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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
265 episodes
Marie Bostwick on Writing The Bookclub for Troublesome Women
From book clubs to navigating characters who are hard to pin down, Marie Bostwick shares her best practices about drafting a novel and discusses what inspired her latest novel, The Bookclub for Troublesome Women. Marie is a New York...
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Season 5
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Episode 42
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29:18
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Catriona Silvey: Love and Other Paradoxes
Catriona Silvey discusses her journey to publishing and what she's learned along the way. Catriona is the author of the international bestseller Meet Me in Another Life. She was born in Glasgow and grew up in Scotland and Englan...
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Season 5
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Episode 42
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19:34
Emily Carpenter & Gothictown
Emily Carpenter peels back the curtain on querying and how she arrived at her distinct style of southern gothic suspense. A former actor, producer, screenwriter, and behind-the-scenes soap opera assistant, Emily graduated with a Bachelor of Art...
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Season 5
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Episode 41
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33:37
Kat Mackenzie's Work in Progress
Kat Mackenzie is an American who just happened to find herself living abroad for ten years and accidentally traveling to over forty countries in an attempt to taste all the food. She holds degrees from the University of Edinburgh and the...
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Season 5
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Episode 40
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21:56
Melissa Ferguson on The Perfect Rom-Com
Raising sheep, chickens, and more while home schooling a house full of children, Melissa Ferguson shares what's in store for readers with her next novel, The Perfect Rom-Com. Melissa is the bestselling author of titles including Meet Me in ...
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Season 5
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Episode 39
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22:56
Poppy Kuroki: Gate to Kagoshima
Poppy Kuroki was born in Scotland and grew up in England. She’s been living in Japan in the Kanagawa prefecture since 2016 where she works as a writer and freelance editor, and lives with her son. She conducted extensive historical resea...
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Season 5
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Episode 38
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20:44
Bob Johnson-The Continental Divide
Years after completing an MFA at Iowa and retiring from a storied careers in television and academics, Bob Johnson returned to writing to become an award-winning short story writer and graduate of the lowa Writers’ Workshop. His work has been p...
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Season 5
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Episode 37
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24:33
Jenn Bouchard: Lessons Learned in the Writing Trenches
Jenn Bouchard reveals her takeaways on developing characters, how she rebounded after disappointment, and what's behind her latest novel, Considering Us. Jenn has been teaching high school social studies for twenty-five years. She i...
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Season 5
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Episode 36
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22:39
Jennifer Weiner & The Griffin Sisters' Greatest Hits
What did Jennifer Weiner learn from Toni Morrison? Where did her research for her latest novel take her? Find out in this week's episode of the Writing Table. Jennifer Weiner is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of nineteen b...
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Season 5
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Episode 35
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26:18
Cynthia Pelayo: Vanishing Daughters
Cynthia Cina Pelayo is a Bram Stoker Award winning and International Latino Book Award winning author and poet. Heavily influenced by dark fairytales, folklore, urban legends and true crime and a master of blending gothic, horror, and suspense,...
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Season 5
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Episode 34
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20:57
Kimberly Brock: Chasing Ghosts
Kimberly Brock is the bestselling author of The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare, which was shortlisted for the prestigious Townsend Prize for Fictio...
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Season 5
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Episode 33
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27:51
Jacqueline Faber: The Department
Jacqueline Faber is an author and freelance writer. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Emory University, where she was the recipient of a Woodruff Scholarship, and taught in the Expository Writing Program at New York University, whe...
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Season 5
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Episode 34
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23:30
Lindsay Jill Roth: Romances and Practicalities
Dating is hard, but Lindsay Jill Roth has conducted years of research, revealing key topics to consider when looking for Mr. or Mrs. Right. Roth is an award-winning television and live-events producer who has created and developed a wide variet...
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Season 5
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Episode 32
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20:43
Amber Chen: Of Jade and Dragons
Amber Chen is a Singaporean-Chinese author of SFF and contemporary fiction. She spends much of her free time living within Chinese fantasy novels and dramas, and also drinks one too many cups of bubble tea. One of her webnovels, T...
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Season 5
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Episode 31
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23:01
Shanora Williams: Beautiful Broken Love
Shanora Williams is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of over thirty romance and diverse suspense novels. She lives near Charlotte, North Carolina with her husband and three boys and is a sister to eleven. When she isn’t writing...
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Season 5
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Episode 30
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19:32
Barbara Nickless: The Drowning Game
#1 Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Barbara Nickless promised her mother she’d be a novelist when she grew up. What could be safer than sitting at a desk all day? But a sense of adventure led her astray for a few decades...
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Season 5
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Episode 30
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17:04
Zeeva Bukai: The Anatomy of Exile
Zeeva Bukai was born in Israel and raised in New York City. Her stories have appeared in OfTheBook Press, Mcsweeney’s Quarterly Concern, December Magazine, The Jewish Quarterly and elsewhere. She completed a fellowship at the New York Center fo...
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Season 5
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Episode 29
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25:07
Rosa Kwon Easton: White Mulberry
Rosa Kwon Easton was born in Seoul, Korea, and grew up with her extended family in Los Angeles. Easton holds a bachelor’s degree in government from Smith College, a master’s in international and public affairs from Columbia University, and a...
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Season 5
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Episode 28
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19:02
Amelia Diane Coombs: Drop Dead Sisters
Amelia Diane Coombs is the author of four young adult novels, most recently All Alone With You, a JLG Gold Standard Selection. She’s a Northern California transplant living in Seattle, Washington, with her spouse and their Siberian cat...
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Season 5
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Episode 27
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28:34
GT Karber, Creator of the Murdle Mystery Game Books
Murdle game books, available at your local indie bookstore and everywhere else, are created by G.T. Karber. G. T. grew up in a small town in Arkansas, the son of a judge and a civil rights attorney. He graduated summa cum laude from th...
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Season 5
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Episode 26
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22:36
Darby Kane: What the Wife Knew
Darby Kane is a former divorce lawyer with a dual writing personality. Her debut thriller, Pretty Little Wife, was a Book of the Month pick, #1 international bestseller, and has been optioned by Amazon for a television series, starring Gabriell...
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Season 5
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Episode 25
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28:24
Rosie Schaap: The Slow Road North
Rosie Schaap is the author of Drinking with Men: A Memoir and Becoming a Sommelier. She was a columnist for The New York Times Magazine, and has also contributed to the paper’s book review, dining, opinion, sports, and travel sections; This Ame...
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Season 5
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Episode 25
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19:33
Pip Drysdale: The Close-Up
Pip Drysdale is an Australian author, musician and actor. She grew up in Africa, Canada, and Australia, became an adult in New York and London, and lives on a steady diet of coffee, dreams, and literature. All four of her books – The Sunday...
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Season 5
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Episode 24
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24:25
Matthew Fitzsimmons & The Slate
Matthew FitzSimmons is the author of the Wall Street Journal bestselling Gibson Vaughn series, whiFitz includes Origami Man, Debris Line, Cold Harbor, Poisonfeather, and The Short Drop, and the Constance series. Born in Illinois and raised in L...
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Season 5
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Episode 23
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21:56
Literary Agent Jessica Faust, President of BookEnds
As owner and President at BookEnds, Jessica Faust is honored to spend every day with some of the most talented authors and agents in the business. From BookEnds’ inception in 1999, Jessica works tirelessly to advocate for those she works with f...
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Season 5
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Episode 22
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29:50