My Best Writing Tip
Episodes
Fanning Out: The James Bond Franchise
26 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This is a podcast explicitly about the craft of writing—except when it’s not.For these “Fanning Out” bonus episodes, Ted is joined by his vide...
Marie Ellis on Mapping and Outlining
15 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Ted is joined by Marie Ellis, a Sunday Times number 1-bestselling ghostwriter and editor for books as well as the founder of the boutique content agen...
Fanning Out: Seinfeld’s ‘The Invitations’
31 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This is a podcast explicitly about the craft of writing—except when it’s not.For these “Fanning Out” bonus episodes, Ted is joined by his vide...
Shobha Rao on Not Becoming Attached
15 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Ted is joined by Shobha Rao, the author of the short story collection An Unrestored Woman and the novels Indian Country and Girls Burn Brighter. Shobh...
My Best Writing Tip Trailer
15 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A separate description for a trailer episode feels a little silly, so here’s the transcript instead.--Hi, my name is Ted Fox, and I’m the author o...
My Best Writing Tip
15 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this solo pod, Ted offers up his absolutely, positively, one-and-only best writing tip (how’s that for some attempted SEO optimization?).Plus an ...
Plotting Through Multiple POVs
15 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ted is joined by Alice Florence Orr of Podcast Review, who also just so happens to be a novelist. Her work has been featured in publications including...
Writing, One Music Podcast at a Time
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ted is joined by Rob Harvilla, the host of the podcast 60 Songs That Explain the ’90s and a senior staff writer at The Ringer. A professional rock c...
Finding the Next Write Thing
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ted is joined by Dave Cohen, a writer, comedian, founding member of the Comedy Store Players, and one of the most respected teachers of comedy writing...
Making Our Writing Good Company
15 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a different kind of episode, Ted is joined by Jim Lang, an emeritus professor of English at Assumption University and current professor of the prac...
The Ellipses of History
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ted is joined by Nishant Batsha, whose second novel, A Bomb Placed Close to the Heart, was published this month by ecco/HarperCollins. He is also the ...
It’s All the In-Between Time
15 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
No guest this month, so Ted revisits a previous solo pod, during which he talked about the challenges of navigating the months in between when you sub...
Those Places Between Like and Love
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ted is joined this month by not one but two amazing guests, Jennifer Acker and Emily Everett. Jennifer is the founder and editor in chief of The Commo...
In Pursuit of What Works This Time
15 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ted is joined by Maggie Su, whose debut novel, Blob: A Love Story, was published in January to praise from The New York Times Book Review, Publishers ...
Telling Something Good and True
15 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ted is joined by Annie B. Jones, the author of the soon-to-be-released Ordinary Time: Lessons Learned While Staying Put. A book of essays, it draws on...
Why We Keep Climbing Through It
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ted is joined by Angela Montoya, whose debut novel, Sinner’s Isle, received starred reviews from Kirkus and Publishers Weekly and trade reviews from...
Creativity Uncensored
15 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ted is joined by Katherine J. Igoe, a writer and editor who’s been freelancing since 2011. At the moment, she is also a contributing syndications ed...
We Aren’t Alone
15 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A short post-election break from our regularly scheduled programming.Website Mentioned in This Episode:Postcards to Voters: postcardstovoters.orgWorki...
Easter Eggs for Ourselves
15 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ted is joined by Kirthana Ramisetti, author of the novels Advika and the Hollywood Wives and Dava Shastri’s Last Day, a Good Morning America Book Cl...
Five-Star Advice
15 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ted is joined by Laura Hankin, an author, screenwriter, and performer. Her books include The Daydreams, one of the “Best Beach Reads of 2023” (Har...
When the Laugh Has the Say
18 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ted is joined by Alyssa Neece, his real-life coworker who shares his passion for making funny stuff outside of the office. For Alyssa, though, it’s ...
A Process of Complete Disorganization
15 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ted is joined this month by Lauren Aliza Green, author of the just-released novel The World After Alice, a “most anticipated” book by Vogue, Town ...
Novel Origin Stories
15 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
To mark the release of his new rom-com, Date Week, which is out June 25, Ted is joined this month not by another writer but his longtime literary agen...
The Venn Diagram of Horror and Humor
15 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ted is joined by Johnny Compton, a Stoker Award-nominated, San Antonio-based author of horror stories whose debut novel, The Spite House, was released...
The In-Between Time and Starting Over
15 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this solo pod, Ted talks about the challenges—both external and internal—that come with navigating the months in between when you submit your f...
Writing a Little Light Murder
15 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ted is joined by Lauren Wilkinson, whose debut novel, American Spy, was a Washington Post bestseller, an NAACP Image Award nominee, an Anthony Award n...
Wrestling the Octopus (and Loving It)
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ted is joined by Bianca Marais, author of the bestselling The Witches of Moonshyne Manor, the beloved Hum If You Don't Know the Words and If You ...
Ted’s 4 P’s of Book Writing
15 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ted flies solo this month and uses it as an opportunity to presume you might be interested in him telling you how he approaches the entire book-writin...
A Novel Thesis
15 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ted is joined by Patrick Carey, a 2023 graduate of the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Creative Writing program at Colorado State University.Patrick’s ...
Things That Make You Go Ha
15 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ted is joined by Sheila Yasmin Marikar, the author of the novel The Goddess Effect, which Kevin Kwan (Crazy Rich Asians, Sex and Vanity) called “a f...
A Shoutout to Editors and Self-Care
15 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ted flies solo this month and shares a little about his own work in progress, the forthcoming rom-com Date Week, which will be published next summer b...
Spinning the Suffering
15 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ted is joined by Patrick Parr, the author of two nonfiction books: The Seminarian: Martin Luther King Jr. Comes of Age and One Week in America: The 19...
Finding a (Ghost-Agnostic) Voice in YA
15 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ted is joined by Kat Higgs-Coulthard, the author of the middle-grade book Hanging With My Peeps as well as the YA novel Junkyard Dogs. The latter was ...
Making Contemporary Fiction Historical-ish
15 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ted is joined by Amy Carol Reeves, the author of Ripper, a YA paranormal Gothic novel about the Jack the Ripper murders in Victorian London, as well a...
Working Drafts Trailer
15 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A separate description for a trailer episode feels a little silly, so here’s the transcript instead.--Hi, my name is Ted Fox, and I’m the author o...