Jake Kyer returns to discuss querying with Maddy and Abigail. They give updates on their querying journey, discuss concerns about AI, and talk about navigating genre labels.

Maddy and Abigail chat about making connections. They discuss their experience forming connections and how their connections have helped them in their lives.

Maddy and Abigail chat about developing characters. They chat about some of their favorite tools to help them with characters and how the make characters in their own work.

Maddy and Abigail chat about finding joy in writing and in life during these unprecedented times. They chat about radical hope, the hard work you have to put in to find joy, and the ways they are avoiding joy.

Maddy and Abigail chat about common pieces of writing advice that they had to unlearn over the years. They chat about the five paragraph essay, "said is dead", and what it means to finish a project.

Maddy and Abigail reflect on the past two years, chatting about what the new year has in store and their favorite lessons from their podcast guests in 2025.

Maddy and Abigail sit down with Jandy Nelson author of The Sky is Everywhere, I'll Give You the Sun, and When the World Tips Over. Jandy shares her journey as a writer from poet to having one of her books adapted into a movie.

Maddy and Abigail sit down with Jane Rodriguez owner of the romance-only bookstore New Romantics located in Orlando, Florida. Jane shares her journey of becoming a bookstore owner.