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 84: Festival Directors - Corrie Perkin and Veronica Sullivan
Karen and Irma chat about how to decide on the POV(s) for a novel, and how to listen to what the book itself wants to be.Then Irma talks to Melbourne Writers Festival Director Veronica Sullivan and Sorrento Writers Festival Director Corr...
Season 7: Episode 83: Debut authors – Lisa Moule and Dominic Amerena
Karen and Irma chat about structuring a novel, in particular the use of prologues and epilogues.Then in the first of an occasional series with debut authors, Irma talks to Dominic Amerena and Lisa Moule about the challenging process of w...
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...
