Episodes
Monday Feb 11, 2019
Episode 59: Tasha L. Harrison
Monday Feb 11, 2019
Monday Feb 11, 2019
Today’s episode is a wide-ranging conversation with the hilarious, gracious, and brilliant Tasha L. Harrison, romance and erotica author, freelance editor, and a creative entrepreneur dedicated to helping new and aspiring word makers become authors. This recording is actually take 2 – our first conversation was sacrificed to the technology gods last week, so we’re extra grateful to Tasha. You can find her at tashalharrison.com, or on Twitter and Instagram@tashalharrison
We talk stationery and planners, writing romance, what it’s like to write while working as an editor, the barriers to writers of color in traditional publishing, the realities of self-publishing, the money (or lack of) in self-publishing, gaming Amazon, planning a story, how to get past the 26,000-word wall, defining writing, going full-time, Buzzfeed layoffs, jealousy, working with agents, writing backwards, Caroline Donahue and The Secret Library podcast, cross-pollination, and how your day job helps your creativity. Whew! I think that’s it.
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Visit our website, marginallypodcast.com, for complete show notes and to get in touch.
Find us on Instagram @marginallypodcastor Facebook. Meghan's on Twitter @meghanembee, and Olivia’s @roamingolivia
Theme music is "It's Time" by Scaricá Ricascá
Monday Dec 17, 2018
Episode 54: Business, being idle and the creative life with Tom Hodgkinson
Monday Dec 17, 2018
Monday Dec 17, 2018
In today's episode, we talk to bohemian businessman Tom Hodgkinson. In 2002 Tom quit the commercial world and retired to a farmhouse on the coast of North Devon to write books. His first book How to be Idle was a global best-seller and is one of our favorites. That success was followed by several others, including another of our favorites: Business for Bohemians.
In 2014 Tom returned to London to launch and develop the Idler Academy, both in the real world and online. In 2016, he and the Idler team relaunched the Idler as a magazine, raising £150,000 from 146 investors via the platform Crowdcube.
In this episode, we have a delightful conversation with Tom about his philosophy for life and work, and he shares practical tips for how we can live as bohemians - even if we keep our day jobs or don't intend to earn our living from writing.
As always, we'd love for you to take a minute to rate and review using your podcast app, as this helps other listeners find the show.
Find us on Instagram @marginallypodcastor Facebook. Meghan's on Twitter @meghanembee, and Olivia’s @roamingolivia
Theme music is "It's Time" by Scaricá Ricascá.
Have a question you'd like us to try to answer, or a topic you'd love to have us cover? Interested in being a guest? Contact us here.Thanks for listening, and get to work!
Monday Nov 19, 2018
Episode 51: Paul Jarvis on growing your brand intentionally
Monday Nov 19, 2018
Monday Nov 19, 2018
In today's episode, we talk to writer and designer Paul Jarvis, who has many insightful things about how to grow your brand in an intentional way, and about making the transition from a day job to writing full-time.
In this episode, we talked about
- how he made that transition himself,
- how introverted writers can build their brand,
- what Spiderman can tell you about achieving your dreams,
- why both lower bounds and upper bounds are important when you're setting goals,
- the questions he asks himself to know what is enough, and
- scorpions.
Paul Jarvis is a writer and designer who’s worked with professional athletes like Steve Nash and Shaquille O’Neal, corporate giants like Microsoft and Mercedes-Benz, and entrepreneurs with online empires like Danielle LaPorte and Marie Forleo. Currently he teaches popular online courses, hosts several podcasts and develops small but mighty software solutions.
Paul has just released Company of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing in Business, a book we talk about on the podcast, about being intentional in deciding how to grow your brand and business - a concept we apply to the creative life. You can find out more on the book at ofone.co.
Paul also sends out a weekly newsletter, called the Sunday Dispatches, and his website has a lot of archives of his writing, which we recommend checking out.
As always, we'd love for you to take a minute to rate and review us in your podcast app, as this helps other listeners find the show.
Find us on Instagram @marginallypodcast or Facebook. Meghan's on Twitter @meghanembee, and Olivia’s @roamingolivia.
Theme music is "It's Time" by Scaricá Ricascá.
Have a question you'd like us to try to answer, or a topic you'd love to have us cover? Interested in being a guest? Contact us here. Thanks for listening, and get to work!
Sunday Oct 28, 2018
Episode 48: Manjula Martin
Sunday Oct 28, 2018
Sunday Oct 28, 2018
Today's guest is Manjula Martin, the creator of Who Pays Writers and the editor of Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living . Her writing has appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review, Pacific Standard, Aeon Magazine, Hazlitt Magazine, Nieman Storyboard, and The Awl, among other publications.
Martin’s next nonfiction book will be Fruit Trees for Every Garden, cowritten with Orin Martin, forthcoming in Fall 2019 from Ten Speed Press.
Martin is the managing editor of Zoetrope: All-Story, the National Magazine Award–winning fiction and art magazine published by Francis Ford Coppola. She has previously worked in varied editorial and writing capacities with book and magazine publishers, nonprofit organizations, and arts organizations. She lives in San Francisco. You can find her at manjulamartin.com.
We talk about:
- What Manjula has learned from many years of writing, blogging and editing about writers and money;
- Balancing (or not) many creative projects when you have a day job;
- The importance of prioritizing the work you consider to be your art;
- YOLO;
- Her gardening book coming out in 2019;
- Branding and genre-hopping
As always, we'd love for you to take a minute to rate and review usin your podcast app, as this helps other listeners find the show.
Visit our website, marginallypodcast.com, for complete show notes and to get in touch.
Find us on Instagram @marginallypodcastor Facebook. Meghan's on Twitter @meghanembee, and Olivia’s @roamingolivia
Theme music is "It's Time" by Scaricá Ricascá
Sunday Oct 07, 2018
Episode 46: Was There A Golden Age of Short Stories?
Sunday Oct 07, 2018
Sunday Oct 07, 2018
In Episode 46, we do some myth-busting in our exploration of whether there was really a golden age of short stories. When was it? Were people really able to make a living writing short stories? What's the short story market like now?
What we found out:
- We're proponents of the theory that there was a long golden age
- Maybe it was better
- But it wasn't really that good
We talk about Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Gaskill and others, and we talk about what people say they get paid now.
Finally, we talk about the update Susan Dennard sent out to her earlier newsletter post, Income As A Writer - with comments from her agent Joanna Volpe. The original post is here.
You can listen to the episode right here on this page, or get Marginally on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, or wherever get your podcasts.
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You can listen right here on this page, or get Marginally on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, or wherever get your podcasts.
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Theme music is "It's Time" by Scaricá Ricascá.
Sunday Sep 23, 2018
Episode 44: Jane Friedman and the business of writing
Sunday Sep 23, 2018
Sunday Sep 23, 2018
In this week's episode, we talk to Jane Friedman, an expert in the publishing industry who has written with much insight, candor and calm about the business of writing and publishing. In her spare time, Jane writes creative nonfiction, which has been included in the anthologies Every Father's Daughter and Drinking Diaries.
Jane describes herself as sitting at the intersection of several communities, giving her a 360-degree view of the changes now shaping writing and publishing. She sees herself as serving as a bridge between these communities. She was so knowledgeable about the publishing industry and about writing, and we loved talking to her about:
- her tips for which writing-related activities can help to make the most impact in building your persona as a writer, even if you have limited time,
- why you might make more from your readers than your publisher,
- why she's optimistic about the potential for writers to make money,
- tips for understanding marketing yourself as a writer, and
- the research about writing and money that she wishes someone would do.
You can find Jane at her website, her subscription newsletter Hot Sheet (with Porter Anderson), Facebook, Twitterand YouTube (other social media links are on her website). Her latest book is The Business of Being A Writer.
As always, we'd love for you to take a minute to rate and review usin your podcast app, as this helps other listeners find the show.
Visit our website, marginallypodcast.com, for the full show notes and to get in touch.
Find us on Instagram @marginallypodcastor Facebook. Meghan's on Twitter @meghanembee, and Olivia’s @roamingolivia
Theme music is "It's Time" by Scaricá Ricascá
Sunday Aug 12, 2018
Episode 40: KJ Dell'Antonia and how to be a happier writer
Sunday Aug 12, 2018
Sunday Aug 12, 2018
This month, we interview KJ Dell'Antonia, the author of the very-soon-to-be-released book How To Be A Happier Parent, parent, former New York Timesreporter and editor of the NYT's Motherlodeblog and contributing editor of the NYT's Well Family section. Our listeners are probably most familiar with KJ as the co-host of the wonderful #AmWriting podcast. KJ talked to us about how to hold on to your writer self, even when little humans need something from you, in order to get the words down. Her tips aren't just for parents, either -- there's a lot that non-parents can learn, too. She also talks about charting a path toward being a writer, making the transition from nonfiction to fiction, and the value of writing friendships.
As always, we'd love for you to take a minute to rate and review us in your podcast app, as this helps other listeners find the show.
Visit our website, marginallypodcast.com, for complete show notes and to get in touch.
Find us on Instagram @marginallypodcast Meghan's on Twitter @meghanembee, and Olivia’s @roamingolivia
Sunday Jul 22, 2018
Sunday Jul 22, 2018
This month, we present our conversation with writer Jean Hannah Edelstein about the all-too-often unspoken realities of making a living – one of which is that it’s not often done with writing. We also talk about the glories of being an underachiever at the day job while still using writing skills (check out episode 35with Caroline Donahue for more about choosing a day job that leaves you with enough mental and physical space to pursue writing), how a rigid writing schedule doesn’t work for everyone, and giving yourself permission to be a writer.
Jean is a Brooklyn-based writer who’s a frequent freelance contributor to many publications including The Guardian, The Pool, and Elle. Her day job is in marketing, working with tech companies like Etsy, her current position. Her forthcoming memoir, This Really Isn’t About You, about grief, family, immigration, love, cancer and one very special colonoscopy, among other things, will be published by Picador in the UK in August, 2018. We first found Jean through her TinyLetter Thread, which we highly recommend. You can sign up for it and read more about Jean at jeanhannahedelstein.comand follow her on Twitter @jhedelstein.
As always, we'd love for you to take a minute to rate and review us in your podcast app, as this helps other listeners find the show.
Visit our website, marginallypodcast.com, for complete show notes and to get in touch.
Find us on Instagram @marginallypodcast Meghan's on Twitter @meghanembee, and Olivia is @roamingolivia
Theme music is "It's Time" by Scaricá Ricascá
Sunday Jun 17, 2018
Sunday Jun 17, 2018
In this episode for June, we took advantage of Olivia's parents' visit to her to record a special Father's Day episode with her dad, Fred Allison, who is a historian by day and a writer by evenings/weekends. He has published several books and articles about military history. His most recent book is We Were Going to Win, Or Die There, a book based on numerous oral history interviews he did with the Marine Roy H. Elrod. This book has recently won a Marine Corps Heritage award.
We loved talking to him on a range of topics, from the "ugly business" of cutting down the word count, working on too many projects at once, and being brave and quitting your job when you have four kids. And, how to think like a fighter pilot when you're writing.
You can listen to the episode right here on this page, or get Marginally on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, or wherever get your podcasts.
As always, we'd love for you to take a minute to rate and review us in your podcast app, as this helps other listeners find the show.
Find us on Instagram @marginallypodcast. Meghan's on Twitter @meghanembee.
Theme music is "It's Time" by Scaricá Ricascá.
Have a question you'd like us to try to answer, or a topic you'd love to have us cover? Interested in being a guest? Contact us here.Thanks for listening, and get to work!
Sunday May 20, 2018
Episode 36: Writer and teacher Jess Lahey of #AmWriting
Sunday May 20, 2018
Sunday May 20, 2018
We interviewed Jessica Lahey, a teacher, writer and co-host from the wonderful #AmWriting podcast. Jess talked us through how keeping her day job keeps her writing and ideas fresh, the difficulties of writing when she's on the road on speaking tours. She gives some good tips on how to balance speaking gigs and freelance work, should you be looking to go that direction. And she has great advice on being kind to yourself and living a writing life, and the importance of writing friendships.
You can find Jess at jessicalahey.com, on her publisher Harper Collins's site for The Gift of Failure here, on Twitter, on Instagramand on Facebook.
You can find her and KJ Dell'Antoniaat their podcast #AmWriting's on iTunesor on AudioBoom.
As always, we'd love for you to take a minute to rate and review us in your podcast app, as this helps other listeners find the show.
Visit our website, marginallypodcast.com, for complete show notes and to get in touch.
Find us on Instagram @marginallypodcast Meghan's on Twitter @meghanembee.
Theme music is "It's Time" by Scaricá Ricascá