Words and Nerds: Authors, books and literature.
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Words and Nerds: Authors, books and literature.
Words and Nerds Podcast is an entertaining and conversational podcast that aims to get inside a writer's mind. We discuss books, the social and political influences of a writer's work and how literature has the power to change the world. The podcast digs deep to bring you an in depth and sometimes...
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S4, E8, Part 2 - Date with a Debut - The future for debut authors with Nick Wasliev and Claudine Tinellis from Talking Aussie Books
Date with a Debut is a podcast hosted by writer Nick Wasiliev: shining a light on debut authors, their incredible books, and their journeys to publica...
815. Dani Vee and Anna Poletti - Hello World and topics people often avoid talking about
Episode 815 - Dani Vee and Anna Poletti chat about Hello World?
This episode contains adult content.
We chat about the topic...
Date With a Debut S4 E8, Part 1 - Nick Wasiliev and Claudine Tinellis from Talking Aussie Books
Date with a Debut is a podcast hosted by writer Nick Wasiliev: shining a light on debut authors, their incredible books, and their journeys to publica...
814. Dani Vee and Shivaun Plozza - Running In Circles, climate change and extraterrestrials
Dear Bookish Community,
In this episode I chat to Shivaun and I chat about her unique and wonderful middle grade novel Running in Circle...
S5E4 QWS Troy Hunter and Dennis Altman - activist, academic and author
QWS S5E4 Dennis Altman and Troy Hunter
TEXT 🎙️ New QWS Podcast Episode! 🌈✨
In QWS S5E4, Troy chats with the legendary ac...
813. Dani Vee and Adrian Beck - Nowhere House and engaging kids in reading
⭐️ EPISODE 813 - Dani Vee and Adrian ‘Danger’ Beck - Jam packed with fun, books and random conversations about all things writing
Dear k...
812. Dani Vee and Cheryl Akle - What Are You Reading? Essential listening for book lovers
Dear book lovers,
If you love books, this is the episode for you! Cheryl Akle has worked in the book industry for over 40 years in variou...
811. Dani Vee and Michaela Bolzan - Southern Highlands Writers' Festival
⭐️ Episode 811 - Dani Vee and Michaela Bolzan chat about this year’s SouthernHighlands Writers Festival, the importance of writing communities and wh...
810. Dani Vee and Dr Kerry Jewel - A Little Unwell and the intersection between science and art
Dani Vee and Dr Kerry Jewell - A Little Unwell and the intersection between science and art,
Dear The Pitt obsessed listeners,
809. Dani Vee and Emily-Gale - The Wild Unknown and shifts in publishing
⭐️ Episode 809 - Dani Vee and Emily Gale - The Wild Unknown 2045
Dear gentle listeners,
In this episode I chat to Emily Gal...
Date With a Debut BONUS Second Date - Nick Wasiliev, Bride Blake and Amanda Hewitt
Date with a Debut is a podcast hosted by writer Nick Wasiliev: shining a light on debut authors, their incredible books, and their journeys to publica...
808. Dani Vee, Ingrid Laguna and Dan Thomas - Children's books and creative relationships
Episode 808 - Dani Vee, Ingrid Laguna and Dan Thomas - Children’s books, writing, feedback and the challenges of being in a creative relationship
S4 E7 - Date with a Debut - Nick Wasiliev and Melissa Sharman - The Beauty of Broken Things
Date with a Debut is a podcast hosted by writer Nick Wasiliev: shining a light on debut authors, their incredible books, and their journeys to publica...
807. Dani Vee and Gabbie Stroud - The Angry Wives Club and why women should be mad as hell
EPISODE 806 - Dani Vee and Gabbie Stroud
Dear gorgeous listeners,
In this episode I speak to the wonderful Gabbie Stroud ab...
806. Dani Vee and Mary Anastasiou - Production, Publishing and Promotion - Part 1 Long Weekend Special
EPISODE 806 ⭐️ Part 1 ⭐️
Dear beloved creatives,
In Part 1 of this bonus long weekend episode, Dani Vee and Mary Anastasi...
S4, E6 - Date with a Debut - Nick Wasiliev and Emily Lighezzolo - Life Drawing
Date with a Debut is a podcast hosted by writer Nick Wasiliev: shining a light on debut authors, their incredible books, and their journeys to publica...
805. Dani Vee and Seetha Dodd - inclusivity and Myra in the Middle
Dani Vee chats to Seetha Dodd about inclusivity, finding yourself, being a middle child and her new novel Myra in the Middle published by UQP.
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S4 E5 - Date With a Debut - Nick Wasiliev and Leearna Shaw - A Farm in Golden Clouds
Date with a Debut is a podcast hosted by writer Nick Wasiliev: shining a light on debut authors, their incredible books, and their journeys to publica...
804. Dani Vee and Annie Drum - Writing YA novels
Dani Vee chats to Annie Drum, writer of short fiction and poetry. They talk about her heartfelt coming of age novel, Don’t Forget to Remember Me publi...
QWS S5E3 Troy Hunter and Dylin Hardcastle - A LANGUAGE OF LIMBS: a lyric, gorgeous, dark, funny, queer, horny, lovely, wonderful book about love.
QWS S5E3 Dylin Hardcastle and Troy Hunter
In QWS S5E3, Troy chats with Dylin Hardcastle about their super successful, award-winning nove...
803. Dani Vee and Tristan Bancks - How to write a bestselling suspense thriller, Raised By Wolves and horror films
In Episode #803 Dani Vee and bestselling author Tristan Bancks have an epic chat about his brand new suspense thriller Raised By Wolves, a follow up t...
802. Dani Vee and Jacinta Daniher and Taylor Hampton - My Dreamtime Match
Dani Vee chats to author duo Jacinta Daniher and Taylor Hampton about their new picture book My Dreamtime Match.
The talk about why this...
S4, E4 - Date With a Debut - Nick Wasiliev and Katie Hoskins - When the Party's Over
Date with a Debut is a podcast hosted by writer Nick Wasiliev: shining a light on debut authors, their incredible books, and their journeys to publica...
801. Dani Vee and Dervla McTiernan - Three Reasons for Revenge and the best writing advice ever
Dani Vee and bestselling author Dermal McTeirnan chat about her new book Three Reasons for Revenge.
They chat about horror films causing...
S4E3- Date with a Debut - Nick Wasiliev and Amanda Hewitt - The Last Resort
Date with a Debut is a podcast hosted by writer Nick Wasiliev: shining a light on debut authors, their incredible books, and their journeys to publica...
800. Celebrating a milestone with Dani, Adrian, Tristan and Cristy
Celebrate the 800 episode milestone with Dani Vee, Adrian Beck, Tristan Bancks and Cristy Burne.
The gang kick off by chatting about Cris...
799. Dani Vee and Karen Comer - Once Upon Tomorrow, feminism and speculative fiction
Dani Vee and Karen Comer chat about her new YA verse novel Once Upon Tomorrow.
They chat about the complexity of writing three separate s...
S4E2 Date with a Debut - Nick Wasiliev and Bridie Blake - The Boyfriend Clause
Date with a Debut is a podcast hosted by writer Nick Wasiliev: shining a light on debut authors, their incredible books, and their journeys to publica...
798. Dani Vee and Melissa Manning - Frogsong and why multi-tasking is bad for us
Dani Vee and Melissa Manning chat about her new book Frogsong published by UQP and how Melissa captures the sensual aching years of young life along w...
S4E1 Date with a Debut Newcastle Writers Festival Alejandra Martinez, Sam Elliott and Emma Pei Yin
Date with a Debut - S4, E1 - Live at the 2026 Newcastle Writers Festival with Nick Wasiliev, Alejandra Martinez, Sam Elliott and Emma Pei Yin
797. Dani Vee and Mohammed Massoud Morsi - The Hair of the Pigeon, humanity and pathways to publishing
Dani Vee and Mohammed Massoud Morsi chat about his new novel The Hair of the Pigeon, the importance of humanity in dark times and interesting pathways...
796. Dani Vee and Helena Pantsis - Mother Salad and the female experience
New Episode #796
Dani Vee and Helena Pantsis discuss her unique and dark collection of short stories Mother Salad.
They talk...
795. Dani Vee and Frances Whiting - Nostalgia and The Nocturnals
Dani Vee and Frances Whiting , a senior feature writer and award winning journalism chat about the brilliant The Nocturnals.
They chat ab...
794. Dani Vee and Zoe Gaetjens - Drawing Nudes, Writing Process, Path to publication
🩷 NEW EPISODE 🩷
Catch this brand new episode with Dani Vee and Zoe Gaetjens, not her first time on the Words and Nerds podcast (she was...
793. Dani Vee and Louise Milligan - Multi-generational women, feminism and Shellybanks.
Dani Vee and award winning investigative journalist Louise Milligan chat about her new book Shellybanks. A novel about buried secrets and unimaginable...
792. Dani Vee and Jayne McIntyre - The Feathers of Farwood and fantasy
Meet Jayne McIntyre, debut author of the trilogy The Feathers of Farwood, published by Riveted Press.
In this episode we chat about:
791. Dani Vee and Ian Kemish - Two Islands and finding goodness in characters
Dani Vee and Ian Kemish chat about Two Islands, balancing fiction and non-fiction and finding the goodness in characters.
They talk about...
S5E2 - QWS podcast - Kemper Donovan and Troy Hunter
QWS S5E2 Kemper Donovan and Troy Hunter
🎙️ New QWS Podcast Episode! 🌈✨
In QWS S5E2, Troy chats with USA crime author Kemper Don...
790. Dani Vee and Laura Brooke Robson - Love is an Algorithm
Dani Vee and Laura Brooke Robson chat from Sydney to New York about her new book Love is an Algorithm!
They chat about the timely nature...
789. TAKEOVER - Rory H Mather with Renae Hayward and Susan Joy Lu - What Can I Get For Mother's Day!
In this TAKEOVER episode Rory H Mather chats to author Renae Hayward and illustrator Susan Joy Lu about their beautiful new picture book What Can I Ge...