Debut Author Podcasts

Each Debut Author Podcast is a conversation between our moderator Maggie Smith and a debut women's fiction author. 

Maggie Smith, a member of WFWA since 2015, hosts our podcast. Her debut novel, TRUTH AND OTHER LIES, placed third in the 2019 Rising Star competition and will be published in Spring 2021 by Filles-Vertes Press. Her short story, THE DEVIL YOU KNOW, appeared in the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writer’s 2018 anthology False Face and she blogs on writing-related topics for the Chicago Writers Association.  A confirmed workshop junkie and avid Instragrammer, Maggie makes her home in Milwaukee. 

Latest Podcast Episode

Debut Author Podcast: Sarah Jones

Sarah Jones is a graduate of the University of Tennessee (Go Vols) and has worked as an English teacher and a business writer before retiring to a lake community north of Atlanta, Georgia where she belongs to three book clubs, plays golf and tennis, lounges on the lake, and hosts dinner parties. 

Past Podcasts

First Name	Last Name	Debut Title (click for podcast)
Sarah	Jones	Summer Squall
Ellen	LaCorte	The Perfect Fraud
Leanne	Treese	The Language of Divorce
Kathleen	Barber	Are You Sleeping
Judy	Kundert	Sky Queen
Leslie M.	Rollins	Good-Time Girl
Marlene	Adelstein	Sophie Last Seen
Jess	Woods	The Process of Fraying
Kimberly	Lynne	A Pocketwatch, Spray Paint & Morphine
Amber	Cowie	Rapid Falls
Kaela	Coble	Friends & Other Liars
Suanne	Schafer	A Different Kind of Fire
Leah	Decesare	Forks, Knives and Spoons
Erin	Bartels	We Hope for Better Things
Romalyn	Tilghman	To the Stars Through Difficulties
Jennifer	Klepper	Unbroken Threads
Leslie Schweitzer	Miller	Discovery
Sarahlyn	Bruck	Designer You
Heather	Frimmer	Bedside Manners
Reyna Marder	Gentin	Unreasonable Doubts
Megan A.	Clancy	A Burden of a Daughter
Ann	Griffin	Another Ocean to Cross
Julie	Maloney	A Matter of Chance
Johanne	Levesque	Trouble & Strife
Sally	Crosiar	Come Back
Rachel	Dacus	The Renaissance Club
Elena	Mikalsen	Wrapped in the Stars
Denitta	Ward	Somewhere Still
Eldonna	Edwards	This I Know
Marianne	Hansen	The Unscripted Life of Lizzy Dillinger
Carrie	Mumford	All But What's Left
Irene Frances	Olson	Requiem for the Status Quo
Julie	Clark	The Ones We Choose
Barbara Solomon	Josselsohn	The Last Dreamer
Anna	Quinn	The Night Child
Jennifer	Irwin	A Dress the Color of the Sky
Lori	Henriksen	The Winter Loon
Sweta Srivastava	Vikram	Louisiana Catch