Writer's Book Club Podcast

Writer’s Book Club is just like a regular book club but each month we’ll take a deep dive into a specific novel from a writing craft perspective. It's a podcast for people who read books with a writer’s eye and find themselves wishing they could ask the author specific writing questions about the novel. Essentially, it’s a no-holds-barred insight into an author’s writing craft and process, applied to a real-life novel. Shownotes are available at www.writersbookclubpodcast.com

Writer's Book Club Podcast is a arts podcast hosted by Michelle Barraclough, with 45 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.

Michelle Barraclough hosts Writer's Book Club Podcast, a arts show with 45 episodes published.

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  Episode #44

  Katherine Collette

  Dec 11, 20241h 3mS4

  <p >Katherine Collette is a writing coach and mentor who helps writers who want to get published, and writers who are about to be published, know what to do, what to expect and how to think, to give their work (and themselves) the best possible chance of success.</p><p >She is basically the person she wishes she’d had when she was first trying to get published!</p><p >In this episode, Katherine has given us a mini-coaching session so we can level up our writing for 2025. She shares great advice and so many fantastic tips:</p><p >The fo...

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  Episode #43

  Anita Heiss

  Dec 2, 20241h 12mS4

  <p>Anita Heiss talks about the writing craft and process behind her novel Dirrayawadha.  </p><p>Anita shares her insights about weaving research, backstory and Wiradyuri language into the narrative, emphasising the importance of authors trusting themselves and their stories. </p><p>We discuss Anita’s meticulous planning when it comes to her novels, which involves chapter breakdowns, character profiles, and using butcher's paper to keep organised. She talks about the importance of pre-manuscript consultations, sensitivity reads, and the editorial process with her First Nations editor, Grace Lucas-Pennington. </p><p>Anita highlights the necessity for writers to remove themselves from their...

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  Episode #42

  Jock Serong

  Nov 2, 20241h 6mS4

  <p>Jock Serong talks about the writing craft and process behind his novel Cherrywood.</p><p>Jock tells us how this novel started with several image fragments and a variety of influences, from Peter Carey’s Oscar & Lucinda and Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi, to Enid Blyton’s The Faraway Tree, and the Narnia Chronicles, with a little Dickens and Austen thrown in.</p><p>Jock’s explanation of how a handful of ideas became a story is one of the best I've heard. He also tells us his thoughts on writing place as character, how to describe minor characters so they sta...

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  Episode #41

  Donna M. Cameron

  Oct 6, 202452 minS4

  <p>Donna M Cameron talks about the writing craft and process behind her novel The Rewilding. </p><p>Donna and I discussed what inspired the novel, the importance of trusting your gut, how choosing the right point of view and tense can bring the writing alive, how she raised the stakes and why she dislikes dialogue tags. We also talked about her beta readers and the editing process for The Rewilding, and Donna does three fabulous readings from the novel to illustrate how she differentiates the voices for her characters.</p><p>ABOUT DONNA M. CAMERON</p><p>Donna M C...

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  Episode #40

  Terri Green

  Sep 2, 20241h 25mS4

  <p>Terri Green talks about the writing craft and process behind her novel An Unsuitable Pursuit. </p><p>Terri and I discussed writing and self-publishing an historical fiction series. Terri gave lots of wonderful advice about how and where to research, how to balance action, interiority, dialogue and description, how to use chapter headings for structure and how to balance humour with serious subject matter.</p><p>Terri also has some absolute gold to share in this episode about how and when to make the decision to self-publish, along with some of the important things you need to think about b...

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