Writer's Book Club Podcast
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Katherine Collette
12 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Katherine Collette is a writing coach and mentor who helps writers who want to get published, and writers who are about to be published, know what to ...
Anita Heiss
02 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Anita Heiss talks about the writing craft and process behind her novel Dirrayawadha. Anita shares her insights about weaving research, backstory...
Jock Serong
02 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jock Serong talks about the writing craft and process behind his novel Cherrywood.Jock tells us how this novel started with several image fragments an...
Donna M Cameron
06 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Donna M Cameron talks about the writing craft and process behind her novel The Rewilding. Donna and I discussed what inspired the novel, the impo...
Terri Green
02 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Terri Green talks about the writing craft and process behind her novel An Unsuitable Pursuit. Terri and I discussed writing and self-publishing a...
Petronella McGovern
01 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Petronella McGovern talks about the writing craft and process behind her novel The Last Trace. Petronella went deep into the writing of this nove...
Michael Brissenden
01 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Brissenden talks about the writing craft and process behind his novel Smoke. Michael talks about how his gripping new novel was inspired ...
BM Carroll
01 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
NOTE: There are some spoilers in this episode.BM Carroll talks about the writing craft and process behind her novel One of Us is Missing. Writing topi...
Charlotte Wood
01 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Charlotte Wood talks about the writing craft and process behind her novel Stone Yard Devotional. Writing topics include creative process and inspirati...
Hannah Richell
02 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hannah Richell talks about the writing craft and process behind her novel The Search Party. Writing topics include structure, point of view, character...
Suzanne Leal
04 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Suzanne Leal discusses the craft and process behind her novel The Watchful Wife. Suzanne talks about balancing external and internal dialogue and...
Laurie Steed
02 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Laurie Steed discusses his craft and process for writing his short story collection Greater City Shadows. He discusses the formation of his characters...
Joanna Nell
01 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this final episode for 2023, I’m bringing you a deliciously long chat about writing craft and process with the author of five novels, Joanna Nell...
Jo Riccioni
02 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A deep dive with Jo Riccioni into the writing process and craft behind her fantasy novels The Branded and The Rising.We talked about Jo's writing proc...
Sally Hepworth
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sally Hepworth talks about the writing process for her novel Darling Girls.We discussed writing craft aspects including inspiration, research, charact...
Kate Mildenhall
01 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kate Mildenhall talks about the writing process for her novel The Hummingbird Effect. We discussed writing craft aspects including structure, voi...
Allison Tait
31 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Allison Tait talks about the writing process for her middle-grade novel The First Summer of Callie McGee. We discussed writing craft aspects incl...
Brendan Cowell
02 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Brendan Cowell talks about the writing process for his novel Plum. We discussed writing craft aspects including:- how the main theme of the novel...
Victoria Purman
03 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Victoria Purman talks about the writing process for her novel A Woman’s Work, an historical novel set in Melbourne in 1956.We discussed so many writ...
Rae Cairns
01 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rae Cairns talks about the writing process for her novel Dying To Know, a crime thriller. We discussed so many writing craft aspects including:-...
Amanda Hampson
03 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Amanda Hampson talks about the writing process for her novel The Tea Ladies, a wickedly witty cosy crime novel set in Sydney in the swinging sixties, ...
Rachael Mogan McIntosh
01 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rachael Mogan McIntosh talks about the writing process for her memoir Pardon My French, a candid, hilarious love letter to family life and France with...
Kate Forsyth
05 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
EPISODE SHOW NOTESIn this episode, Kate Forsyth takes us through the writing process for a selection of her works including The Crimson Thread, Bitter...
Rachael Johns
04 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
THIS EPISODE CONTAINS SPOILERS.In this episode, Rachael Johns takes us through the process behind writing her novel The Work Wives. Rachael very ...
Caroline Overington
01 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Caroline Overington takes us through the process behind writing her novel The Cuckoo’s Cry. Caroline talks about how the novel...
Mark Smith
01 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Mark Smith takes us through the process behind writing his novel The Road to Winter. Mark talked about finding his writing voic...
John Purcell
05 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, John Purcell takes us through the process behind writing his novel The Lessons. We had one of those wonderful long meandering c...
Michael Robotham
02 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
* THERE ARE SPOILERS IN THIS EPISODE*In this episode, Michael Robotham takes us through the process behind writing his novel Lying Beside You. Lying B...
Pamela Cook
02 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Pamela Cook takes us through the process behind writing her novel All We Dream. We talked about the differences between traditional a...
Nigel Featherstone
03 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This month my guest is Nigel Featherstone, chatting about the writing of his latest novel My Heart is a Little Wild Thing. Even though he’s already ...
Toni Jordan
03 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Toni Jordan takes us through the process behind writing her novel Dinner with the Schnabels. We talked about point of view and why sh...
Hannah Kent
01 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Hannah Kents takes us through the process behind writing her novel Devotion. We talked about how she writes her way into the voice of...
Penelope Janu
01 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Penelope Janu takes us through the process behind writing her novel Clouds on the Horizon. We talked about finding the voice of the c...
Ashley Kalagian Blunt
01 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
collected essays. My Name is Revenge was longlisted for 2020 Davitt Awards, shortlisted for the 2019 Woollahra Digital Literary Aw...
Markus Zusak
01 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Markus Zusak and I talk about the writing process behind his novels Bridge of Clay, The Book Thief and The Messenger. Markus talks ab...
Jessica Dettmann
02 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Jessica Dettmann and I talked about the writing process behind her novel This Has Been Absolutely Lovely. Jessica talks about what in...
Lynette Noni
03 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Lynette Noni is currently Australia’s number one YA fiction author of ten novels including The Medoran Chronicles, the Whisper Duology and now The P...
Kyle Perry
01 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This month I had a brilliant chat with Tasmanian author Kyle Perry about his novel The Deep.I’d heard Kyle talk about his writing process before and...
Meredith Jaffe
01 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This month I had a lovely long chat with Meredith Jaffe about her latest novel The Dressmakers of Yarrandarrah Prison.In this episode, Meredith takes ...
Nikki Gemmell
01 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This month I was lucky enough to chat with Nikki Gemmell about her latest novel The Ripping Tree. I am a long-term fan of Nikki’s beginning whe...
Jaclyn Moriarty
02 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This month I spent a delightful hour chatting with Australian novelist Jaclyn Moriarty about her book for adults Gravity Is The Thing.We talked about ...
Candice Fox
03 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I first met Candice at a writer's festival in 2019 and was struck by how generous she was with her experiences as a writer which, of course, is exactl...
Kylie Ladd
01 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kylie and I first met on Twitter quite a few years ago (as you do) and I remember being struck by her honesty about her writing and her experience wit...
Natasha Lester
27 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Natasha Lester was our very first guest on the podcast. We took a deep dive with Natasha into the writing process and craft behind her novel The Paris...
Writer’s Book Club Trailer
01 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Writer’s Book Club is just like a regular book club but each month we’ll take a deep dive into a specific novel from a writing craft perspect...