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The Writing Table with Kris Clink
The Writing Table is a podcast for writers and book lovers. Whether you're a seasoned writer or curious about the writing life, pull up a chair. Hear from authors from every stage-from New York Times list-makers to debuts. You'll get a behind-the-scenes view of your favorite books-from writing the ugly first drafts to the final editorial processes.
Check out interviews with Phillipa Gregory, Jennifer Weiner, Lemony Snicket, Laurie Frankel, and so many others. Come on in-there's always room at the writing table.
Hosted by Kris Clink, author of Goodbye, Lark Lovejoy and Sissie Klein is Completely Normal. Kris’s novels are set in middle America where front porches offer the best views, books are treasured, and there’s always room to pull up an extra chair at dinner. A native Texan, she’s now at home in Kansas with her husband, two spoiled pups, and the gorgeous cardinals who visit her back deck.
Episodes
342 episodes
Debut Novelist Kate Clark Stone: Last Sunday in May
Kate Clark Stone’s fiction features strong and vulnerable heroines, a lot of heart, and endless love for flyover states. Kate attended her first Indianapolis 500 at six years old and wrote her first book at eleven. A former attorney, Kate re...
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Jennifer Chiaverini on her Elm Creek Series, Historical Fiction, and Quilting
Jennifer Chiaverini is the New York Times bestselling author of thirty-six novels, including critically acclaimed historical fiction and the beloved Elm Creek Quilts series. In addition to her novels, Jennifer has cr...
Sally Kilpatrick on Wuthering Heights, the Romance Genre, and her latest, Little Miss Petty
Sally Kilpatrick discusses how growing up in a rural area and being raised by a librarian informed her decision to become a novelist. She illustrates how the novel, Wuthering Heights, and the 2026 film vary in the way each manages consent betwe...
Wildlife Researcher Alice Henderson on Writing Thrillers
Alice Henderson discusses the challenges of writing thrillers set in nature, her adventures in plotting, and how listeners can contribute their own regional climactic observations to ecological research. Plus, she offers a preview into the late...
Shea Serrano, In time for March Madness: Expensive Basketball
Shea Serrano is an American author, journalist, humorist, and former teacher. He is best known for his work with the sports and pop culture websites, The Ringer and
Jessi Cole Jackson's Romantasy Debut: Ruinous Creatures
Jessi Cole Jackson grew up in rural Michigan surrounded by lakes, cornfields, and hard-working pragmatists who would never call themselves artists, despite woodworking, sewing, baking, flower arranging, building, drawing, and crafting. Thus, it...
Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney: Bringing the Seventies to Life in Lake Effect
What does an author do when her debut novel becomes an instant bestseller? Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney went right back to work on her next one, and her next-also instant hits. In this episode, Cynthia discusses growing up in the seventies, he...
Nick Petrie Talks Thrillers, Tree Climbers, Cocaine Bear-Plus a Sneak Peek at The Dark Time
Inspiration doesn't always find authors at their desk, and it doesn't give a darn about deadlines. Where does a creative go when the muse is silent? Nick Petrie's back at the Writing Table. He shares his secrets to writing adventure...
Lisa Unger on Writing Thrillers and Channeling Inspiration *Plus a preview of her latest novel, Served Him Right*
Regarded as a master of suspense, Lisa Unger stops by the Writing Table to talk to Kris about her writing career and how she channels inspiration into suspense-packed novels. Lisa Unger is the New York Times and internation...
Linda Rhodes: Breaking the Barnyard Barrier
Linda Rhodes began her career as a dairy cow veterinarian after she graduated from the University of Pennsylvania summa cum laude in 1978. After several years in dairy practice, she was granted a fellowship at Cornell University, where...
Kate White on Her Time at Cosmopolitan, Writing Thrillers in Uruguay, & Her Latest Novel, I Came Back for You
Kate White is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of eleven psychological thrillers. In addition to writing stand-alone psychological thrillers, Kate is the author of eight Bailey Weggins mysteries. The most recent, SUCH A PERFE...
Joshilyn Jackson on Sisters, Nailing Your Authorial Voice, and Men in Kilts
New York Times and USA Today bestselling novelist Joshilyn Jackson’s books have been translated into a dozen languages, won SIBA’s Novel of the Year award, three times been the #1 Book Sense Pick, twice been the #1 Indie Next ...
Hays Blinckman and Tiny Little Earthquakes
Hays Trott Blinckmann is a writer, journalist, teacher, and recovering painter. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Tufts University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She has written the novels: I...
Sofia Robleda: Embracing the Past
Sofia Robleda is a Mexican writer who spent her childhood and adolescence in Mexico, Saudi Arabia and Singapore. She completed her undergraduate and doctorate degrees in psychology at the University of Queensland, in Australia. She currently li...
Wendy Walker's New Thriller: Blade
How does an ice skater move forward when her Olympic hopes are dashed? This isn't the logline for a novel, but Wendy Walker's true story. Wendy Walker is the author of the psychological suspense novels All Is Not Forgotten, Emma In ...
Kaira Rouda: We Were Never Friends
Kaira Rouda is an award–winning, USA Today and Amazon Charts bestselling author of contemporary fiction that explores what goes on beneath the surface of seemingly perfect lives. Her novels of domestic suspense include The Widow, Somebody’s Hom...
Kristine Delano: The Lies We Trade
Kristine Delano spent over twenty years navigating a career on Wall Street before trading her panoramic city view for her standing writer's desk where she crafts thriller novels set in the high-stakes finance world, exploring the emotional tens...
Amy Meyerson: The Water Lies
Amy Meyerson is the acclaimed author of the internationally bestselling The Bookshop of Yesterdays, The Imperfects, and The Love Scribe. Her books have been translated into eleven languages and are frequently chosen for best-o...
Book Publicist & Debut Novelist Jessica Cozzi
Jessica L. Cozzi crafts swoon-worthy romances for teens to show that there is always love in the world, if you’re willing to find it. She is a publicist at William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins, and is also a former YA book blogger. She h...
Jacqueline Mitchard & The Bird Watcher
Jacqueline Mitchard is the New York Times bestselling author of 23 novels for adults and teenagers, and the recipient of Great Britain’s Talkabout prize, The Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson awards, and named to the short list for the W...
Brooke Warner on Hybrid Publishing and the Memoir Genre
Brooke Warner is publisher of She Writes Press, an imprint of The Stable Book Group. She is a memoir coach and author of Write On, Sisters!, Green-light Your Book, What's Your Book?, and three books on memoir. She’s also a TED...
Christina Kovac: Watch Us Fall
Christina Kovac sits down with Kris to talk about living and writing in and around her Georgetown, DC home. Christina writes psychological suspense/thrillers set in Washington, DC. Prior to writing fiction, Christina worked in telev...
Historian Gareth Russell on King James' Many Loves
Gareth Russell is a historian and broadcaster, educated at Oxford University and Queen’s University, Belfast. He is the author of nine books. He is host of the podcast Single Malt History with Gareth Russell. Russell divid...
Yasmin Angoe: Nina Knight is Back
Yasmin Angoe is an action and psychological suspense thriller author, Library of Virginia People’s Choice Fiction Award finalist, and Anthony-award nominee of the critically acclaimed international Her Name is Knight and domestic psychological ...
Elle Marr: Writing Thrillers While Raising Small Children
Elle Marr is the author of thrillers THE MISSING SISTER (2020), LIES WE BURY (2021), STRANGERS WE KNOW (2022), THE FAMILY BONES (2023), THE ALONE TIME (2024), and YOUR DARK SECRETS (July 30). She is (evidently) a fan of coffee. Her work has bee...