- 327
- Episodes
- 12
- Transcribed
- 55
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2019
- First episode
About Debutiful
Discover debut authors with Debutiful. In each episode, host Adam Vitcavage has an in-depth chat with a writer about why they write, how they write, and the path to publishing their debut book.
- Publisher
- Debutiful
- Category
- arts
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 23 Dec 2019
- Latest episode
- 30 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
12 of 327 episodes have a transcript.
30 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman by Deesha Philaw - Defining Your Own Success
17 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Observer by Nicholas Russell - Letting Ignorance Be Bliss
17 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Responsible Party by Claire Carusillo - Writing a Fictional Character Named Claire Carusillo
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The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman by Deesha Philaw - Defining Your Own Success
Published 30 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And and so, you know, in satirizing the black church and in particular, as in, you know, embodied by the first lady of the church. There's all of this pageantry and the performance of it all. And to make that satirical is to just put all of that on steroids. And so that's when I came up with the pageant idea for middle-aged pastor's wives. And so then it felt like a playground. Like, you know, what are the pageant categories going to be? And how is she going to present this? And then, of course, one of the struggles I'd had with the novel all those years was that there were no stakes. So the pageant gave her some stakes, but there were no larger stakes, right? […]
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See plansWho has been a guest on Debutiful
Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.
- Deesha Philyaw
- Nicholas Russell
- Claire Carusillo
- P Paramita
- Hannah Murray
Reach and audience
Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 29 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 26 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 54 / 100
A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.
- Quality
- 73
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 90
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Questions about Debutiful
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes daily, based on its RSS feed.
Does Debutiful take guests?
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