Orange Ink

Laura Bell (@littleLo) chats about her Ashwood series and revisits the writing of A Simple Deception—a historical romance that totally made me cry. 

If you listen close enough, you can hear my necklaces clank as I press my hand to my heart with all the feels. Literally clutching my pearls over here. :)

Topics include the troubles of historical fiction. Slavery in the 1800s and today. Freedom. The vulnerability of writing. A romance writer’s high standards. Fighting against a whitewashed genre. The vulnerability of writing.  Dating apps. Justice in fiction.

LittleLo's Ashwood Series:

• Book 1: A Solemn Promise
  
  
• Book 2: An Earnest Favour
  
  
• Book 3: A Simple Deception

And a Wattpad shout out to @Kassilassie for her killer western historical fiction on Wattpad and all the other writers spinning the stories we want far better than we ever could. 

This is the last episode of this season! I hope to be back in September and if you’d like to hear from someone in particular, email me at orangeinkpodcast@gmail.com.

If you have a sec, here’s a brief feedback questionnaire on this season. Let me know any and all thoughts. Like, how was your breakfast? Have any pets? Lol ;)

Melissa Mitchell (Wattpad: @addicted2dragons) chats about her beloved Dragonwall series--one of my all-time Wattpad favs. Divided into two parts.

Topics include: Wattpad success in real-time. Plotting vs pantsing. Dragons! Destiny. Productivity. Writer-life balance. Multiple POVs (11 in one book!?). And a few tears shed on why we read and, consequently, why we write. <3

Wattpad Reading Recommendations :D

Whispers of Nowhere by @RebelDynasty

and Lair of Beasts by @JeanineCroft

If any of my links are off, let me know! ‘:)


Email me with any comments or thoughts (or a writer you’d like to hear from!!) at orangeinkpodcast@gmail.com.

Hope to hear from you! >.< xx

Other mentioned resources:

• Take Off Your Pants! by Libbie Hawker
• Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffery
• Eragon by Christopher Paolini

Melissa Mitchell (Wattpad: @addicted2dragons) chats about her beloved Dragonwall series--one of my all-time Wattpad favs. Divided into two episodes.

Topics include: Wattpad success in real-time. Plotting vs pantsing. Dragons! Destiny. Productivity. Writer-life balance. Multiple POVs (11 in one book!?). And a few tears shed on why we read and, consequently, why we write. <3

Wattpad Reading Recommendations :D

Whispers of Nowhere by @RebelDynasty

and Lair of Beasts by @JeanineCroft

If any of my links are off, let me know! ‘:)


Email me with any comments or thoughts (or a writer you’d like to hear from!!) at orangeinkpodcast@gmail.com.

Hope to hear from you! >.< xx

Other mentioned resources:

• Take Off Your Pants! by Libbie Hawker
• Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffery
• Eragon by Christopher Paolini

Gina Anderson-Lopez (Wattpad: @Red_Harvey) shares her speculative fiction, cyberpunk novel  Daughter of Zeus. 

Topics include: The purpose of sci-fi. Cyberpunk tech research. Violence and revenge. Moral ambiguity. Mixed character archs. Free-will and morality. Our hopeless (hopefully not so hopeless) future, explored through art. Power without empathy. And plenty of book recc  swapping. hahaha

Wattpad Reading Recommendations :D

After the Fall by @LLSanders

and The Water Witcher by @VanCarley

If any my links are off, let me know! ‘:)


Email me with any comments or thoughts (or a writer you’d like to hear from!!) at orangeinkpodcast@gmail.com.

Hope to hear from you! >.< xx


Other mentioned resources:

• @amberkbryant on Wattpad
• Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy
• The Hidden Legacy Series by Ilona Andrews
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• Big Driver by Stephen King
• Clockwork Orange - the film
• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
• The Boys - Amazon Show
• The Dark Fantastic by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas

Also does anyone use the chapter markers in these things?

This is a bonus episode! You can listen to the first half of my convo with Brianna here.

Where we take a closer look again the characters of All Over Again, exploring what it really means to love someone, the difference between helping and fixing, different types of toxicity and how love helps us be more ourselves. It gets real psych-y. In the best possible way. ;)

Give Brianna some love on her Wattpad and Instagram. Let her know how brilliant she is.

Have any experience with toxic traits in yourself or others? What does writing help you process? Want to sign a petition to keep Raffo with Ruth? Email me at orangeinkpodcast@gmail.com. I’d love to hear from you. <3

Next podcast will be on May 25th as I catch up from travels. See you soon!

Brianna (Wattpad: @XxBriannaMariexX) spills the tea on her contemporary, Afro-Indigenous romance All Over Again. 

Topics include: Memoir as processing. Romance with grey endings. Afro-Indigenous representation (or the lack thereof).  The financial risk of writing. Concentric circles of minority. Grief and break-ups. And what childhood fanfics we hide in our Wattpad drafts. ;)

Wattpad Reading Recommendations :D

How (Not) To Date a Popstar by @letmelivetonight

Constellations of You and Me by @Yehree

And Comfort the Wolves by @kcgalloway (AKA: me! >.<)

If any my links are off, let me know! ‘:)
I apologise for any sound inconsistencies. We’re learning!

Stay tuned next week for a bonus episode!
Where we dissect the plot and characters of All Over Again to evaluate their romance in terms of health. (Read: two psychology buffs riffing on the complexity and dangers of toxicity in relationships lol). 

Have you struggled with representation as a writer or reader? 
What have you processed through writing? 

Email me with any comments or thoughts (or a writer you’d like to hear from!!) at orangeinkpodcast@gmail.com. 

Hope to hear from you! >.< xx

AJ Arnault (Wattpad: @ajArnault) and I chat about her paranormal romance Never Kiss a Vampire.

Topics include mood writing and hard female rock. Plotting when you can’t plot ahead. Sex as power; love as vulnerability. Watty disappointments. Redefining self in the wake of a broken family. Imposter syndrome. Courage. Who we write to and why.

Wattpad Reading Recommendations :D

Wolf & Witch by @HicksScribbles

And Snowcrossed by @DLynnP

If any my links are off, let me know! ‘:)

Also take a minute to look at the Wattpad profile @BootcampMentors as you prep for the Wattys! Since this interview, I have signed up myself! Maybe I'll be your mentor. ::queue my greatest fear-me smile::

Email me with any comments or thoughts (or a writer you’d like to hear from!!) at orangeinkpodcast@gmail.com. 

Subtitled: Prepare Yourself for Emotional Pain and Emotional Payoff with Stef

Stef (Wattpad: @Wimbug) and I chat about her Beauty and the Beast retelling Hearts of Stone and her seven-book series The Jewel Project.

Topics include her penchant for on-screen character deaths. The unjust decline of adventure novels. The meh of writing paranormal. Types of toxic relationships. And the dangers of Stockholm syndrome in Beauty and the Beast retellings (+ how to avoid them??).

Wattpad Reading Recommendations :D

Dragon Scale by @Cross-Warrior

And Siren Song by @UnboundWings

If any of my links are off, let me know! ':)



Two final confessions, I have since been inspired to face the terror that is my Wattpad bio. Read it here. :)

And, secondly, yes. I have finally caved and ordered a boom arm. Mic rattles should decrease significantly around episode 6... ;)


Email me with any questions or comments at orangeinkpodcast@gmail.com. 

Join me with Caroline Richardson (Wattpad: @mustangsabby) as we chat about The West Brother Series and Out of His League.   

Topics include her Wattpad journey. Writing/life balance. Western romance. Toxic Masculinity. Healthy sexuality and a writer’s responsibility. Female empowerment. And some killer reading recommendations. :)

Preorder Out of His League, coming April 5th! Whoop, whoop!
Read The West Brother Series.

Wattpad Reading Recommendations 

By @JoWatson_101

• Burning Moon
• Big Boned (published in Oct '21)

By @TamaraLush

• The Paradise Beach Series
• The Awakening
• Drive (published March '22)
• Her cosy mysteries under Tara Lush

By @AveryKeelan

• Off Side
• Otherwise Engaged (published Dec '21)

If any of my links are off, feel free to let me know! ':)
Email me with any questions or comments at orangeinkpodcast@gmail.com. 

Why I feel we need this podcast (read: why I need this podcast lol) and a few disclaimers. :)

Email me at orangeinkpodcast@gmail.com
Find me on Wattpad @kcgalloway and Instagram @kariscgalloway

Can't wait to see where this goes!!