 400th episode of the Words and Nerds podcast produced and hosted by Dani Vee. It was really such a pleasure to be able to celebrate this occasion with Dani. She's a prolific podcaster, a fabulous author, reader, and promoter of Australian writing.

Dani chose to release this episode on the anniversary week of her very, very special podcast. She also very kindly offered for us to release the episode on our own feeds, and I thought this would be a great opportunity for you to hear from myself and the other podcasters on why we do what we do, and how we do it.

This one is a New Release/Business of writing episode with Jodi Gibson.

Jodi is an author of contemporary women's fiction, or as she likes to call it, fiction with all the feels. Her debut novel was The Memories We Hide, independently published in August, 2019. Her next novel, The Five Year Plan is a lighter women's fiction title and combines travel, food and romance.

Pam chats to Jodi about the book, her author brand and the business of marketing.

Today's episode is the September Heart of Writing episode. And my guest is Terri Connellan.

Terri works with women globally through her creative business, Quiet Writing, encouraging deep self-understanding of body-of-work, creativity and psychological type for more wholehearted and fulfilling life.

Terri supports women in writing and publishing their whole hearted stories and her new book, Wholehearted: Self-leadership for Women in Transition, is out now

Join Pam and Terri on The Convo Couch as they chat about this whole community Terri is building around this idea of being wholehearted.

Welcome to another episode of Writes4Women. This one is a mashup of a Heart of Writing, Craft of Writing and New Release episode featuring debut author, Hannah Bent. Hannah's book, When Things Are Alive They Hum has recently been released to great critical acclaim.

Pam chats to Hannah about the inspiration for the book, her writing process and her experiences as a debut author.

In this Craft of Writing episode Pam chats to Emily Maguire on characterisation in her latest novel Love Objects.

The Saturday Paper says this of the characterisation in Love Objects:

One of the most compelling elements of this accomplished book is Maguire's ability to completely inhabit a character.

There's so much great advice in this episode on how to inhabit your character's skin.

Grab a cuppa and join Pam and Emily on the Writes4Women Convo Couch.

Welcome to the August New Release Feature Author episode

Mary-Lou Stephens has worked as an actor, singer, radio presenter, and music director in both commercial radio and at the ABC here in Australia. Now Mary works as a novelist.

The Last of the Apple Blossom was published by Harper Collins, just a couple of weeks ago.

Today's guest is Alka Joshi, author of The Henna Artist and The Secret Keeper of Jaipur. Born in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, in India, Alka has lived in the U S since the age of nine. She spent many years working in advertising and marketing copy after being encouraged by her husband to try writing fiction.

In just over 12 months Alka has amassed 15,000 followers on Instagram. Her posts are colorful and animated, like her book covers, and feature video interviews with fellow authors. They're posts that make you want to click and find out more, just as her books make you want to keep reading.

Join Alka and Pam on the Convo Couch as they discuss Alka's books, of course, and the world of author branding, social media, and in particular, Instagram.

Something a little different on The Convo Couch today.

Pam talks to Indie Authors Rania Battany and Michelle Montebello about republishing a previously published book.

Michelle Montebello is the international best-selling award-winning author of The Quarantine Station, Beautiful, Fragile and the The Lost Letters of Playfair Street.

Rania Battany is a romance author who loves to build real characters and engage her readers with stories they can relate to while offering a book that tugs at the heartstrings.

Join Rania, Michelle and Pam on The Convo Couch as they sort out the the pros and cons of republishing.