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Did you know I cohost a disaster class on writing with @monawest.bsky.social? It's called Unfortunately... and it's available wherever you get your podcasts. The complete first season is out now, and we're excited about season two - coming later this year.

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It's Like Throwing a Pebble into Space In the final episode of season one, Mona and Courtney chat about their top failures of 2025, self-forgiveness in writing, season one's highs and lows, and what we're thinking about for season two. Cou...

Our (delayed) season one finale is out now!

Pacemaker A Word Count Planner for Writers and Students

I (Courtney) am running behind getting our final season 1 episode up. I'm hoping to get it out this weekend. In the meantime:

Wanna do a short writing (or editing or reading or crafting or whatever) challenge with us this month?

Details and join link here:

It's Never Gonna Be Perfect Courtney and Mona chat with author Jennifer Hudak about negotiating major career shifts, the necessity of fallow periods, negotiating identity as a writer, and finding ways to build resilience. Transc...

Episode 24 - Unfortunately... It's Never Gonna Be Perfect with @jenniferhudak.bsky.social is out now!

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This is such a great podcast, and always love hearing what @jenniferhudak.bsky.social has to say!

I had a blast chatting with @courtney-floyd.com and @monawest.bsky.social about learning and growing from failure, art that takes as long as it takes, and how it's important to let yourself suck at something.

We have one more guest interview this season, and it's a phenomenal one. Tune in this Friday for the rest of our chat with @jenniferhudak.bsky.social!

The Book of Your Heart is Not on Trend Courtney and Mona chat with debut novelist Emily Zipps about going on sub when the world is on fire, silence around the novel submission process, the debut learning curve (options and deadline jugglin...

Episode 23: Unfortunately... The Book of Your Heart is Not on Trend with @emilyzipps.bsky.social is out now!

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Episode 23 with @emilyzipps.bsky.social is out tomorrow (in just a few more hours really)! Here's a preview:

If You Force the Zipper, It Won't Budge Courtney and Mona chat with debut author, Piper L. White, about the debut learning curve, how other types writing and art inform and interconnect with our fiction, and writing genre in a BFA program. ...

New episode day!!!

Unfortunately... If You Force the Zipper, it Won't Budge with @piperlwhite.bsky.social is out now!

We had such a blast chatting with Piper about the fact that everything is writing, the genre wars, and debut year!

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In tomorrow's episode, we're chatting with debut author @piperlwhite.bsky.social about all of the varied ways we write, moving between genres and modes, and lots more. Here's a little preview!

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It's an Economy of Favors Courtney and Mona chat publishing, precarity, and privilege with debut author Lacey Dunham. Transcripts here! Find Lacey online at www.laceyndunham.com., on Bluesky and on Instagram. And check out T...

New episode!

Unfortunately... It's an Economy of Favors with Lacey Dunham is available wherever you listen to podcasts.

Thank you so much to @bookbent.bsky.social for joining us! #WritingCommunity #WritingPodcast

On tomorrow's episode, with guest @bookbent.bsky.social, we're chatting publishing, precarity, and privilege.

Lacey's debut dark academia, The Belles, is out as of last week -- help her celebrate debut month by snagging a copy or requesting at your library!

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Including the link might have been helpful 😂

We had a delay, but episode 20 is finally here!

Listen to *Unfortunately... It's Like Army Crawling Through 30 Inches of Snow* with guest author, Rebecca Danzenbaker, wherever you get you podcasts. #WritingCommunity #WritingPodcast

You Need a Suitcase Full of Skills Mona and Courtney chat with author Lisa Tirreno about shifting from journalism to novel writing, celebrating rejections, gamifying the writing process, motivation, and working out what works for you a...

While we were out at WorldCon, our latest episode dropped! Check out Episode 19: Unfortunately... You Need a Suitcase Full of Skills with @lisatirrenoauthor.bsky.social!

Here's a preview of Friday's episode, with @lisatirrenoauthor.bsky.social. We chat about coming to writing from journalism, gamifying rejections, and so much more! #WritingCommunity #WritingPodcast

The publishing anxiety is so real.

It's a new episode day!

We chatted with debut author Alysha Rameera about the feeling of not being enough to write your culture, how vital work-life balance can be in writing, and our strategies for managing publishing anxiety. #WritingPodcast #WritingCommunity

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Our Unfortunately... episode is now live! Really loved chatting with Courtney and Mona about our journey and the unique ups and downs of being co-writers.

The Unfortunately train crashing on an out bridge with the text Unfortunately... You're (Not?) Two Halves of the Same Brain. On tickets at the bottom of the graphic text reads Episode 17 with MK Hardy.

Episode 17 is out now!

We chat with @mkhardywrites.com, co-authors of debut Sapphic Gothic Horror, The Needfire (out 7/31!), about co-writing & editing, managing disagreements, & creating community.

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This Friday our latest episode with @mkhardywrites.com hits the feed.

We had a fantastic chat about co-writing, editing, navigating the industry with optimism, and building community! #WritingPodcast #WritingCommunity

woohoo! had a lot of fun talking about writing, journey, quitting and more!

New episode day!

Listen to Ep 16 - Progress isn't an Upward Slope with
@rukman.bsky.social here:

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New episode tomorrow!

Here's a preview of our conversation with author @rukman.bsky.social, who braved a storm and internet issues to chat with us the importance of complexity in representation, getting paid, why it's okay to quit, survivorship bias, and so much more.

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I had the honor of being a guest on the Unfortunately...Podcast! If you're a writer who has ever gotten an "Unfortunately..." message, this podcast is for you! It's a writer to writer discussion about craft and how we learn from failures. Here's my episode, but you should listen to them all!

It has unironically been such a joy to commiserate with so many amazing and gracious writers. Failure loves company, so give us a listen!

Oh, also, we chugged past a milestone over the weekend... Thank you so much for listening!

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