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Each week join the SPA Girls for a fun podcast with information, tips and honest advice on self publishing for authors. Hosted by four experienced self-publishing writers, we provide a mix of interviews, craft shows, and marketing information that will help you start your self-publishing journey. Join us today!

May 29, 2019

If you're a writer who hates to outline, you'll love this week's podcast!

We talk to Patricia McLinn, a mystery and romance author who is also a pantser who writes out of sequence. She's here to tell you that it doesn't matter how you write it, as long as it comes together in the end! 

Patricia worked at the Washington...


May 22, 2019

Morgana Best is the best-selling author of over 40 Cozy Mysteries, and she joins us in the SPA to tell us everything she knows about writing Cozies. 

From word counts to reader expectations, and even her writing process - which involves using Dragon Dictate, and is totally fascinating - Morgana gives us insider...


May 15, 2019

Want to figure out how to create the perfect crime for your cozy mystery character to solve? 

Or find out how your investigator protagonist would investigate a murder? 

Perhaps you just want to find out what investigators look for at a crime scene so you can figure out what to plant at your fictitious scene? 

Well, your...


May 8, 2019

Have you ever wondered whether your character would survive holding highly enriched uranium metal in their hand?

What about if they'd handled that green goo from the barrel marked with a radiation symbol? 

That's the kind of knowledge that you'll get from listening to this episode of the SPA Girls Podcast. We talk to...


May 1, 2019

It's the start of Mystery May, and we have a doozy to start you off with!

The SPA Girls spent time with Adam Richardson, an American cop who helps authors and screenwriters with their crime-fiction questions through his website and podcast called the Writer's Detective Bureau.

He knows his stuff - Adam spent...