✨Emily Buchanan Wants You to Trust Your Intuition; & Hattie Williams on the Perils of Waiting for that "Big, Original, Mind-Blowing, High-Concept Idea"✨

✨Lidija Hilje, Attorney-Turned-Book-Coach-Turned-Novelist, Returns to the Pod; Pantsing, But Make it Next Level in Today's Essay; and Are You Paying Enough Attention to Setting? Lucy Foley Sure Is!✨

Query Critiques June 2025

✨"Get Over It," Take Your Work to the Toilet, & Other Writing Advice to Live By from Ashley Reams, Hannah Sharpe, & Tamara Yajiay✨

✨Niceness & Unicorns Need Not Apply: CeCe Shares the Secret to Piquing an Agent's Interest; and Bestseller Rachel Joyce Has Something She Wants You to Know✨

✨How Do You Know If Your Story Idea is Worth Pursuing? Jessica Trevelyan Has a One-Question Test for That✨

✨Still Not Convinced You Can Cut All That Backstory? Aisling Rawle's Breakout Debut Proves What Our Hosts Have Been Saying All Along✨

✨Solving the Mystery of How to Write Compelling Whodunnits with E.C. Nevin's "Suspect Equation"✨

✨Michelle Huneven Wants You to Know "Where All the Fun Is" (Hint: It's NOT at the Top of the Bestseller List)✨

✨Riley Sager Answers YOUR Questions; and From Touching Grass to Bleeding Screens: Alina Khawaja on How to Recharge Your Writing✨

✨This Week on the Pod: Multiple-Genre Master and Generous & Unfailing Champion of Emerging Authors Everywhere...Our Very Own Bianca Marais!✨

✨Marie Rutkoski Shares Her "Questionable" ( 😉) Secret to Hooking Readers and Driving Plot✨