Living In the Pages
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Bonus Episode 15 - Kayley Loring
17 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“I can't create a vaccine, but I can, hopefully, make people laugh.“— Kayley Loring
Bonus Episode 14 - Shay Apple
10 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“When I started writing my Brookston Housewives series, I thought I was writing a romance with lots of sex...I just felt like something was missing,...
Bonus Episode 13 - Cece Ferrell
03 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“It helps a lot to have those writer friends—that community, that tribe—to be there and say “Hey, come on, let’s do this together, let’s h...
Bonus Episode 12 - Tillie Cole
19 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“I don't have that story of, "I've written since I was six," like I hear a lot of authors saying.“— Tillie Cole
Bonus Episode 11 - Leslie Fear
12 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“With paranormal, it's whatever you want it to be. It doesn't necessarily have to coincide with everyone else's vision of paranormal.“— Leslie F...
Bonus Episode 10 - Emery Rose
05 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“I just have a lot of brackets [laughs] that say, ‘Write something really great here.’“— Emery Rose
Bonus Episode 9 - Giana Darling
29 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“I love antiheroes. I love writing about situations that, maybe aren’t comfortable in society…because that’s where I think all the fun is.“—...
Bonus Episode 8 - Alessandra Torre(2)
22 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“There's no ego or personality conflicts that exist with Marlowe. She doesn't blush, she doesn't judge, she likes all genres...“— Alessandra Tor...
Bonus Episode 7 - Erin Spencer
15 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“Being in that double position of authoring and narrating—and sort of seeing that & feeling that—was really cool, and took my respect for au...
Bonus Episode 6 - Dylan Allen
08 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“Even when I'm exhausted, I can do it because I love storytelling, I love my characters—and now, I've fallen in love with my readers!“— Dylan ...
Bonus Episode 5 - Kimberly McCreight
01 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“I try to just focus on the thing I'm doing, and the work in front of me, because it's hard to count on much else.“— Kimberly McCreight
Bonus Episode 4 - Q.B. Tyler
24 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“Even if you want to write something, if something else is louder, you have to go with what's screaming.“— Q.B. Tyler
Bonus Episode 3 - Saffron A. Kent
17 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“That is the reason that I wake up every morning. I'm like, 'Ok, I'm going to work on this story, and I'm going to make it the best that I can, no m...
Bonus Episode 2 - Shanora Williams
10 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“I’ve always been a very twisty writer. Even most of my romance novels have some kind of twist that blows up in your face.“— Shanora Williams
Bonus Episode 1 - Carmel Rhodes
03 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“As I develop the story around the characters, bits and pieces of their personalities come through…they always, always, always surprise me.“— ...
Season 3 Episode 25 - Tarryn Fisher
25 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"I think we just try to talk ourselves out of doing the hard things we need to do with our art. And when you stop listening to that voice, and start w...
Season 3 Episode 24 - Kelly Elliot
18 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"I think the biggest thing you need to do is write for yourself. Write what you want to write—not what other people want you to write, or what’s e...
Season 3 Episode 23 - Korrie Kelley
11 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"There’s just something about a forbidden touch or kiss…I just feel like I was born in the wrong time sometimes.”— Korrie Kelley
Season 3 Episode 22 - P. Dangelico
04 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"I'm really inspired by people and what motivates them...so my plots usually evolve from the motivations of my characters.”— P. Dangelico
Season 3 Episode 21 - Charity Ferrell
28 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"I love writing—I always have.”— Charity Ferrell
Season 3 Episode 20 - Monica James
21 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"I'm just one of those writers where I like to draw inspiration from my environment.”— Monica James
Season 3 Episode 19 - Dr. Rebecca Sharp
14 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"I just like the struggle.”— Dr. Rebecca Sharp
Season 3 Episode 18 - Jiffy Kate
07 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"I love that fact that something that we create might make somebody else happy!”— Jenny Kate Altman
Season 3 Episode 17 - Emma Renshaw
30 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"I have always been a writer. As for back as I can remember, I was writing on construction paper with crayons.”Emma Renshaw
Season 3 Episode 16 - Nana Malone
23 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"You know, it's like breaking that idea that melanin dictates what you're going to enjoy.”Nana Malone
Season 3 Episode 15 - Nikki Sloane
16 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"My mind has to be distracted for me to get over whatever is blocking me.”Nikki Sloane
Season 3 Episode 14 - Martha Waters
09 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"I am a lifelong Anglophile. I grew up reading Austin and discovered Georgette Heyer in college, which I didn't realize were romance novels at the tim...
Season 3 Episode 13 - Willow Winters
02 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"I just needed a piece of me, and a challenge—and it took off so quickly.”Willow Winters
Season 3 Episode 12 - Laura Pavlov
26 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"I feel really lucky that I get to (write) full-time now, and I’m so thankful, because I love it. I wake up excited every day.”Laura Pavlov
Season 3 Episode 11 - Kelsey Clayton
19 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"When you write, you get attached to these characters, and you end up really wanting to dive further into them.”Kelsey Clayton
Season 3 Episode 10- Alison G. Bailey
12 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"I think [writing humor] is harder, because not everybody thinks the same thing is funny.”Alison G. Bailey
Season 3 Episode 9 - Charleigh Rose
05 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"I would have never guessed that picking up a book—an indie book—would change, and lead to all of this.”Charleigh Rose
Season 3 Episode 8- CoraLee June
27 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"There's, like, a buzz when you release a book, and it's anxiousness, and nervousness, but excitement...I love releasing a new book.”CoraLee June
Season 3 Episode 7 - Emma Scott
20 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Bits of my experiences now have been planted in my works before...Maybe it's not so strange. Maybe all of that is already in us, and our job as write...
Season 3 Episode 6 - L.B. Simmons
13 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"There's always a romantic element, but that's not the point of the story—it never is. It's always about the growth of the characters.”L.B. Simmon...
Season 3 Episode 5 - Catherine Cowles
06 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"I’m a big rewriter. My books change a lot from draft one to draft two.”Catherine Cowles
Season 3 Episode 4 - Susan Fanetti
30 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"I guess readers read to escape, and I write to escape.”— Susan Fanetti
Season 3 Episode 3 - Natasha Madison
23 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"My goal was, when I published my first book, that I wanted forty-seven people to read it—47 people that I didn’t know—because I thought fifty w...
Season 3 Episode 2 - Suanne Laqueur
16 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"One of the problems I have with my books is figuring out which shelf to put them on.”Suanne Laqueur
Season 3 Episode 1 - Megan Angelo
09 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"It was a little bit of an uneven process in, kind of, building these three women in different ways. But I found it a great challenge—not one that I...
Season 2 Episode 42 - Megan Angelo
09 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"It was a little bit of an uneven process in, kind of, building these three women in different ways. But I found it a great challenge—not one that I...
Season 2 Episode 41 - She Said, He Said (Too)
12 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"I've been trying to desensitize myself, but it doesn't work...it just got really hot in here.”Matt Russikoff — She Said, He Said
Season 2 Episode 40 - Elizabeth O'Roark
05 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"I hear of these people who are on such schedules, and I always say “Oh, I’ve got to become one of those people.” But I’m really not.”— El...
Season 2 Episode 39 - Paullina Simons
21 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"I thought it would be interesting to see the world that I knew through the eyes of these two young people.”— Paullina Simons
Season 2 Episode 38 - Rebecca Jenshak
14 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"I love secondary characters and I love having this full world for each book.”— Rebecca Jenshak
Season 2 Episode 37 - Lisa Renee Jones
07 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"I realized that hearing from the readers that your stories have really touched them, really is why you do this.”— Lisa Renee Jones
Season 2 Episode 36 Part 2 - Willow Aster
04 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"They're not the typical warm and fuzzy [characters]—they're broken, and raw, and honest—so, that's the kind of people I'm drawn to.”— Willow ...
Season 2 Episode 36 Part 1 - Willow Aster
31 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"That's the thing with my books; I feel like they're all so different from one another that, if you're not in the right frame of mind, it doesn't nece...
Season 2 Episode 35 - Jeana E. Mann
24 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"At the end of the day, I've still got to get up and take the trash out and mow the yard and walk the dogs and, you know, life goes on.”— Jeana E....
Season 2 Episode 34 - Piper Rayne
17 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"Writing can be isolating as a whole, and it’s nice to have a teammate…you know, someone who’s just as invested as you…in the stories and the ...
Season 2 Episode 33 - Kathryn Andrews
10 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"I find I do muse more on location than I do on people. If I go to the beach I'm inspired, if I'm in the mountains I'm inspired, If I walk through Wil...
Season 2 Episode 32 - Natasha Boyd
03 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"I feel like most of us read to live a different life temporarily or just experience a different life—whether it's for escapism or just wanting to u...
Season 2 Episode 31 - Anne Mercier
26 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"I was actually writing a young adult series, and all of a sudden this rock star series just popped into my head...and it just wouldn't let me write t...
Season 2 Episode 30 - Leylah Attar
19 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"When you find the things that resonate with you and you collect them, you create a world that you can love.”— Leylah Attar
Season 2 Episode 29 - Tia Louise
12 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"It's not really like we're in competition with each other, because there is no way I could ever keep up with the demand for romance. Romance readers ...
Season 2 Episode 28 -Lexi Blake
05 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"You almost can’t say you’re a writer until somebody says you’re the worst writer in the world.”— Lexi Blake
Season 2 Episode 27 - Lauren Layne
27 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"My husband swears by taking a walk, so he’ll always walk the dog. I want to be that person that’s just like, “I’m going to go take a walk.”...
Season 2 Episode 26 - Geneva Lee
20 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"I was sobbing during one of the scenes I wrote in the last book because, honestly, they were supposed to have a fight and then it just got to a level...
Season 2 Episode 25 - Rachel Higginson
13 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"Writing is mentally consuming. It's hard for me to think about the real world when I'm in the middle of a fantasy one.”— Rachel Higginson
Season 2 Episode 24 - Laurelin Paige
06 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"Most of my heroines are kind of broken people...strong, flawed women.”— Laurelin Paige
Season 2 Episode 23 - Pepper Winters
30 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"I think you've got to have that thread of insanity in you to enjoy the fruits of the imagination. I really do think bookworms are in a league of thei...
Season 2 Episode 22 - Melanie Harlow
23 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"When I’m stuck, I have to just get away from the computer. Staring at the screen does nothing for me…”— Melanie Harlow
Season 2 Episode 21 - Meghan Quinn
16 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"I've always just been that person who has these wild thoughts. So I like that instead of torturing my friends, I can just put them into stories.”—...
Season 2 Episode 20 - Chelle Bliss
09 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"I never know from day to day what I'm going to write or what's going to happen...I don't even know what's going to be in the next paragraph until I w...
Season 2 Episode 19 - Kandi Steiner
02 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"That to me is what writing is about—trying to capture those feelings that we all feel, and bring them into words that maybe others couldn't before....
Season 2 Episode 18 - Alyson Santos
25 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"We’re all human, and we all share a common human experience that we can all relate to on a certain level...We need to start meeting each other at t...
Season 2 Episode 17 - Anna Todd
18 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"I feel like I don't have a choice of what my characters do in my books—ever.”— Anna Todd
Season 2 Episode 16 - Monica Murphy
11 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"I always like to say, 'If the reader is surprised by something, it’s because I was surprised by it too.'”— Monica Murphy
Season 2 Episode 15 - Brittainy Cherry
08 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"You have to close off the outside noise if you want to grow, and you have to find your own arena to fight in. Nothing works the same for everyone…T...
Season 2 Episode 14 - Tracey Garvis-Graves
04 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"It’s about longevity for me—this is what I want to keep doing.There are so many things you can’t control about being an author, so you just hav...
Season 2 Episode 13 - Marni Mann
28 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"It’s just the way I’ve always communicated. Even now, when I need to tell something really important to my husband, I’ll send him an email, or ...
Season 2 Episode 12 - Adriana Locke
21 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"I can overthink anything—like, how to make mashed potatoes. I can overthink that until my kids are starving at midnight. But I just try to remember...
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aly Martinez
14 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"I had no friends, so I told my husband I was going to make my own. And he’s like, 'You’re gonna what?' I was like, 'I’m gonna write a book.'…...
Season 2 Episode 10 - Jessica Park
07 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"That feeling—it's like a drug. You know? You get to this scene...or you make discoveries about your characters that you didn't know were there. It'...
Season 2 Episode 9 - Stevie J. Cole
28 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"As far as a process, mine’s a little like chaos. I have certain hours I write, but I never write in order, I don't plot, I can’t—I’m kind of ...
Season 2 Episode 8 - BB Easton
21 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"The ones I wrote about were my serious, long-term boyfriends. I had plenty of duds in between that were not book worthy.”— BB Easton
Season 2 Episode 7 - C. D. Reiss
14 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"I got Microsoft Word, I got unemployed, I got a computer, I didn't know what to do with it—so I started writing books.”— C.D. Reiss
Season 2 Episode 6 - JA Huss
07 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"It was an adjustment for me because I was not a collaborator...but seven books, man—you kind of get used to it.”— JA Huss
Season 2 Episode 5 - Corinne Michaels
31 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"That was how the whole story started. The four of us were at the [New Kids on the Block] concert…and the four of us, because we’re such lunatics ...
Season 2 Episode 4 - Kimberly Brower
24 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"I think I can speak for most agents when I say this; we really just want a really good book—a really well-written, well-told, well-plotted story.”...
Season 2 Episode 3 - Kelly Jamieson
17 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"I think I write to a concept more than to plot points. So I try to figure out who my characters are and what they're going to learn about themselves ...
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aleatha Romig
10 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"Instead of just telling people about the past, I like to show it to them.”— Aleatha Romig
Season 2 Episode 1 - Sawyer Bennett
03 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"If I had to say that there was one thing that defines my writing, it would be that my heroines are really strong characters.”— Sawyer Bennett
Episode 51 - She Said, He Said
27 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"It took a little convincing—and maybe some bribing—but he finally came over to the dark side.”Erica Russikoff — She Said, He Said
Episode 50 - Bryn Greenwood
20 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"I want to do a long view of what different situations look like to different characters.I write a lot of stuff that’s just one character’s perspe...
Episode 49 - Ella Fields
13 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"This guy just walked into my head. I had to write it. I was like, "Oh, my God"—I was obsessed. But I wasn't going to publish it, I just wanted to g...
Episode 48 - Leisa Rayven
06 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"...Sometimes if I get stuck writing a character, I will sort of get inside their head and write some poetry from their point of view, and it just hel...
Episode 47 - Penny Reid
29 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"Once you get to know your characters, they like to take the story in a different direction sometimes...I find that fighting my characters is an effor...
Episode 46 - Vi Keeland & Penelope Ward
15 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"We’re not very good plotters. We basically know maybe one page of stuff when we start. We’ll know maybe what the twist is, what we’re building ...
Episode 45 - Skye Warren
08 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"Over the course of writing this book I ended up finding a therapist and saying things out loud that I had never said in my entire life...just so I co...
Episode 44 - Samantha Young
31 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"If my brain is starting to hurt with writer’s block, then it’s time to just find something to distract me—because I always find that if I am di...
Episode 43 - J. Sterling
25 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"It probably sounds backwards, but I'm trying to emotionally detach and make it not so serious...They're not necessarily life-changing books, but for ...
Episode 42 - Max Monroe
18 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"Since we started writing together, it's just been such a relief to share in not only the good times that you experience, but also the struggles—bec...
Episode 41 - Kim Holden
11 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"There are those people that can sit down and write every day and they write consistently amazing books and they're built to write. But I'm not that p...
Episode 40 - Julia Whelan
04 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"I feel like this just slipped somewhere into my unconscious, and it's taken a decade—or fifteen years now, at this point—to come out.”— Julia...
Episode 39 - Helen Hoang
27 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"It felt like me embracing myself, and it felt really healthy. I loved doing that.”— Helen Hoang
Episode 38 - Devney Perry
20 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"If you would have asked me last March when I hit ‘publish’ on that first book if I would have the relationships with readers and fellow authors a...
Episode 37 - Isaac Marion
13 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"I thought this would be any interesting way to explore that feeling without it just being me talking about being sad all the time. It would be a slig...
Episode 36 - Cat Porter
06 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"My big dream was 'I want to be an actor,' and the secret dream was 'I want to write!'”— Cat Porter
Episode 35 - Christine Brae
30 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"I walk to the train every day and I see different people, and I make assumptions about them in my head. I say 'Oh, they would make a good character.....