This is K.M. Wylant and you are listening to the 454th episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors Podcast.

Welcome back to the podcast. As you may have noticed I haven't been able to put out a new

episode for several weeks,

due mostly to Christmas craziness at the end of last year.

But also because of some important news.

I now get to finally announce that I have officially launched my historical superhero novel, Wayfair.

So after hinting at its release last fall, I kind of went dark about it, and this was due to a last minute decision to play around

with some marketing experiments and also in no small part because the timing ended up not so

fortuitously coinciding with my move last year. But the book is out now.

So if an adventurous vibe along the lines of Spider-Man meets Charles Dickens strikes your fancy, please check the book out.

I'm very happy with this book and super excited to share it with all of you, so I hope you enjoy it. And now I hope you also enjoyed this week's podcast

How to Create the Perfect Writing Process for You.

Remember the good old days when your idea of a writing process was as simple as one, two, three,

one, you sit down, two, put your hands to the keyboard, and three, write.

For most writers, that quaint little take on the writing process

died on the day they stalled out on number two,

with hands poised receptively above the keyboard and no words.

If you recognize that experience in any measure, then your next step, same as mine, was probably to start madly researching

your way toward the perfect writing process. Like me, you probably read all the articles

and interviews eating up the words of famous and successful writers whose writing

processes included a wide range of routines, superstitions, absolutist claims, and sometimes downright confusing contradictions.

You probably started experimenting, trying on first Stephen King's writing routine, then Joyce Carol Oates, then Brandon Sanderson's.

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