The Chosen Ones and Other Tropes

It's all numbers and percentages this week as Naomi and Melissa walk us through the financial breakdown of publishing a novel from the authors point of view.

• Naomi Gibson, author of Every Line of You, Game Over Girl
• Melissa Welliver, author of The Undying Tower, My Love Life and the Apocalypse, Soulmates and Other Ways to Die
• Jamie Greenwood, creator & host of the Write and Wrong Podcast

Melissa and Naomi walk us through everything they learned and experienced with the releases of the debut novels and reflect on how differently they approach the publicity and marketing of their books now.

• Naomi Gibson, author of Every Line of You, Game Over Girl
• Melissa Welliver, author of The Undying Tower, My Love Life and the Apocalypse, Soulmates and Other Ways to Die
• Jamie Greenwood, creator & host of the Write and Wrong Podcast

Naomi and Melissa compare notes about their first book deals and are surprised at how different some of their experiences were.

• Naomi Gibson, author of Every Line of You, Game Over Girl
• Melissa Welliver, author of The Undying Tower, My Love Life and the Apocalypse, Soulmates and Other Ways to Die
• Jamie Greenwood, creator & host of the Write and Wrong Podcast

In this one we're chatting about what happens between signing with an agent and going out on submission to try and secure a book deal.

• Naomi Gibson, author of Every Line of You, Game Over Girl
• Melissa Welliver, author of The Undying Tower, My Love Life and the Apocalypse, Soulmates and Other Ways to Die
• Jamie Greenwood, creator & host of the Write and Wrong Podcast

We're back with more publishing myths and this week it's all about literary agents.

• Naomi Gibson, author of Every Line of You, Game Over Girl
• Melissa Welliver, author of The Undying Tower, My Love Life and the Apocalypse, Soulmates and Other Ways to Die
• Jamie Greenwood, creator & host of the Write and Wrong Podcast

This season, we're diving into the many myths and tropes of publishing a novel. From inception to writing, to querying agents, working with editors, and all the way through to publication. We're covering everything we've heard and learned about publishing.

• Naomi Gibson, author of Every Line of You, Game Over Girl
• Melissa Welliver, author of The Undying Tower, My Love Life and the Apocalypse, Soulmates and Other Ways to Die
• Jamie Greenwood, creator & host of the Write and Wrong Podcast

On this season finale we are jumping in on the much discussed topics of new adult and crossover, what they mean and where they fit into the publishing spectrum.

• Naomi Gibson, author of Every Line of You, Game Over Girl
• Melissa Welliver, author of The Undying Tower, My Love Life and the Apocalypse, Soulmates and Other Ways to Die
• Jamie Greenwood, creator & host of the Write and Wrong Podcast

This was a fun one! None of us have much experience with this genre and so it was a massive learning curve but I think it might have inspired us to pick up some Ice Hockey romance! 

• Naomi Gibson, author of Every Line of You, Game Over Girl
• Melissa Welliver, author of The Undying Tower, My Love Life and the Apocalypse, Soulmates and Other Ways to Die
• Jamie Greenwood, creator & host of the Write and Wrong Podcast

Jamie and Melissa are loving the rise of cosy genres at the moment and get into some really fun tropes in this one, whilst Naomi wrestles with how wholesome it all is!

• Naomi Gibson, author of Every Line of You, Game Over Girl
• Melissa Welliver, author of The Undying Tower, My Love Life and the Apocalypse, Soulmates and Other Ways to Die
• Jamie Greenwood, creator & host of the Write and Wrong Podcast

Naomi takes point on this one telling us all about one of her absolute favourites, the Unreliable Narrator. Jamie and Melissa try to chip in as well.

• Naomi Gibson, author of Every Line of You, Game Over Girl
• Melissa Welliver, author of The Undying Tower, My Love Life and the Apocalypse, Soulmates and Other Ways to Die
• Jamie Greenwood, creator & host of the Write and Wrong Podcast

Some Harry Potter follow up at the start and then we jump into some familiar tropes in the fun genre fusion of paranormal romance!

• Naomi Gibson, author of Every Line of You, Game Over Girl
• Melissa Welliver, author of The Undying Tower, My Love Life and the Apocalypse, Soulmates and Other Ways to Die
• Jamie Greenwood, creator & host of the Write and Wrong Podcast

Fantasy is in a fascinating spot right now with romantasy being more popular than ever and Brandon Sanderson breaking crowdfunding records left and right, so on this episode we jump into what has become a very popular part of all this, contemporary fantasy settings.

• Naomi Gibson, author of Every Line of You, Game Over Girl
• Melissa Welliver, author of The Undying Tower, My Love Life and the Apocalypse, Soulmates and Other Ways to Die
• Jamie Greenwood, creator & host of the Write and Wrong Podcast

This week we're onto crime and mystery tropes, so it's all detectives, law enforcement and being trapped together!

• Naomi Gibson, author of Every Line of You, Game Over Girl
• Melissa Welliver, author of The Undying Tower, My Love Life and the Apocalypse
• Jamie Greenwood, creator & host of the Write and Wrong Podcast

Continuing the theme of the season, this episode we each pick a romantasy trope! If you want a deeper dive on each of these we did an entire 10 run season dedicated to romantasy.

• Naomi Gibson, author of Every Line of You, Game Over Girl
• Melissa Welliver, author of The Undying Tower, My Love Life and the Apocalypse
• Jamie Greenwood, creator & host of the Write and Wrong Podcast

This season we are going to pick our favourite tropes from the genres that we discussed and think might be popular this year in publishing. First up, our favourite horror tropes!

• Naomi Gibson, author of Every Line of You, Game Over Girl
• Melissa Welliver, author of The Undying Tower, My Love Life and the Apocalypse
• Jamie Greenwood, creator & host of the Write and Wrong Podcast

We're back and we're kicking off the year with some predictions for what we think is going to be popular in the world of writing, books and publishing for 2024! Shoutout to our friends over at the WriteMentor Hub for all their helpful suggestions!

• Naomi Gibson, author of Every Line of You, Game Over Girl
• Melissa Welliver, author of The Undying Tower, My Love Life and the Apocalypse
• Jamie Greenwood, creator & host of the Write and Wrong Podcast

To wrap up our second season, the loosely romance themed one, we're going back to the tier list. Tune in for lots of arguing about which trope goes where and whether we agree with where we put some of the tropes from season 1.

• Naomi Gibson, author of Every Line of You, Game Over Girl
• Melissa Welliver, author of The Undying Tower, My Love Life and the Apocalypse
• Jamie Greenwood, creator & host of the Write and Wrong Podcast

Making two characters who would never otherwise spend time together is always a great recipe for conflict and intrigue, but there is a pretty intense dark-side to this one.

• Naomi Gibson, author of Every Line of You, Game Over Girl
• Melissa Welliver, author of The Undying Tower, My Love Life and the Apocalypse
• Jamie Greenwood, creator & host of the Write and Wrong Podcast

It's weird, creepy and rarely works but we get into the weeds with this one. This trope is pretty toxic.

• Naomi Gibson, author of Every Line of You, Game Over Girl
• Melissa Welliver, author of The Undying Tower, My Love Life and the Apocalypse
• Jamie Greenwood, creator & host of the Write and Wrong Podcast

It's a weird one to talk about because it only really comes up when it's done badly. Tune in to hear us try and define it, whilst constantly contradicting our own definitions but sort of, vaguely getting close to an understanding by the end. Maybe.

• Naomi Gibson, author of Every Line of You, Game Over Girl
• Melissa Welliver, author of The Undying Tower, My Love Life and the Apocalypse
• Jamie Greenwood, creator & host of the Write and Wrong Podcast