Episode 24 - Unfortunately... It's Never Gonna Be Perfect with @jenniferhudak.bsky.social is out now! #WritingCommunity #WritingPodcast #SFFWriters

This is such a great podcast, and always love hearing what @jenniferhudak.bsky.social has to say!

I had a blast chatting with @courtney-floyd.com and @monawest.bsky.social about learning and growing from failure, art that takes as long as it takes, and how it's important to let yourself suck at something.

We have one more guest interview this season, and it's a phenomenal one. Tune in this Friday for the rest of our chat with @jenniferhudak.bsky.social!

Episode 23: Unfortunately... The Book of Your Heart is Not on Trend with @emilyzipps.bsky.social is out now! #WritingPodcast #WritingCommunity

Episode 23 with @emilyzipps.bsky.social is out tomorrow (in just a few more hours really)! Here's a preview:

New episode day!!! Unfortunately... If You Force the Zipper, it Won't Budge with @piperlwhite.bsky.social is out now! We had such a blast chatting with Piper about the fact that everything is writing, the genre wars, and debut year! #WritingCommunity #WritingPodcast

In tomorrow's episode, we're chatting with debut author @piperlwhite.bsky.social about all of the varied ways we write, moving between genres and modes, and lots more. Here's a little preview! #WritingPodcast #WritingCommunity

New episode! Unfortunately... It's an Economy of Favors with Lacey Dunham is available wherever you listen to podcasts. Thank you so much to @bookbent.bsky.social for joining us! #WritingCommunity #WritingPodcast

On tomorrow's episode, with guest @bookbent.bsky.social, we're chatting publishing, precarity, and privilege. Lacey's debut dark academia, The Belles, is out as of last week -- help her celebrate debut month by snagging a copy or requesting at your library! #WritingCommunity #WritingPodcast

Including the link might have been helpful 😂

We had a delay, but episode 20 is finally here! Listen to *Unfortunately... It's Like Army Crawling Through 30 Inches of Snow* with guest author, Rebecca Danzenbaker, wherever you get you podcasts. #WritingCommunity #WritingPodcast

While we were out at WorldCon, our latest episode dropped! Check out Episode 19: Unfortunately... You Need a Suitcase Full of Skills with @lisatirrenoauthor.bsky.social!

Here's a preview of Friday's episode, with @lisatirrenoauthor.bsky.social. We chat about coming to writing from journalism, gamifying rejections, and so much more! #WritingCommunity #WritingPodcast

The publishing anxiety is so real.

It's a new episode day! We chatted with debut author Alysha Rameera about the feeling of not being enough to write your culture, how vital work-life balance can be in writing, and our strategies for managing publishing anxiety. #WritingPodcast #WritingCommunity pnc.st/s/unfortunat...

Our Unfortunately... episode is now live! Really loved chatting with Courtney and Mona about our journey and the unique ups and downs of being co-writers.

Episode 17 is out now! We chat with @mkhardywrites.com, co-authors of debut Sapphic Gothic Horror, The Needfire (out 7/31!), about co-writing & editing, managing disagreements, & creating community. #WritingPodcasts #WritingCommunity pnc.st/s/unfortunat...

This Friday our latest episode with @mkhardywrites.com hits the feed. We had a fantastic chat about co-writing, editing, navigating the industry with optimism, and building community! #WritingPodcast #WritingCommunity

woohoo! had a lot of fun talking about writing, journey, quitting and more!

New episode day! Listen to Ep 16 - Progress isn't an Upward Slope with @rukman.bsky.social here: pnc.st/s/unfortunat... #WritingCommunity #WritingPodcast

New episode tomorrow! Here's a preview of our conversation with author @rukman.bsky.social, who braved a storm and internet issues to chat with us the importance of complexity in representation, getting paid, why it's okay to quit, survivorship bias, and so much more. #WritingCommunity

I had the honor of being a guest on the Unfortunately...Podcast! If you're a writer who has ever gotten an "Unfortunately..." message, this podcast is for you! It's a writer to writer discussion about craft and how we learn from failures. Here's my episode, but you should listen to them all!

It has unironically been such a joy to commiserate with so many amazing and gracious writers. Failure loves company, so give us a listen!

I've enjoyed listening to this podcast just as much as being a guest on it!

Oh, also, we chugged past a milestone over the weekend... Thank you so much for listening! #WritingCommunity #WritingPodcast

Our scheduled post failed, but YOU didn't listeners -- delighted to see that a bunch of you found our episode with @sasahawk.bsky.social over the weekend. If you missed it, listen here: pnc.st/s/unfortunat... #WritingPodcasts #WritingCommunity #NewEpisode

How about a little preview of our next episode (out Friday!) for your Tuesday scroll? We chatted with @sasahawk.bsky.social about identifying your own patterns, plotting vs pantsing, writing synopses, genre labels as marketing tools, promo strategies, and more! #WritingCommunity #WritingPodcast

Our latest episode, with @roselynclarkebooks.bsky.social, is out now. We chat deadlines, post-deal writing slumps, advocating for yourself as an introvert, and anxiety and mental health. #NewEpisode #WritingCommunity #WritingPodcast pnc.st/s/unfortunat...

I'm so glad we got to chat with @roselynclarkebooks.bsky.social about post-deal writing slumps, advocating for yourself as an introvert, and ESPECIALLY anxiety and mental health in the publishing industry. Keep an ear out, next Friday. 🚂

*A wild preview drops on the timeline.* Episode 14 with the fantastic @roselynclarkebooks.bsky.social, is out next Friday. And Roselyn's debut NOW SHE'S DEAD is out on Tuesday! Ahhh! Find out more at roselynclarke.com/books #WritingCommunity #WritingPodcasts #BookSky

Have you listened to @unfortunatelypod.bsky.social ? The latest episode certainly gave me a bit of pep in my step during the endless stream of submissions. Please give it a listen #WritingCommunity friends.

If you haven't encountered then yet, @unfortunatelypod.bsky.social is doing great things talking about the hard parts of author careers. It was a delight to get to chat with them about agent relationships & defining failure & other tricky things 🖤🎧✍️

I sound like a very sensible person & you should probably listen to me

AhHHh our scheduled bsky post didn't go out yesterday! Ep 13. Unfortunately... It's a Business Relationship is out now. We chat agent relationships, prioritizing yourself, and combatting comparanoia with author @rainewilson.bsky.social! #NewEpisode #WritingCommunity #WritingPodcast

I (Courtney) made a second preview of just this short snippet SPECIFICALLY because I need to hear it at least twice a week. Thanks so much for chatting with us @rainewilson.bsky.social!

Friday's episode with @rainewilson.bsky.social is such an amazing deep dive into agent relationships and being strategic about your career long term. Here's a preview! #WritingCommunity #WritingPodcast

Episode 12, Unfortunately... You Lose the Calluses is out now. @danaiwrites.bsky.social chatted with us about writing in a second language, unsupportive family, the power of community, and so much more. pnc.st/s/unfortunat... #WritingCommunity #WritingPodcast

Oops, we failed to post this preview for tomorrow's episode last week! @danaiwrites.bsky.social was a fantastic guest, & our conversation ranged from keeping chickens to writing in a second language, unsupportive family, and more! We hope you listen! #WritingPodcast #WritingCommunity

It's surprisingly joyous to talk about failure with writers as funny and thoughtful as Mona and Courtney. Check out their podcast!

New episode! We had a blast chatting with @darylwriterguy.bsky.social about everything from imposter syndrome to story logics... and why writing full time might not always be the dream. Listen at the link, or wherever you get your podcasts. #WritingCommunity #WritingPodcast

Here's a little preview of next week's episode with @darylwriterguy.bsky.social in which we chat community, imposter syndrome, awards, teaching, and tricking yourself into writing. #WritingCommunity #WritingPodcasts

Our latest episode, featuring the fantastic @cj-dotson.bsky.social, is out now! Listen here: pnc.st/s/unfortunat... #WritingPodcasts #WritingCommunity

Yep, this tracks with my own spreadsheets. (My debut's advance was $5000.) To reach the poverty line, I'd have to sell, generally, 20X more books than I do. I'm still surprised these days when someone says "I got a book deal!" and the response is "Congratulations!" instead of "Oh no" 😆

Here's a preview of next week's episode, in which we chat with debut horror author @cj-dotson.bsky.social! #WritingCommunity #WritingPodcast This one was such a blast!

New episode! Mona and Courtney chat with author @premeemohamed.com about moving the needle, data in the publishing industry, and how to keep creating when the world wants to uncreate you. #WritingCommunity #WritingPodcast #NewEpisode pnc.st/s/unfortunat...

Here's a preview of our next episode, in which we chat with the fantastic @premeemohamed.com about moving the needle, data in the publishing industry, and how to keep creating when the world wants to uncreate you. #WritingCommunity #WritingPodcast

In this week's episode, Courtney and Mona chat with fantasy author Demi Winters about writing from and about personal experiences, her journey from self-pub to trad pub, and letting go of the need to be in charge. #WritingCommunity #WritingPodcast #NewEpisode #BookSky buff.ly/iLmdKPI

Here's a preview of next week's episode, in which we chat with Demi Winters about self-publishing, traditional publishing, and a bunch of things in between - including the vulnerable feeling of putting work out there. #WritingCommunity #WritingPodcast

i had such a great conversation with Mona and Courtney! please give this episode a listen if you're a writer, hoping to get published, or a creative looking for a frank discussion about mental health. 🖤