Your Mid-Book Crisis, on the Oddcast

Wherein we present a round-table discussion about the middles of novels (and stories), which are often the most frustrating to writers, where one is beset by the Dark Night of Despair. Join Liars Club members Kelly Simmons, Jon McGoran, Merry Jones, Keith Strunk, and me as once again we try to save the world (of writing).

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Eric Smith on the Oddcast

Eric Smith on the Oddcast

Author, literary agent, blogger, and anthologist Eric Smith joins the Oddcast to discuss writing, publishing, and his books The Geek’s Guide to Dating and The Girl & the Grove, due out spring 2018, as well as Welcome Home: An Anthology of Love and Adoption. Find out how Eric juggles all that and a baby, on this week’s Oddcast.

Stephen Fried & Diane Ayres Amaze the Oddcast

Award-winning journalist & non-fiction author Stephen Fried and novelist Diane Ayres have been married for thirty years. Find out how they work together and apart in this perfect relationship, who edits who, how Stephen came to collaborate with Patrick J. Kennedy, and how he coined the term “fashionista” (now in dictionaries everywhere), all on this week’s Oddcast.

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