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Paper Trail

The Paper Trail Podcast

A monthly writing and publishing podcast featuring a rotating roundtable of children's book authors.

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35 episodes

  1. Episode 35: Right Idea, Wrong Time 1:04:00
  2. Episode 34: Publishing's AI Hypocrisy 54:34
  3. Episode 33: How Pet Projects Can Stave Off Burnout (And Why The Bridge to Terabithia Doesn't Exactly Hold Up) 1:11:16
  4. Episode 32: What Publishing and Your Toxic Ex-boyfriend Have in Common 1:09:52
  5. Episode 31: How to Be a Good Literary Citizen (and no, it's not by calling your colleagues' books "crud") 1:04:08
  6. Episode 30: We're Not Meant to Labor Like This 1:07:03
  7. Episode 29: Are We There Yet? (Or What Does it Mean to Truly Make it in Publishing) 58:29
  8. Episode 28: On Becoming Less Ambitious (and Remembering to Touch Grass) 1:10:42
  9. Episode 27: The Dreaded Demotion and the Power of Not Yet 59:18
  10. Episode 26: Creative Resets (and Say Hello to Your Season 3 Round Table!) 58:38
  11. Episode 25: Nothing is Selling (or What Happened to the Tastemakers?) 1:02:44
  12. Episode 24: Can Publishing Survive Fascism? 48:34
  13. Episode 23: How to Be a Publishing Anti with Sami Ellis 39:32
  14. Episode 22: What Ever Happened to So-and-So? Or Publishing is a Game of Survivor​ (A Kidlit Happy Hour Crossover Episode) with Joanna Ho and Caroline Kusin Pritchard 1:09:44
  15. Episode 21: Publishing is Not a Meritocracy (And Book Clubs Will Save Us All) with Alexandra Villasante 50:02
  16. Episode 20: Publishing is a Mountain Range with Jonny Garza Villa and Aaron H. Aceves 1:04:39
  17. Episode 19: Meta Better Have My Money (An Of The Publishing Persuasion Crossover Episode) with Angela Montoya and Melanie Schubert 1:11:03
  18. Episode 18: Pre-Nazi Germany But with Smart Phones with Vincent Tirado 58:00
  19. Episode 17: Hollywood is Another Planet with Laura Taylor Namey 1:04:06
  20. Episode 16: The Post-debut Blues with Jill Tew 59:20
  21. Episode 15: American Dirt Part Deux 1:03:31
  22. Episode 14: Children's Publishing is a White Woman's Game with Dhonielle Clayton 1:09:49
  23. Episode 13: Is All Writing Political? 1:01:38
  24. Episode 12: The Death of DEI in Publishing 1:06:58
  25. Episode 11 1:02:32
  26. Episode 10 59:10
  27. Episode 9 1:12:17
  28. Episode 8 58:33
  29. Episode 7 1:00:57
  30. Episode 6 1:06:27
  31. Episode 5 59:37
  32. Episode 4 1:02:30
  33. Episode 3 56:53
  34. Episode 2 53:11
  35. Episode 1 59:52