Writers With Wrinkles

Beth McMullen, Lisa Schmid

Booking Overview

An interview-led writing and publishing show focused on craft, author careers, book marketing, and the traditional, hybrid, and self-publishing industries, with recurring interviews featuring editors and published or bestselling authors. PR agencies could credibly pitch published authors, editors, literary agents, publishers, and specialists in author marketing or publishing economics; booking difficulty is medium because guests generally need meaningful industry credentials or a notable publishing track record.

Metrics

Episodes: 170

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

Instagram: 2.1k followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

beth@bethmcmullenbooks.com

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Host

Beth McMullen - Author and co-host covering writing craft, publishing, author platforms, and book marketing.

Lisa Schmid - Author and co-host covering writing craft, publishing, author platforms, and book marketing.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium

Typical Credentials:

Published authors, bestselling authors, developmental editors, literary agents, publishers, and established professionals with specialized expertise in writing, publishing, author marketing, or book finances.

Required Achievements:

Published books, Bestseller recognition, Editorial or literary-agent experience, Publishing-industry expertise, Professional credentials in writing or publishing

Recent Guest Discussions

Joel Brigham - First-page Mistakes, Tension, Suspense, Mystery, Unfairness, Prologues, Information Dumps, And Inciting Incidents.

Wendelin Van Draanen - Long-term Publishing Careers, Rejection, Editor Relationships, Film Options, Book Launches, And Her New Romantasy Novel Ghosted.

Jason June - Book Advances, Royalties, Publishing Uncertainty, Self-publishing, Hybrid Careers, Acting, Author Finances, And Upcoming Fiction.

Lisa Frenkel Riddiough - Losing A Literary Agent, Re-entering The Query Process, Picture-book Pitches, Query Letters, And Career Resilience.

Recent Topics

Publishing, Writing, Book Marketing, Self Publishing, Literary Agents

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Writers With Wrinkles

An Acquiring Editor Reveals What She's Buying Right Now

August 31, 2026

Most rejected picture book and middle grade manuscripts aren't turned down because they're bad — they're turned down because an editor has already seen five just like them. Susan Marston, the new editorial director of Albatros Books' US expansion (and former 25-year editorial director of the Junior Library Guild), joins us to lay out exactly what's landing on her acquisitions list right now — and what's already been done to death.We talk about why Albatros — the ...

AI Stole Our Books. Now We're the Suspects

August 26, 2026

AI companies are shredding rare books to train their models—and now authors are the ones being told to prove they didn't use AI to write their own. Beth and Lisa unpack the double standard rocking publishing right now.From a debut novelist's multi million dollar book deal getting pulled over AI suspicion, to writers being told to reinsert typos and kill their em dashes just to "prove" they're human, the burden of proof has landed on exactly the wrong people. Beth and ...

The 4 First-Page Mistakes That Get You Rejected Fast, with editor Joel Brigham

August 17, 2026

Your opening pages have about 30 seconds to keep a literary agent reading — and most manuscripts lose that fight before the first paragraph ends.Developmental editor Joel Brigham returns to unpack exactly what makes an agent stop reading (and what makes them keep going): the four ingredients — tension, suspense, mystery, and unfairness — that hook a reader in the first few pages. He breaks down why agents almost universally reject prologues, the two-highlighter trick for catching your own inf...

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