Author interviews with craft, conviction, and heart.
The Write Path talks with authors about the personal terrain around their books. Recent conversations move from gratitude and music to crime-procedural storytelling, past life regression, and the practical reasons writers keep shaping words.
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The Write Path is an author-interview show with a clear belief at its center: writing is not just output, it is a lived commitment. The conversations are framed around books, but they rarely stay only with the book as an object. They move toward the person who wrote it. Recent excerpts show the interviewer asking about creativity, motivation, and the reason a project had to exist. Wendy Bauer’s appearance connects Gratitude Attack with music education, piano, lyrics, rhyming, editing, and the shift from songwriting into book writing. R.L. Carpentier’s conversation brings in Our Lady of the Overlook, Quiet Whispers of the Overlook, crime-procedural storytelling, a trilogy structure, true-life influence, and the desire to move toward another series. Chris Nielsen’s episode widens the field through Being Pyotr Ilyich, Tchaikovsky, spirituality, past life regression, analytical thinking, trance, and a podcast series called Time Traveling. The range is broad, but the show’s posture is consistent. Authors are treated as people with a mission, not just as names attached to releases. The interviewer is direct, upbeat, and openly admiring. Guests get room to explain process while the emotional stakes stay close to the surface. There is craft talk here, especially around editing, lyrics, series design, and accessibility for readers. There is also a recurring interest in faith, hope, truth, creativity, and why words carry weight. The show suits a listener who wants author interviews with heart-forward conviction and practical creative detail. It also suits writers who like hearing how other writers describe the messy bridge between lived experience and finished work. The Write Path’s strongest distinction is its insistence that the writer’s inner reason matters as much as the book being promoted.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants author interviews that make room for creative process, personal motivation, and the beliefs behind a book. It fits writers and serious readers who prefer earnest conversation over detached literary coverage.
What sets it apart: The show sets itself apart by treating each guest’s writing life as the main subject, with the book acting as an entry point rather than the whole destination. Its recent range spans gratitude, music, crime fiction, spirituality, and past life regression without dropping its author-centered focus.
This is the podcast for authors to tell their tales. We don't just talk about our books, our work, our craft... We also talk about our journey, our mission and our stories. This is for the authors who understand that Chat GPT doesn't have a heart, or a soul. This is for the authors that believe YOUR story matters, the one you've lived, and the one you've told. Here, we all know that each page is a step forward. Welcome. This is the way...
Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A warm, craft-first author interview about wrapping up the Overlook trilogy and opening a new series.
This episode settles into a thoughtful look at small-town mystery and crime writing, with the strongest material coming from lived experience, authorship, and how a law-enforcement background can shape the stories being told.
Practical author business with a warm publishing brain.
Apple decisions, examined down to the window corner.
Weekly film, music, and arts criticism from Monocle 24's Midori House studio in London.
The engineering decisions behind code, agents, and control.
On The Write Path, first-time novelist Drew McHolm describes building The Minister of Justice from places and experiences he knew.
The Right Path Podcast interviews music educator and author Wendy Bauer about Gratitude Attack, a book that emerged from a difficult season and her experience of gratitude without striving.
Adele Royce describes moving from childhood reading and an English degree at Arizona State into Nevada casino publicity, Las Vegas marketing, and fiction writing.
The Right Path Podcast interviews Soraya James, a New Zealand author and somatic psychotherapist, about Metamorphosis, a teaching memoir delivered as a print book, audio experience, and companion app.
Judy Gaman discusses her book 'Love, Life, Lucille' and her journey as an author, podcaster, and healthcare CEO.
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The Write Path host Rory interviews Chris Nielsen about Being Piotr Ilyich, Tchaikovsky's Inner Life, a book she says emerged from recorded past-life regression sessions involving Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.