A. L Brody/ Jason Pinter, author of 'Dating and Dismemberment' - Monster rom-com award-nominee discusses paths to publication, getting the tone right, and improving the first draft
Writer's Routine
Dan Simpson
4.9 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
A.L. Brody is the author of the novel, 'Dating and Dismemberment'. It's monster rom-com inspired by Star Wars and The Sopranos. A.L. Brody is also Jason Pinter, a multi-award nominated, bestselling writer.
Jason has published thrillers, crime novels, YA books and stuff for younger kids. He's been nominated for the Thriller Award, the Barry Away, the RT Reviewers Choice Award, and many more. His path to publication has been a winding one, going traditional, then independent, and now traditional again. We discuss how it's all worked, and what he's learn from the different forms along the way.
You can hear about the singular idea for 'Dating and Dismemberment', why it gave him opportunities to be more creative than perhaps is normal, and how he got the tone right for the target audience.
We discuss how he's improved his first drafts, how he works without the muse striking, and how he's cracked marketing himself.
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| 0:00.0 | This week's episode of Writers Routine is sponsored by the Quick Book Reviews podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | If this show takes you behind the scenes of writing books, the Quick Book Reviews podcast takes you into what makes them brilliant. |
| 0:13.0 | It's all about the authors too. You can join Philippa, who for the last six years has been chatting to some of the biggest authors around and discovering their newest work. |
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| 0:45.3 | Linda LaPlante, Vasine Khan and Anne Cleaves. Philippa gets into all the fun questions too, finding |
| 0:52.9 | out what authors like to eat, where they |
| 0:55.1 | want to go on holiday, and the gossip about bits of their life that you won't find anywhere else. |
| 1:02.0 | All that with some very speedy book reviews, getting right to the heart of all the newest |
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| 1:12.6 | The Quick Book Reviews podcast is a lighthearted look at authors and what you might love about their new book. |
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| 1:23.2 | Just search for the Quick Book Reviews podcast. |
| 1:26.4 | Also this week's episode of the show is supported by The Missing, the new book from Fleur MacDonald. |
| 1:32.7 | The Missing is Fleur's 26 novel. |
| 1:35.4 | There's prolific and then there's 26 novels. |
| 1:39.1 | Fleur is a storyteller and knows how to get it done. |
| 1:42.7 | Known for her best-selling book, The Prospect, Fleur's novels brilliantly summon the spirit |
| 1:49.1 | of the vast Australian outback. |
| 1:52.3 | The Missing is the new one. |
| 1:53.4 | It tells the story of Max Galbraith, a teenager who goes missing in the middle of missing persons |
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