Romance Writer's Therapy

This episode, Marty and Kate talk about:

• The Outside Is Attacking Us (Allergies)
• Marty Isn't DNFing Out of Spite
• Marty F's Around with Prequels and Finds Out She Should Write More 
• Sideboob Logistics
• Kate and Marty Are Really Having An Easy Time Writing Books for Once and Are Really Confused About It
• Marty Sets Some Really Wild Challenges for Herself
• Surprising No One, Marty is an Extrovert, Kate is an Introvert
• Making Friends Or Writing Books
• Reflecting On Ways Our Lives Have Changed Over The Last Couple Years
• 24 Minutes in We Get to the Point of the Episode
• Defining Success Outside of Captialism
• Nail Break
• Also You Can't Really Remove Capitalism from the Equation, Yet
• If You Really Knew What Your Dream Entailed, Would You Still Want It?
• Put Pressure On Yourself Like Everyone's Watching, Even If They Aren't
• Don't Love It When Things Happen to Me
• Leaving in the Ice Noises Specifically For You 
• Film Degrees Are Pretty Useless

The Orc from the Office is Kate Prior's latest novella. Or check out her website at www.kate-prior.com.

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You can find Kate on Twitter @bykateprior, and Instagram @bykateprior, and Tiktok @bykateprior. Marty can be found on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor.

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Pre-Order Kate Prior's newest book, Mated to My One Night Stand, where a fateful hookup reveals Logan's mate, but Ava wants nothing to do with him. 

Marty Vee's newest book A Bitter Suite Divide is out now! Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get Entirely Yours for free!

You can find Kate on threads @bykateprior and Instagram @bykateprior and Marty on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor.

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This episode, we talk about:

• When the ADHD Hyperfixation Wears Off / Burnout
• Is Self Publishing Actually Democratizing the Industry? Or Are we Creating Micro-Class Barriers
• You Should Strong Arm Your Way Into Situations
• 16 Minutes In And Kate Still Hasn't Explained Episode's Conceit
• When It's Ok To Not Accept Criticism
• TikToks Take FOREVER to Make
• Quizilla and LinkedIn are the Only Valid Social Medias
• Kate Realizes In Real Time The Thing She Wanted To Talk About Is Possibly Not That Relatable
• This Episode Was About Receiving Edits, It's Now About Cleaning
• Our Conversation Circumnavigates A Really Great Point About Pay-to-Win Video Game Dynamics and the Earlier Point About Micro-Class Barriers BUT IT'S FINE
• Picking Up Hobbies And Immediately Dropping Them
• Learning To Enjoy Not Being Good At A Thing

The Orc from the Office is Kate Prior's latest novella. Or check out her website at www.kate-prior.com.

Get Marty's latest novel Just Fake Married.

Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get "You and Me in Quarantine" for free!

You can find Kate on Twitter @bykateprior, and Instagram @bykateprior, and Tiktok @bykateprior. Marty can be found on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor.

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Pre-Order Kate Prior's newest book, Mated to My One Night Stand, where a fateful hookup reveals Logan's mate, but Ava wants nothing to do with him. 

Marty Vee's newest book A Bitter Suite Divide is out now! Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get Entirely Yours for free!

You can find Kate on threads @bykateprior and Instagram @bykateprior and Marty on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor.

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The podcast starts off talking about Shoshana's new book, The Desert Heiress, when the conversation immediately takes a turn into video games. We talk about the ways this book differed from her first series, romantasy books vs fantasy books with romance arcs, balancing worldbuilding/plot vs relationships in romance/fantasy, the importance of building a backlist, the spectrum of writing to market vs the book of your heart.

Pre-Order Kate Prior's newest book, Mated to My One Night Stand, where a fateful hookup reveals Logan's mate, but Ava wants nothing to do with him. 

Marty Vee's newest book A Bitter Suite Divide is out now! Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get Entirely Yours for free!

You can find Kate on threads @bykateprior and Instagram @bykateprior and Marty on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor.

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Today's episode is at least partly about writing while life is happening, but also:
BEEFY chapters and Amazing Critique Group Dynamics
The Glorification of Overwriting and Writing Speeds
Book Launches During Family Events (TW: death mention, funerals)
Emailing You From My Sickbed
Washing the Dishes But It's a Character Moment
What It Means to Learn Your Writing Process
Books/Authors We're Currently Reading
Good Books with Bad Summaries
It's Ok To Be A Little Judgey
Marty's Nutrition of Analysing
Don't Follow Her Advice, Follow Mine

Apologies for how utterly terribly Kate's audio is, she keeps messing with her mic settings and has not learned to stop.

The Orc from the Office is Kate Prior's latest novella. Or check out her website at www.kate-prior.com.

Get Marty's latest novel Just Fake Married.

Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get "You and Me in Quarantine" for free!

You can find Kate on Twitter @bykateprior, and Instagram @bykateprior, and Tiktok @bykateprior. Marty can be found on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor.

Please subscribe and rate our podcast, it helps us reach new listeners.

Pre-Order Kate Prior's newest book, Mated to My One Night Stand, where a fateful hookup reveals Logan's mate, but Ava wants nothing to do with him. 

Marty Vee's newest book A Bitter Suite Divide is out now! Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get Entirely Yours for free!

You can find Kate on threads @bykateprior and Instagram @bykateprior and Marty on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor.

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Enjoy this repost:

They're back! In this episode, Kate and Marty discuss the age-old advice of "throwing out" the first book you write. They talk about their first attempts at writing books: everything that makes them want to forget that first manuscript, and all the things keeping it on the shelf. And about a dozen tangents in between.

Get Marty's debut novella Truth or Daire.

Get Love, Laugh, Lich, Kate Prior's novella.

Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get You and Me in Quarantine for free!

You can find Kate on Twitter @bykateprior, and Instagram @bykateprior, and Tiktok @bykateprior. Marty can be found on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor.

Please subscribe and rate our podcast, it helps us reach new listeners.

Pre-Order Kate Prior's newest book, Mated to My One Night Stand, where a fateful hookup reveals Logan's mate, but Ava wants nothing to do with him. 

Marty Vee's newest book A Bitter Suite Divide is out now! Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get Entirely Yours for free!

You can find Kate on threads @bykateprior and Instagram @bykateprior and Marty on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor.

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Kate and Marty chat about writing rules; and why there are no laws while using loosely accurate examples and saying the wrong term. Enjoy their new use for the semi-colon; and the revival of an olden-times dialogue tag. (IYKYK)

The Orc from the Office is Kate Prior's latest novella. Or check out her website at www.kate-prior.com.

Get Marty's latest novel Just Fake Married.

Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get "You and Me in Quarantine" for free!

You can find Kate on Twitter @bykateprior, and Instagram @bykateprior, and Tiktok @bykateprior. Marty can be found on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor.

Please subscribe and rate our podcast, it helps us reach new listeners.

Pre-Order Kate Prior's newest book, Mated to My One Night Stand, where a fateful hookup reveals Logan's mate, but Ava wants nothing to do with him. 

Marty Vee's newest book A Bitter Suite Divide is out now! Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get Entirely Yours for free!

You can find Kate on threads @bykateprior and Instagram @bykateprior and Marty on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor.

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If the girls sound a little low energy, it's because we're talking about Burnout.

We talk about:

The Sims and Melting Computers
Taking Time Away from A Project
Feeling Off Balance After A Project
Forgetting Your Characters' Names
A Milkshake as the Ultimate Romantic Gesture
Marty's Love of Emily Henry
Actionable Items for Your Bitching
Gaslighting Your Readers Is Always An Option
Sequels Are Hard Part 2
Peaking Young Is Bad
Manually Lowering The Bar for Yourself

The Orc from the Office is Kate Prior's latest novella. Or check out her website at www.kate-prior.com.

Get Marty's latest novel Just Fake Married.

Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get "You and Me in Quarantine" for free!

You can find Kate on Twitter @bykateprior, and Instagram @bykateprior, and Tiktok @bykateprior. Marty can be found on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor.

Please subscribe and rate our podcast, it helps us reach new listeners.

Pre-Order Kate Prior's newest book, Mated to My One Night Stand, where a fateful hookup reveals Logan's mate, but Ava wants nothing to do with him. 

Marty Vee's newest book A Bitter Suite Divide is out now! Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get Entirely Yours for free!

You can find Kate on threads @bykateprior and Instagram @bykateprior and Marty on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor.

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We Discuss:
Checking the Pulse of Your Book
Titling your Book AND your Fictional Towns
Kate Struggles against the Idea of Fictional National Parks Bone Town and its Many Mile Markers
Reading Only the First and Last Sentences of Paragraphs
One-Sentence Emails
It's Weird to Have an Epilogue, It's Also Weird When You Don't
Kate Rambles about Tessa Dare Books Intermittently
Being Expirianced In Reading Endings

The Orc from the Office is Kate Prior's latest novella. Or check out her website at www.kate-prior.com.

Get Marty's latest novel Just Fake Married.

Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get "You and Me in Quarantine" for free!

You can find Kate on Twitter @bykateprior, and Instagram @bykateprior, and Tiktok @bykateprior. Marty can be found on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor.

Please subscribe and rate our podcast, it helps us reach new listeners.

Pre-Order Kate Prior's newest book, Mated to My One Night Stand, where a fateful hookup reveals Logan's mate, but Ava wants nothing to do with him. 

Marty Vee's newest book A Bitter Suite Divide is out now! Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get Entirely Yours for free!

You can find Kate on threads @bykateprior and Instagram @bykateprior and Marty on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor.

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Marty talks about twists with Darcy Monroe. As well as being the nerdiest little nerds in their hometown, their love of cinnamon roll heroes, and reading "steamy" romance at a young age.

Find Darcy at https://darcymonroewriter.wordpress.com/ or her book The Hall of Art and Pleasure

Get Marty's latest novel Just Fake Married.

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You can find Kate on Twitter @bykateprior, and Instagram @bykateprior, and Tiktok @bykateprior. Marty can be found on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor.

Please subscribe and rate our podcast, it helps us reach new listeners.

Pre-Order Kate Prior's newest book, Mated to My One Night Stand, where a fateful hookup reveals Logan's mate, but Ava wants nothing to do with him. 

Marty Vee's newest book A Bitter Suite Divide is out now! Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get Entirely Yours for free!

You can find Kate on threads @bykateprior and Instagram @bykateprior and Marty on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor.

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Hey listeners, this week, Kate dug this episode from the back of the fridge, under the bed, behind the dishwasher, and some forgotten corner of her hard drive to bring you this mystery meet of an episode from JANUARY. Hopefully this year.

Have fun, who knows what this one is about.

The Orc from the Office is Kate Prior's latest novella. Or check out her website at www.kate-prior.com.

Get Marty's latest novel Just Fake Married.

Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get "You and Me in Quarantine" for free!

You can find Kate on Twitter @bykateprior, and Instagram @bykateprior, and Tiktok @bykateprior. Marty can be found on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor.

Please subscribe and rate our podcast, it helps us reach new listeners.

Pre-Order Kate Prior's newest book, Mated to My One Night Stand, where a fateful hookup reveals Logan's mate, but Ava wants nothing to do with him. 

Marty Vee's newest book A Bitter Suite Divide is out now! Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get Entirely Yours for free!

You can find Kate on threads @bykateprior and Instagram @bykateprior and Marty on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor.

Please subscribe and rate our podcast, it helps us reach new listeners!