This week Kate and Marty discuss pacing, and knowing readers’ expectations in your genre and trope. Congratulations to Cat Giraldo! Click here to download <a href='https://www.amazon.com/Beg-Not-Cat-Giraldo-ebook/dp/B09PF66771'>To Beg or Not to Beg</a>. We also mention our friends<a href='https://www.lizalden.com/'> Liz Alden (writer of romance and travel,)</a> <a href='https://www.abwilsonwrites.com/'>A.B. Wilson (keeper of the most interesting prewriting processes,)</a> and <a href='https://roxienoir.com/'>Roxie Noir (knower of how to indulge in story.)</a> <a href='https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09HZDR5B6'>Get Love, Laugh, Lich</a>, Kate Prior&apos;s debut novella. Sign up for Marty&apos;s <a href='https://martyvee.com/'>newsletter</a> at her website to get You and Me in Quarantine for free! You can find Kate on Twitter <a href='https://twitter.com/byKatePrior'>@bykateprior</a> and Instagram<a href='https://www.instagram.com/bykateprior/'> @bykateprior</a> and Marty on TikTok <a href='https://www.tiktok.com/@martyveeauthur?lang=en'>@martyveeauthor</a> and Instagram <a href='https://www.instagram.com/martyveeauthor/'>@martyveeauthor</a> and Twitter <a href='https://twitter.com/MartyVeeAuthor'>@martyveeauthor</a>. Please subscribe and rate our podcast, it helps us reach new listeners.

26: Carly Spade and Contemporary Romantic Fantasy

Two writer friends, Marty Vee and Kate Prior, catch up every couple of weeks, checking in on our personal lives, our writing goals, and where we are in our current novels. Marty and Kate can tangent with the best of them, often braiding several ideas together at once, so if you're lost listening, don't worry, we are too. It's a sneak-peak into the scattered processes and methods that go into storytelling and running a small business, two authors' foray into the world of self-publishing: covering book covers, marketing, newsletters, and just writing the damn book.&nbsp;Oversharing? Never heard of her.