The Career Author Podcast is a podcast where co-authors J. Thorn and Zach Bohannon share their struggles and successes as full-time authors, advice for improving your writing craft, and honest discussions of what it takes to build a successful career as an author. SPECIAL BONUS EPISODE! Get our analysis of the pilot episode from Breaking[…]

The Career Author Podcast is a podcast where co-authors J. Thorn and Zach Bohannon share their struggles and successes as full-time authors, advice for improving your writing craft, and honest discussions of what it takes to build a successful career as an author. We’ve put it off long enough. Let’s finally talk about procrastination as[…]

Zach and J. provide an update from episodes 48 and 56 where they had high hopes for an experiment to tap reader engagement. They’re not so enthusiastic about the results. You will discover exactly how badly their experiment failed and more: J.’s experience at ThrillerFest and the continued stigma surrounding independent publishing Zach’s close call[…]

Choosing how you tell a story can be confusing. With help from the Fussy Librarian, Zach and J. explore how to determine the best point of view for your work. You will discover the importance of strong narration and more: Zach’s favorite app for keeping track of everything he needs to do + some of[…]

Collaboration doesn’t always smell like roses. Listen to this candid conversation about the potential problems of cowriting, how Zach and J. cope with these problems in their own business, and more: Recent events in the video game industry and what authors can learn from them Some changes happening over at the Patreon + what novelists[…]