Secrets from the Green Room

Irma Gold & Karen Viggers•secretsfromthegreenroom.com

In each episode of the Secrets from the Green Room podcast hosts Irma Gold and Karen Viggers chat with a writer about their experience of the writing and publishing process in honest green room-style, uncovering some of the plain and simple truths, as well as some of the secrets – whether they be mundane or salubrious – and having a lot of fun in the process.

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Season 1. Episode 2: Holden Sheppard

Irma and Craig chat about the manuscripts that never make it to publication. Then Holden Sheppard chats with Irma about writing failures and the drive to succeed, the publicity whirlwind and inevitable comedown, self-doubt and second-novel syndrome, being snubbed by literary big shots in the green room and world domination goals! About Holden Holden Sheppard’s debut novel, Invisible Boys , won the Hungerford Award which led to publication and more awards, including the West Australian Premier’s ...

Dec 08, 2020•42 min•Season 1Ep. 2

Season 1. Episode 1: Anna Spargo-Ryan

Craig and Irma chat about why they’ve launched the podcast, the history of the green room and their own green room experiences. Then Anna Spargo-Ryan chats with Irma about how she grew up with her own publishing house (sort of!), the manuscripts that never made it to publication, how she accidentally pitched a book on Twitter that led to a heated auction, what said heated auction involved (hint: a lot of emotional paralysis on the couch), the worst rejection of her writing life and a whole lot m...

Nov 14, 2020•57 min•Season 1Ep. 1

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