The Fresh Fiction Podcast

Fresh Fiction sits down with writers, creatives, and friends to talk pop-culture, creating stories, and what guests are watching, reading, and listening to.

The Fresh Fiction Podcast is a arts podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 213 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts The Fresh Fiction Podcast, a arts show with 213 episodes published.

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  Episode #168

  NYT Bestseller Michelle M. Pillow on Why Romantasy Was Her Genre Before It Had a Name

  Aug 18, 202647 min

  NYT and USA Today bestselling author Michelle M. Pillow joins Samantha Tennant to talk about the re-release of The King of the Unblessed (Book 1 of the Realm Immortal series) through Tor Bramble — a lush, epic dark romantasy that Michelle wrote long before "romantasy" was even a coined term. They dig into the Labyrinth-inspired origins of the Goblin King story, Michelle's massive world-building across 100+ books and eight series, and what it's like to revisit older stories with fresh eyes. Plus: the Fresh Fiction Facts Q&A gets into zombie aspirations, campy horror DVDs, Darcy's botched proposal, and why Sarah absolutely should have stayed in the Labyrinth.

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  Episode #167

  Cathy Maxwell on Trusting Readers, Losing the Gatekeepers, and Writing Her Own Rules

  Aug 11, 202646 min

  Bestselling historical romance author Cathy Maxwell joins Fresh Fiction to talk about her first indie release, Curves for the Rakish Duke, and her first-ever author collaboration with the Busty Bodice Club series. Cathy opens up about the surprising generosity of indie readers, the creative freedom of publishing without gatekeepers, and why she is finally revisiting an old favorite novella with fresh eyes.

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  Episode #166

  She Wrote Her First Novel in a School Pickup Line | Christine Gunderson

  Aug 4, 202635 min

  Before Christine Gunderson became an Amazon bestselling author, she was a TV reporter, a Capitol Hill press secretary, and a stay-at-home mom who wrote her first novel in stolen minutes at school pickup. In this Fresh Fiction Video Book Club conversation with host Samantha Tennant, Christine talks about the long, twisty road to publication, the real women who inspired the 1965 storyline in her new novel Behind White Picket Fences, and why she believes the pressure on mothers to do it all is as unrealistic now as it was sixty years ago. Plus, a rapid-fire round covering her go-to gas station snack, her Jane Austen obsession, and the cult she would absolutely start.

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  Episode #165

  Meeting Authors In Person — Our Weekend at Kiss and Tell

  Jul 28, 20265 min

  This episode centers on the Fresh Fiction team's weekend at Kiss and Tell, a local romance author book signing event in Grapevine, Texas. The team attended alongside book club members, meeting favorite authors, discovering new-to-them authors, and connecting with fellow readers.

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  Episode #164

  How Real Government Psychic Research Inspired Jayne Castle's Harmony World

  Jul 21, 202638 min

  Bestselling author Jayne Castle joins Fresh Fiction's Podcast to talk about ENTER THE NIGHTMARE, book nineteen in her Harmony series. She traces the real government psychic research that inspired her world building, introduces Sebastian, the reader-made dust bunny that inspired her mascot, and shares stories from a Cotswolds hiking trip with fellow authors Susan Elizabeth Phillips and Christina Dodd. Jayne also talks about writing under three names, why she never reuses the same hero and heroine, and what is coming next in her Psychic Dog series.

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