Oct 29, 202636 min
Our podcast guest this week is Alexandria Faulkenbury (Somewhere Past The End, Apprentice House Press at Loyola University, Baltimore, May 2025). Alexandria explains what it's like to work with a university-based...
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Hear us Roar
Hosted by Maggie Smith · arts · EN
About this Podcast:
If you're an aspiring author and want insights into what's involved in launching a book into the world, this is the podcast for you. Maggie Smith, author and blogger, interviews debut novelists from the Women's Fiction Writers Association discussing not only the inspiration behind their book, but also their insights into the writing process, the best advice they ever got, and the joys and sometimes pitfalls they encountered on their path to publication.
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What is Hear us Roar about?
If you're an aspiring author and want insights into what's involved in launching a book into the world, this is the podcast for you.
Who hosts Hear us Roar?
Hear us Roar is hosted by Maggie Smith. The show has published 345 episodes to date.
What has Hear us Roar covered recently?
Recent episodes include "340: Alexandria Faulkenbury - Author of Somewhere Past the End" (29 October 2026, 36 minutes), "339: Julie Wise - Author of Make No Mistake - The Novel" (22 October 2026, 33 minutes), and "338: Joan Fernandez - Author of Saving Vincent - A Novel of Jo van Gogh" (15 October 2026, 38 minutes).
How often does Hear us Roar publish?
Hear us Roar publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 36 minutes across 345 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on Hear us Roar?
Booking probability for Hear us Roar is 38%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Hear us Roar requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Hear us Roar's contact route on record: verified email.
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The strongest fits for Hear us Roar are News, Magazine & Book Publishing. Hear us Roar has an arts audience.
About the host
Maggie Smith hosts Hear us Roar, an arts podcast with 345 episodes published.
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Recent episodes
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Oct 22, 202633 minThis week we welcome Julie Wise, a Canadian author (Make No Mistake: The Novel, indie published, May 2025) to discuss her debut featuring older women activists which one reader called "The Handmaid's Tale with a Molotov...
Oct 15, 202638 minThis week our guest is Joan Fernandez (Saving Vincent: A Novel of Jo van Gogh, She Writes Press, April 2025). We talk about what happened when a competing book about Jo from the prestigious Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam...
Oct 8, 202633 minThis week we welcome Meg Hamand to the podcast (Diamonds in Auschwitz, Greenleaf Publishing, March 2025). We discuss the books that kept her sane while writing about a horrific period in history while living through...
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336: Jill Amber Chafin - Author of Shaken
Oct 1, 202636 minOur podcast guest this week is Jill Amber Chafin (Shaken, Vine Leaves Press, March 2025). Hear how the inspiration for Jill's debut occurred in a doctor's office, how writing a book about a controversial (and dark)...
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Sep 25, 202632 minThis week our podcast guest is Tatiana Goded (A Trip Towards the Sunset, indie published, March 2025). Tatiana's debut follows 3 women facing mid-life challenges and dovetails with her own journey moving from Spain to...
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334: Raquel Y. Levitt - Author of The Seer
Sep 17, 202633 minOur podcast guest this week is Raquel Y. Levitt (The Seer, Acorn Publishing, March 2025). We discuss the originals of her debut which started as a single clear image she saw of a woman in a marketplace in the 1800's and...
Sep 10, 202634 minThis week our podcast guest is Angelika Morini (Do You See Me Now?, indie published, February 2025). Angelika, who lives and writes from Germany, discusses the challenges of querying publishing professionals from...
Sep 3, 202637 minOur podcast guest this week is Jen Sinclair (There's Always A Price, indie-published, September 2024). We talk about her early love of writing (her first book, a police procedural with a twist, was written in 8 th...
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331- Kim Gottlieb-Walker - Author of Lenswoman in Love - a Novel of the 1960's and '70's
Aug 27, 202638 minThis week our podcast guest is Kim Gottlieb-Walker (Lenswoman in Love – a Novel of the 1960's and '70's, indie published, February 2025). Kim shares the complete re-writes she did on her debut based on critique group...
Aug 20, 202640 minOur podcast guest this week is Barbara Burton (A Walk Down Rushville, Manuscripts Press, April 2024). Barbara, a lover of true crime series, has a unique publishing experience to share. She signed with her press before...
Aug 13, 202645 minT his Special Edition podcast features long-time WFWA member Julie Carrick Dalton (The Forest Becomes Her, St. Martin's Press, July 2026) who has just published her third book with a Big Five publisher with another one...
Aug 6, 202636 minThis week our guest is Lindsay Marie Morris ( The Last Letter from Sicily , Storm Publishing, January 2025). We discuss how actually going to your book's location beats online research, the difference between writing as...
Jul 30, 202636 minOur podcast guest this week is N. J. Mastro (Solitary Walker: A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft, Black Rose Writing, February 2025) Nancy's debut is an historical, biographical novel of the woman most people consider the...
Jul 23, 202636 minThis week's podcast guest is Lisa F. Rosenberg (Fine, I'm a Terrible Person, Sibylline Press, January 2025). What happens when you come across a character so juicy you want someone to write about them and the only...
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325: Evelyn Ann Casey - Author of Candlewood
Jul 17, 202637 minOur guest this week is Evelyn Ann Casey (Candlewood, Three Towers Press, February 2025). Evelyn's debut, set in the 1970's, is considered historical fiction and we commiserate about how old that makes us feel. Then we...
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324: Angela Douglas - Author of Every Fall
Jul 9, 202629 minThis week's podcast guest is Angela Douglas (Every Fall, indie published, January 2025). Initially published by Rising Action, Angela bought her rights back to her debut and is now releasing her second book as well, The...
Jul 2, 202638 minOur guest this week is Mary Hansen (The Traveling Archivist Eastern Oregon, Luminare Press, January 2025). We delve into the differences between a librarian and an archivist, how Mary thinks of archival research as a...
Jun 18, 202635 minThis week's guest is Wanda Penalver Bevan (The Rains of Wishton, The Book Reality Experience, February 2025). We discuss writing dual timelines, point of view, and what it's like to write a "story within a story". Wanda...
Jun 11, 202637 minOur guest this week is Lisa Montanaro (Everything We Thought Was True, Red Adept, January 2025). We discuss how Lisa taps into her background as an actress to "method act" her novels as she writes, including acting out...
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