Debut Author Podcasts

Each Debut Author Podcast is a conversation between our moderator Maggie Smith and a debut women's fiction author. 

Maggie Smith, a member of WFWA since 2015, hosts our podcast. Her debut novel, TRUTH AND OTHER LIES, placed third in the 2019 Rising Star competition and is currently out on submission. Her short story, THE DEVIL YOU KNOW, appeared in the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writer’s 2018 anthology False Face and she blogs on writing-related topics for the Chicago Writers Association and the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writer’s Association.  She also serves on the Board of Directors of the Chicago Writer’s Association and is the Managing Editor of their on-line literary publication The Write City Magazine.  A confirmed workshop junkie and avid Instagrammer, Maggie makes her home in Milwaukee. 

If you are a WFWA member and would like to submit your debut women's fiction for podcast consideration, please visit our submissions page.

Latest Podcast Episode

Debut Author Podcast: Sherri Leimkuhler

Sherri Leimkuhler has written professionally for more than twenty years but is a Jill of many trades, with experience in sales, marketing, aviation, and yoga instruction. Her health-and-fitness column, “For the Fun of Fit,” appeared bi-weekly in the Carroll County Times for nearly a decade.

A competitive triathlete and two-time Ironman finisher, Sherri also enjoys reading, hiking, paddleboarding, trail running, traveling, and wine tasting.

Sherri lives in Maryland with her husband, three daughters, and two Labrador retrievers. 

Past Podcasts

First Name	Last Name	Debut Title (click for podcast)
Sherri	Leimkuhler	What's Left Untold
Lainey	Cameron	The Exit Strategy
Marolyn	Krasner	The Radicals
Shawn	Keller Cooper	Drawing Down the Moon
Elizabeth	Gauffreau	Telling Sonny
Kelly	Duran	Can't Take It Back
Jae	Hodges	The Rose and the Whip
Jamie	Beck	If You Must Know
Sharina	Harris	(Im)perfectly Happy
Kathleen	West	Minor Dramas and Other Catastrophes
Alison	Hammer	You and Me and Us
Sally	Suen	Crystal Cove
Diane	Byington	If She Had Stayed
Donna Koros	Stramella	Coffee Killed My Mother
Rebecca	Hodge	Wildland
Barbara Linn	Probst	Queen of the Owls
Joanne	Kukanza Easley	Sweet Jane
Linda	Rosen	The Disharmony of Silence
Davis	Michelle	Learning to Bend
Kimmery	Martin	The Queen of Hearts
Sarah	Robinson	Every Last Drop
Jennifer	Gold	The Ingredients of Us
Sarah	Jones	Summer Squall
Lorelei	Brush	Uncovering
Ellen	LaCorte	The Perfect Fraud
Leanne	Treese	The Language of Divorce
Kathleen	Barber	Are You Sleeping
Judy	Kundert	Sky Queen
Leslie M.	Rollins	Good-Time Girl
Marlene	Adelstein	Sophie Last Seen
Jess	Woods	The Process of Fraying
Kimberly	Lynne	A Pocketwatch, Spray Paint & Morphine
Kaela	Coble	Friends & Other Liars
Suanne	Schafer	A Different Kind of Fire
Leah	Decesare	Forks, Knives and Spoons
Erin	Bartels	We Hope for Better Things
Jennifer	Klepper	Unbroken Threads
Leslie Schweitzer	Miller	Discovery
Sarahlyn	Bruck	Designer You
Heather	Frimmer	Bedside Manners
Reyna Marder	Gentin	Unreasonable Doubts
Megan A.	Clancy	A Burden of a Daughter
Ann	Griffin	Another Ocean to Cross
Julie	Maloney	A Matter of Chance
Johanne	Levesque	Trouble & Strife
Rachel	Dacus	The Renaissance Club
Elena	Mikalsen	Wrapped in the Stars
Eldonna	Edwards	This I Know
Marianne	Hansen	The Unscripted Life of Lizzy Dillinger
Carrie	Mumford	All But What's Left
Barbara Solomon	Josselsohn	The Last Dreamer
Anna	Quinn	The Night Child
Jennifer	Irwin	A Dress the Color of the Sky
Lori	Henriksen	The Winter Loon
Sweta Srivastava	Vikram	Louisiana Catch