Romance Writer's Therapy

Authors Marty Vee and Kate Prior

Two writer friends, Marty Vee and Kate Prior, catch up every couple of weeks, checking in on our personal lives, our writing goals, and where we are in our current novels. Marty and Kate can tangent with the best of them, often braiding several ideas together at once, so if you're lost listening, don't worry, we are too. It's a sneak-peak into the scattered processes and methods that go into storytelling and running a small business, two authors' foray into the world of self-publishing: covering book covers, marketing, newsletters, and just writing the damn book.

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Tuesday · 46 min
127: The Seeking Persephone Spoilers Show
This episode is literally just spoilers for the show Seeking Persephone. This is the longest on-topic we've ever been. Read Kate Prior's new-release, Be My Bad Guy, where the superhero's ex girlfriend falls for the supervillain's henchman after a kidnapping gone wrong. Marty Vee's newest book Remi and Alicia Can' Fall Again is out now! Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get Hazel and Elijah Don't Get Caught for free! You can find Kate on threads @bykateprior and Instagram @bykateprior and Marty on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor. Please subscribe and rate our podcast, it helps us reach new listeners!
July 28 · 45 min
126: Mounting Success (Consensually)
The Highlights: Marty's Neck Injury Scaffolding Plot Off Of Tropes She's Mounting Success The Challenge of I Don't Want to Do That Sexualized Hands Plummeting Literacy Rates Enables Fascism Don't Tell Kids They're Good At Math Read Kate Prior's new-release, Be My Bad Guy, where the superhero's ex girlfriend falls for the supervillain's henchman after a kidnapping gone wrong. Marty Vee's newest book Remi and Alicia Can' Fall Again is out now! Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get Hazel and Elijah Don't Get Caught for free! You can find Kate on threads @bykateprior and Instagram @bykateprior and Marty on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor. Please subscribe and rate our podcast, it helps us reach new listeners!
July 21 · 54 min
125: The Trouble with Tropes
The Highlights: Katertot Prior Life Happened the Most When Marty's Book Came Out All the Variables of a Book Release Thresholds for Giveaways Sometimes You Have to Just Call It Done The Fun of Dramatic Irony and A Savvy Reader Nancy Drew and the Second Amendment The Trouble with Tropes The Superpower of Identifying Patterns Read Kate Prior's new-release, Be My Bad Guy, where the superhero's ex girlfriend falls for the supervillain's henchman after a kidnapping gone wrong. Marty Vee's newest book Remi and Alicia Can' Fall Again is out now! Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get Hazel and Elijah Don't Get Caught for free! You can find Kate on threads @bykateprior and Instagram @bykateprior and Marty on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor. Please subscribe and rate our podcast, it helps us reach new listeners!
July 14 · 46 min
124: Kiss Cam First Chapter Attempt #3
The Highlights: SWEAT. TING. Giving Your Characters Pieces of Yourself One Difficult Chapter Marty's Miscommunication Trope Hattrick Make A Street Team Form Right Now The Ongoing, Neverending Battle with IngramSparks The Love Hypothesis Doesn't Have Its Own Legs Kiss Cam First Chapter Attempt #3 The Brother's Ex-Fiance Bind Read Kate Prior's new-release, Be My Bad Guy, where the superhero's ex girlfriend falls for the supervillain's henchman after a kidnapping gone wrong. Marty Vee's newest book Remi and Alicia Can' Fall Again is out now! Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get Hazel and Elijah Don't Get Caught for free! You can find Kate on threads @bykateprior and Instagram @bykateprior and Marty on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor. Please subscribe and rate our podcast, it helps us reach new listeners!
July 7 · 47 min
123: In Defense of the Makeover Trope
Now back to our, normal, scatter-brained programing. The Highlights: I Send Her So Many Bird Memes Wasting Time On the Thing I'm Good At It's So Hard to Do Blurbs Really Unimpressed with Billionaires Marty's Giving Herself a Lot of Challenges This Time Around You're Not Killing Enough Darlings In Defense of the Makeover Trope Read Kate Prior's new-release, Be My Bad Guy, where the superhero's ex girlfriend falls for the supervillain's henchman after a kidnapping gone wrong. Marty Vee's newest book Remi and Alicia Can' Fall Again is out now! Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get Hazel and Elijah Don't Get Caught for free! You can find Kate on threads @bykateprior and Instagram @bykateprior and Marty on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor. Please subscribe and rate our podcast, it helps us reach new listeners!
June 30 · 38 min
122: Marty Vee and A Bitter Suite Divide
Finishing out our series of interviews with the authors of the Hotel Bellwether novellas, Kate asks Marty Vee all the same questions. Surprisingly few mentions of ghosts this episode. The Highlights: Seems Like The Name Is Gonna Stay Notes Were Not Taken Pushing All the Buttons I Said Not To The Real Reason You Don't Meet Any Gene's Marty is Really Prepared for These Questions Only One Bed? No. Only One Wall The MightyDucks Miscommunication The Joys of Ensemble Casts Porn Without Plot Vs. No Foreplay Without Loreplay Listener, Just Do It Anyway Read Kate Prior's new-release, Be My Bad Guy, where the superhero's ex girlfriend falls for the supervillain's henchman after a kidnapping gone wrong. Marty Vee's newest book Remi and Alicia Can' Fall Again is out now! Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get Hazel and Elijah Don't Get Caught for free! You can find Kate on threads @bykateprior and Instagram @bykateprior and Marty on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor. Please subscribe and rate our podcast, it helps us reach new listeners!
June 23 · 58 min
121: Dani Mclean Can't Stay Away
Marty Vee interviews author Dani Mclean about her upcoming release, Can't Stay Away, #4 in the Hotel Bellwether series! The Highlights: This is How Kate Finds Out Courtney Clark Micheals and Marty are Having Phone Calls Without Her The Balancing Act of Time/Creativity/Life The Oppurtunity to Be Afraid Generational Pilfering Mindshift: Pretending to be Your Own Assistant Working through the Heartbreak Angsting Differently Than You've Already Angsted Dani Wouldn't Recommend Doing It Her Way Read Kate Prior's new-release, Be My Bad Guy, where the superhero's ex girlfriend falls for the supervillain's henchman after a kidnapping gone wrong. Marty Vee's newest book Remi and Alicia Can' Fall Again is out now! Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get Hazel and Elijah Don't Get Caught for free! You can find Kate on threads @bykateprior and Instagram @bykateprior and Marty on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor. Please subscribe and rate our podcast, it helps us reach new listeners!
June 16 · 39 min
120: MéLisa Ryun and No Room for Rivals
Marty Vee interviews husband-wife author duo MéLisa Ryun about their upcoming release, No Room for Rivals, #3 in the Hotel Bellwether series! The Highlights: Vacation Vibes at Hotel Bellwether Community Writing Expiriance The Husband-Wife Author Duo Dynamic Learning from Lost Chapters Best Joke Wins Warning: You Will Be Very Attached to Sea Lions After this Book Small Towns Make Big Imaginations Write What You Know, But Also Trust What You Know Read Kate Prior's new-release, Be My Bad Guy, where the superhero's ex girlfriend falls for the supervillain's henchman after a kidnapping gone wrong. Marty Vee's newest book Remi and Alicia Can' Fall Again is out now! Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get Hazel and Elijah Don't Get Caught for free! You can find Kate on threads @bykateprior and Instagram @bykateprior and Marty on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor. Please subscribe and rate our podcast, it helps us reach new listeners!
June 9 · 57 min
119: Cara Dion's Key Change and More Ghosts
Marty Vee interviews Cara Dion about her upcoming release, Key Change, #2 in the Hotel Bellwether series! The Highlights: Cara Dion's Grandparents' Haunted House 15 Minutes Straight of Ghost Stories and Astrology Marty Invents the Word "Squiffy" Key Change Opens with the Steam Fade to Black for Narrative Reasons The Dark Roads of the Pansters Marty Recommends "Atmosphere" with Utpmost Verve The Piece of Media that Inspires the Ending A Novella to Transition between Main Series Thinking Time is Writing Time Read Kate Prior's new-release, Be My Bad Guy, where the superhero's ex girlfriend falls for the supervillain's henchman after a kidnapping gone wrong. Marty Vee's newest book Remi and Alicia Can' Fall Again is out now! Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get Hazel and Elijah Don't Get Caught for free! You can find Kate on threads @bykateprior and Instagram @bykateprior and Marty on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor. Please subscribe and rate our podcast, it helps us reach new listeners!
June 2 · 53 min
118: Roxie Noir and the Sexy Attic Ghost Hunting in 'Room Serviced'
This week Marty chats with Roxie Noir about her upcoming release, ROOM SERVICED, which comes out friday! Here are the highlights: What Defines A Beach? Michigan's Upper Peninsula Is Not Up for Grabs, Wisconsin Michigan's Lobster Claw Flawless Segue into Roxie's New Release The Worst Genre, Self-Help Books About Technology Ghost Hunters Bet Single and Unencumbered, Would You Fuck A Ghost? The Trick Is to Not Get Sued By Disney A Body That Eats Short-Shorts for Breakfast Ozymandias Is Right, JSYK Roxie Doesn't Believe In No Ghosts What Do You Call the I-5 When You're Jerking Off A Sensual Mm-Hmm from Microsoft Word Make Your Writing Easier By Not Tying Yourself to Numbers Read Kate Prior's new-release, Be My Bad Guy, where the superhero's ex girlfriend falls for the supervillain's henchman after a kidnapping gone wrong. Marty Vee's newest book Remi and Alicia Can' Fall Again is out now! Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get Hazel and Elijah Don't Get Caught for free! You can find Kate on threads @bykateprior and Instagram @bykateprior and Marty on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor. Please subscribe and rate our podcast, it helps us reach new listeners!
May 25 · 47 min
117: New Season, Same Bitches
We're back! Settle in, Listener. The Highlights: Our Last Quarter Recap Mindset Shift to Marketing A Bit Woo-Woo from Time to Time A Non-Biased Man in Phoenix The Eternal Dance of Getting In Your Own Way The Enemy of Done Constantly Giving Her His Clothing Read Kate Prior's new-release, Be My Bad Guy, where the superhero's ex girlfriend falls for the supervillain's henchman after a kidnapping gone wrong. Marty Vee's newest book Remi and Alicia Can' Fall Again is out now! Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get Hazel and Elijah Don't Get Caught for free! You can find Kate on threads @bykateprior and Instagram @bykateprior and Marty on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor. Please subscribe and rate our podcast, it helps us reach new listeners!
Dec 30, 2025 · 50 min
116: The 2025 Closing Out
This is our season 5 finale! Thank you so much Listener for sticking with us through 2025's bumps and bruises, we'll see you after our hiatus next year! The Highlights: Wake Up, Listener!! Bookmark Hell Curse of Cricut Ownership You Can't Cry Over A Eugene People Love A Sparkle Wounds and Family Dynamics (a la 27 Dresses) Loosely Planning Our 2026's Do Yall Remember Stickergate More Planning 2026 Read Kate Prior's new-release, Be My Bad Guy, where the superhero's ex girlfriend falls for the supervillain's henchman after a kidnapping gone wrong. Marty Vee's newest book Remi and Alicia Can' Fall Again is out now! Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get Hazel and Elijah Don't Get Caught for free! You can find Kate on threads @bykateprior and Instagram @bykateprior and Marty on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor. Please subscribe and rate our podcast, it helps us reach new listeners!
Dec 23, 2025 · 42 min
115: Hindrance of Perfection Seeking
The Highlights: Magical Worldbuilding Blues Don't Ruin Your Brain Doing the Things That Haven't Been Getting Results What I Feel I Should Be Capable Of Letting It Consume You The Wisdom In Calluses The Algos They Are A-Changing Read Kate Prior's new-release, Be My Bad Guy, where the superhero's ex girlfriend falls for the supervillain's henchman after a kidnapping gone wrong. Marty Vee's newest book Remi and Alicia Can' Fall Again is out now! Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get Hazel and Elijah Don't Get Caught for free! You can find Kate on threads @bykateprior and Instagram @bykateprior and Marty on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor. Please subscribe and rate our podcast, it helps us reach new listeners!
Dec 16, 2025 · 39 min
114: MartyVeeAuthor@Gmail.com
The Highlights of this episode got eaten by Kate's computer restarting, so you're on your own with this one, Listener. Read Kate Prior's new-release, Be My Bad Guy, where the superhero's ex girlfriend falls for the supervillain's henchman after a kidnapping gone wrong. Marty Vee's newest book Remi and Alicia Can' Fall Again is out now! Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get Hazel and Elijah Don't Get Caught for free! You can find Kate on threads @bykateprior and Instagram @bykateprior and Marty on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor. Please subscribe and rate our podcast, it helps us reach new listeners!
Dec 9, 2025 · 41 min
113: The Subject That Has Been Everything
The Highlights: Kate's Written Logan's Breakup Scene Marty's Finished Writing Remi and Alicia! Putting Less Pressure On Release Date Reviews 6 Months of Following A Promo Plan Marty Stresses Kate Out with Her Launch Plan Your Pace Is Your Pace Kate's Oozey Arc Boxes I Have a Plan... Can It Be Pretty? Time is Hard to Come By, Sometimes Read Kate Prior's new-release, Be My Bad Guy, where the superhero's ex girlfriend falls for the supervillain's henchman after a kidnapping gone wrong. Marty Vee's newest book Remi and Alicia Can' Fall Again is out now! Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get Hazel and Elijah Don't Get Caught for free! You can find Kate on threads @bykateprior and Instagram @bykateprior and Marty on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor. Please subscribe and rate our podcast, it helps us reach new listeners!
Dec 2, 2025 · 50 min
112: We Know Our Patterns And Yet Cannot Escape Them
The Highlights: Disrespecto the Pesto Ten Years of Being Bad At French We Keep Coming Back to Kate's Fridge Thing Audible Sandwhich ASMR At 14:15 Minutes In Would Never Trust Myself to Love Again After What Happened To Remi and Alicia Honestly Marty Reads Kate's Social Security Number On Air No More Slowburns EVER Marty's Handwritten Book Microtrope: Mistaken Identity Via Bad Names I Swear I've Written This Sentence Before The Bone My Brain Needs to Chew On Read Kate Prior's new-release, Be My Bad Guy, where the superhero's ex girlfriend falls for the supervillain's henchman after a kidnapping gone wrong. Marty Vee's newest book Remi and Alicia Can' Fall Again is out now! Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get Hazel and Elijah Don't Get Caught for free! You can find Kate on threads @bykateprior and Instagram @bykateprior and Marty on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor. Please subscribe and rate our podcast, it helps us reach new listeners!
Nov 25, 2025 · 46 min
111: 20 Minute YouTube Compilation of Kissing Scenes
The Highlights: Consensually Cuffed to the Table Intellecting About Kissing Scenes Not In A Weird Way, In a Hot Way Kate Won't Let Go of the Bad Pencil Skirt Running Out of Steam By The End of The Book Plot Sustaining Endings Switching Gears Carrying All Your Mistakes Slowest of the Slow Burns A More Gesture-y Grand Gesture Fucking Tired of These Guys (Said With Love) Goals, But No Way To Track Them These Two Get Painfully Gooey A Load-Bearing Breath Read Kate Prior's new-release, Be My Bad Guy, where the superhero's ex girlfriend falls for the supervillain's henchman after a kidnapping gone wrong. Marty Vee's newest book Remi and Alicia Can' Fall Again is out now! Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get Hazel and Elijah Don't Get Caught for free! You can find Kate on threads @bykateprior and Instagram @bykateprior and Marty on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor. Please subscribe and rate our podcast, it helps us reach new listeners!
Nov 18, 2025 · 1 hr 21 min
110: Cheap Smut Crossover Episode
Today's episode we have Katie from from the Cheap Smut podcast joining us, lending us her perspective on the many bookish world topics and tangents we roam through. If you want more of Katie, check out Cheap Smut, Katie and Max's amazing, bantery podcast about the wild and wonderous stories and ideas you can find in romance and erotica. https://linktr.ee/cheapsmut Read Kate Prior's new-release, Be My Bad Guy, where the superhero's ex girlfriend falls for the supervillain's henchman after a kidnapping gone wrong. Marty Vee's newest book Remi and Alicia Can' Fall Again is out now! Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get Hazel and Elijah Don't Get Caught for free! You can find Kate on threads @bykateprior and Instagram @bykateprior and Marty on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor. Please subscribe and rate our podcast, it helps us reach new listeners!
Nov 11, 2025 · 59 min
REPOST: Are You Happy About the Stress You Have?
Kate has been working hard on our next episode of this season, but the silly file is causing her trouble. So, enjoy this repost, and know that we'll have a conversation with Katie of Cheap Smut Podcast just as soon as we can! This episode, Marty and Kate talk about: The Outside Is Attacking Us (Allergies) Marty Isn't DNFing Out of Spite Marty F's Around with Prequels and Finds Out She Should Write More Sideboob Logistics Kate and Marty Are Really Having An Easy Time Writing Books for Once and Are Really Confused About It Marty Sets Some Really Wild Challenges for Herself Surprising No One, Marty is an Extrovert, Kate is an Introvert Making Friends Or Writing Books Reflecting On Ways Our Lives Have Changed Over The Last Couple Years 24 Minutes in We Get to the Point of the Episode Defining Success Outside of Captialism Nail Break Also You Can't Really Remove Capitalism from the Equation, Yet If You Really Knew What Your Dream Entailed, Would You Still Want It? Put Pressure On Yourself Like Everyone's Watching, Even If They Aren't Don't Love It When Things Happen to Me Leaving in the Ice Noises Specifically For You Film Degrees Are Pretty Useless Preorder Marty Vee's upcoming release Remi and Alicia Can't Fall Again and read what she's been angsting over for MONTHS/YEARS! Order Kate Prior's new-release, Mated to My Ex! (Divorced fated mates, werewolves, knotting, all the good stuff.) Marty Vee's newest book Hazel and Elijah Find Out is now available. Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get Entirely Yours for free! You can find Kate on threads @bykateprior and Instagram @bykateprior and Marty on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor. This Episode is brought to you by SimplySpellBoundEdits (Heather the Editor (Heathitor)). Please subscribe and rate our podcast, it helps us reach new listeners! Read Kate Prior's new-release, Be My Bad Guy, where the superhero's ex girlfriend falls for the supervillain's henchman after a kidnapping gone wrong. Marty Vee's newest book Remi and Alicia Can' Fall Again is out now! Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get Hazel and Elijah Don't Get Caught for free! You can find Kate on threads @bykateprior and Instagram @bykateprior and Marty on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor. Please subscribe and rate our podcast, it helps us reach new listeners!
Nov 4, 2025 · 44 min
109: 40,000 Words Before A Single Kiss
The Highlights Take One Was Just Primal Screaming For A Bit The Problem With Looking Back At Where You Were Marty's Had A Year Pondering On Setbacks Reminding Yourself Of The Marathon What Is the Next Thing That's Going to Make Me Happy, In This Process? Kate Hasn't Forgotten That One File She Lost 10 Years ago Edits Lost to the Ether Some Chapters Have to Get Worked On Read Kate Prior's new-release, Be My Bad Guy, where the superhero's ex girlfriend falls for the supervillain's henchman after a kidnapping gone wrong. Marty Vee's newest book Remi and Alicia Can' Fall Again is out now! Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get Hazel and Elijah Don't Get Caught for free! You can find Kate on threads @bykateprior and Instagram @bykateprior and Marty on TikTok @martyveeauthor and Instagram @martyveeauthor and Twitter @martyveeauthor. Please subscribe and rate our podcast, it helps us reach new listeners!