Secrets from the Green Room
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.
Secrets from the Green Room
Latest Episodes
Season 7: Episode 82: Robbie Coburn (Poet)
Irma and Karen answer a listener question about the transition from emerging writer to established, then chat about their latest reading recommendations.Then Karen talks to poet Robbie Coburn about how discovering Edgar Allan Poe when he...
Season 7: Episode 81: Ingrid Laguna
Karen and Irma chat about the environmental cost of publishing books, and uncover some positive take-aways. Then Irma talks to children’s author Ingrid Laguna about how running away from home impacted her as a creative, how the trau...
Season 7: Episode 80: Toni Jordan
Irma and Karen talk about how different platforms – Instagram, Facebook, X, Substack and author websites – help sell books (or don’t!)Then Karen chats to Toni Jordan about how to successfully inject serious subjects with humour, the book...
Season 7: Episode 79: Tasma Walton
Karen and Irma talk about the importance of writers centres, and urge listeners to sign the Writers Victoria petition.Then Irma chats to Tasma Walton about novelising the story of her ancestor Nannertgarrook, how she protected herself in...
Season 7: Episode 78: Fleur McDonald
Karen and Irma debate whether AI is useful to break writer’s block.Then they both chat to Fleur McDonald about pioneering the way in rural crime writing, how she built her profile over the years and then rebranded, connecting emotionally...
