- 193
- Episodes
- 15
- Transcribed
- 34
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2022
- First episode
- 74K
- YouTube views
About Write the Damn Book Already
Want to write, publish, and market your book, but feel overwhelmed by where to start? Write the Damn Book Already breaks down the writing process, self-publishing, and traditional publishing so you can move from idea to finished book with clarity and confidence. Hosted by Elizabeth Lyons—author, book writing coach, book editor, and self-publishing expert—this show untangles the often-confusing world of writing and publishing. From first draft to finished manuscript, indie publishing to traditional publishing, Amazon strategy to long-term book visibility, you’ll get practical guidance and honest conversations about what it really takes to get a book into the world. Through solo episodes and interviews with both traditionally published and indie authors—across fiction and nonfiction—Elizabeth brings a well-rounded, no-hype perspective to the publishing industry. Whether you’re working on memoir, nonfiction, or a novel, you’ll walk away with clearer next steps and fewer mental roadblocks.
- Publisher
- Elizabeth Lyons
- Category
- arts · business · business
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 25 Mar 2022
- Latest episode
- 28 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
15 of 193 episodes have a transcript.
28 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Ep 191: Novel Writing When You’re Also an Editor (with E.L. Shen)
21 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Ep 190: Novel Writing for People Who Hate Self-Promo (with Anna Dorn)
14 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Ep 189: 120 Rejections and Two Agents Later | Jane Bitomsky on Her Debut, Death by Misadventure
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Ep 191: Novel Writing When You’re Also an Editor (with E.L. Shen)
Published 28 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So I had to do a lot of research. This all started from interviewing my grandmother, who was 93, and I interviewed her over the course of many years, and I just always found her life history very fascinating, particularly her immigration from Taiwan to America, although she moved to Mississippi for college. So it's like a very different thing. in the 50s and so she would talk a lot about racism and also just like understanding the concept of racism and then you know people being racist towards her like there's so many layers to this yeah that she just had to learn um and then finding her you know people within this like rural mississippi school in the 50s as like a chinese american person like right after the chinese exclusion act ended in america i just think there's so many interesting things about her life. […]
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- Elizabeth Shen
- Anna Dorn
- Jane Bitomsky
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- YouTube views
- 73,910
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 28 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 6 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 66 / 100
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- Quality
- 70
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 76
- Engagement
- 77
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