Kate Dramis, author of 'The Odds of You' - Romance writer discusses switching genre, writing sprints and dirty drafts
Writer's Routine
Dan Simpson
4.9 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Kate Dramis is a Sunday Times Bestselling author, having writing the epic 'The Curse of Saints' fantasy trilogy. However, after a bout of writer's block and shiny-new-idea syndrome, she was inspired on a plane journey to write romance.
'The Odds of You' tells the story of Sage Collins, a bestselling author en route to Comic Con, who is distracted on her flight by Theo Sharpe, the infuriatingly charming British actor who just won't stop talking. The chance meeting leds Sage to question everything... it's a romance novel after all.
We discuss the sprints of writing on, and then writing off, that takes her through the day. Also, you can hear how she avoids reviews but still knew readers were fine with her switching genre, and how she made her publishers agree, and you can hear about the 10 major plot points she likes before starting to write.
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| 1:23.3 | Hello and welcome along to a brand new episode of writers' routine. This week chatting to Kate Dramis. |
| 1:29.7 | Kate has been a best-selling fantasy author for a while, but writer's block and shiny new idea syndrome |
| 1:36.0 | led to her pivoting from fantasy to romance for her new novel, The Odds of You. We talk about why she finds |
| 1:43.6 | writing easier being around a lot of people. |
| 1:46.6 | Something that really helps my writer's block is getting together with my author friends and |
| 1:50.5 | writing together just because you can verbally process. You know, there's someone there to be like, |
| 1:57.4 | stop scrolling on Instagram and get back to your draft. And I think that it makes it |
| 2:02.3 | feel less lonely. And I think the thing with like getting stuck is that it can often feel like |
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