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How do you capture something as enormous and personal as the feeling of “home” in a book? How can you navigate the chaotic discovery period in writing something new? With Roz Morris. In the intro, KU vs Wide [Written Word Media]; Podcasts Overtake Radio, book marketing implications [The New Publishing Standard]; Tips for podcast guests; The Vatican embraces AI for translation, but not for sermons [National Catholic Reporter]; NotebookLM; Self-Publishing in German; Bones of the Deep. This episode is sponsored by Publisher Rocket, which will help you get your book in front of more Amazon readers so you can spend less time marketing and more time writing. I use Publisher Rocket for researching book titles, categories, and keywords — for new books and for updating my backlist. Check it out at www.PublisherRocket.com This show is also supported by my Patrons. Join my Community at Patreon.com/thecreativepenn Roz Morris is an award-nominated literary fiction author, memoirist, and previously a bestselling ghostwriter. She writes writing craft books for authors under the Nail Your Novel brand, and is also an editor, speaker, and writing coach. Her latest travel memoir is Turn Right at the Rainbow: A Diary of House-Hunting, Happenstance & Home. You can listen above or on your favorite podcast app or read the notes and links below. Here are the highlights and the full transcript is below. Show Notes How being an indie author has evolved over 15 years, from ebooks-only to special editions, multi-voice audiobooks and tools to help with everything Why “home” is such a powerful emotional theme and how to turn personal experiences into universal memoir Practical craft tips on show-don't-tell, writing about real people, and finding the right book title The chaotic discovery writing phase — why some books take seven years and why that's okay Building a newsletter sustainably by finding your authentic voice (and the power of a good pet story) Low-key book marketing strategies for memoir, including Roz's community-driven “home” collage campaign You can find Roz at RozMorris.org. Transcript of the interview with Roz Morris JOANNA: Roz Morris is an award-nominated literary fiction author, memoirist, and previously a bestselling ghostwriter. She writes writing craft books for authors under the Nail Your Novel brand, and is also an editor, speaker, and writing coach. Her latest travel memoir is Turn Right at the Rainbow: A Diary of House-Hunting, Happenstance & Home. Welcome back to the show, Roz. ROZ: Hi, Jo. It's so lovely to be back. I love that we managed to catch up every now and again on what we're doing. We've been doing this for so long. JOANNA: In fact, if people don't know, the first time you came on this show was 2011, which is 15 years. ROZ: I know! JOANNA: It is so crazy. I guess we should say, we do know each other in person, in real life, but realistically we mainly catch up when you come on the podcast. ROZ: Yes, we do, and by following what we're doing around the web. So I read your newsletters, you read mine. JOANNA: Exactly. So good to return. You write all kinds of different things, but let's first take a look back. The first time you were on was 2011, 15 years ago. You've spanned traditional and indie, you've seen a lot. You know a lot of people in publishing as well. What are the key things you think have shifted over the years, and why do you still choose indie for your work? ROZ: Well, lots of things have shifted. Some things are more difficult now, some things are a lot easier. We were lucky to be in right at the start and we learned the ropes and managed to make a lot of contacts with people. Now it's much more difficult to get your work out there and noticed by readers. You have to be more knowledgeable about things like marketing and promotions. But that said, there are now much better tools for doing all this. Some really smart people have put their brains to work about how authors can get their work to the right readers, and there's also a lot more understanding of how that can be done in the modern world. Everything is now much more niche-driven, isn't it? People know exactly what kind of thriller they like or what kind of memoir they like. In the old days it was probably just, “Well, you like thrillers,” and that could be absolutely loads of things. Now we can find far better who might like our work. The tools we have are astonishing. To start with, in about 2011, we could only really produce ebooks and paperbacks. That was it. Anything else, you'd have to get a print run that would be quite expensive. Now we can get amazing, beautiful special editions made. We can do audiobooks, multi-voice audiobooks. We can do ebooks with all sorts of enhancements. We can even make apps if we want to. There's absolutely loads that creators can do now that they couldn't before, so it's still a very exciting world. JOANNA: When we first met, there was still a lot of negativity here in the UK around indie authors or self-publishing. That does feel like it's shifted. Do you think that stigma around self-publishing has changed? ROZ: I think it has really changed, yes. To start with, we were regarded as a bit of the Wild West. We were just tramping in and making our mark in places that we hadn't been invited into. Now it's changed entirely. I think we've managed to convince people that we have the same quality standards. Readers don't mind—I don't think the readers ever minded, actually, so long as the book looked right, felt right, read right. It's much easier now. It's much more of a level playing field. We can prove ourselves. In fact, we don't necessarily have to prove ourselves anymore. We just go and find readers. JOANNA: Yes, I feel like that. I have nothing to prove. I just get on with my work and writing our books and putting them out there. We've got our own audiences now. I guess I always think of it as perhaps not a shadow industry, but almost a parallel industry. You have spanned a lot of traditional publishing and you still do editing work. You know a lot of trad pub authors too. Do you still actively choose indie for a particular reason? ROZ: I do. I really like building my own body of work, and I'm now experienced enough to know what I do well, what I need advice with, and help with. I mean, we don't do all this completely by ourselves, do we? We bring in experts who will give us the right feedback if we're doing a new genre or a genre that's new to us. I choose indie because I like the control. Because I began in traditional publishing—I was making books for other people—I just learned all the trades and how to do everything to a professional standard. I love being able to apply that to my own work. I also love the way I can decide what I'm going to write next. If I was traditionally published, I would have to do something that fitted with whatever the publisher would want of me, and that isn't necessarily where my muse is taking me or what I've become interested in. I think creative humans evolve throughout their lives. They become interested in different things, different themes, different ways of expressing themselves. I began by thinking I would just write novels, and now I've found myself writing memoirs as well. That shift would have been difficult if someone else was having to make me fit into their marketing plans or what their imprint was known for. But because I've built my own audience, I can just bring them with me and say, “You might like this. It's still me. I'm just doing something different.” JOANNA: I like that phrase: “creative humans.” That's what we are. As you say, I never thought I would write a memoir, and then I wrote Pilgrimage, and I think there's probably another one on its way. We do these different things over time. Let's get into this new book, Turn Right at the Rainbow. It's about the idea of home. I've talked a lot about home on my Books And Travel Podcast, but not so much here. Why is home such an emotional topic, for both positive and negative reasons? Why did you want to explore it? ROZ: I think home is so emotional because it grows around you and it grows on you very slowly without you really realising it. As you are not looking, you suddenly realise, “Oh, it means such a lot.” I love to play this mind game with myself—if you compare what your street looks like to you now and how it looked the first time you set eyes on it, it's a world of difference. There are so many emotional layers that build up just because of the amount of time we spend in a place. It's like a relationship, a very slow-growing friendship. And as you say, sometimes it can be negative as well. I became really fascinated with this because we decided to move house and we'd lived in the same house for about 30 years, which is a lot of time. It had seen a lot of us—a lot of our lives, a lot of big decisions, a lot of good times, a lot of difficult times. I felt that was all somehow encapsulated in the place. I know that readers of certain horror or even spiritual fiction will have this feeling that a place contains emotions and pasts and all sorts of vibes that just stay in there. When we were going around looking at a house to buy, I was thinking, “How do we even know how we will feel about it?” We're moving out of somewhere that has immense amounts of feelings and associations, and we're trying to judge whether somewhere else will feel right. It just seemed like we were making a decision of cosmic proportions. It comes down so much to chance as well. You're not only just deciding, “Okay, I'd like to buy that one,” and pressing a button like on eBay and you've won it. It doesn't happen like that. There are lots of middle steps. The other person's got to agree to sell to you, not do the dirty on you and sell to someone else. You've got all sorts of machinations going on that you have no idea about. And you only have what's on offer—you only get an opportunity to buy a place because someone else has decided to let it go. All this seemed like immense amounts of chance, of dice rolling. I thought, yet we end up in these places and they mean so much to us. It just blew my mind. I thought, “I've got to write about this.” JOANNA: It's really interesting, isn't it? I really only started using the word “home” after the pandemic and living here in Bath. We had luckily just bought a house before then, and I'd never really considered anywhere to be a home. I've talked about this idea of third culture kids—people who grow up between cultures and don't feel like there's a home anywhere. I was really interested in your book because there's so much about the functional things that have to happen when you move house or look for a house, and often people aren't thinking about it as deeply as you are. So did you start working on the memoir as you went to see places, or was it something you thought about when you were leaving? Was it a “moving towards” kind of memoir or a “sad nostalgia” memoir? ROZ: Well, it could have been very sad and nostalgic because I do like to write really emotional things, and they're not necessarily for sharing with everybody, but I was very interested in the emotions of it. I started keeping diaries. Some of them were just diaries I'd write down, some of them were emails I'd send to friends who were saying, “How's it going?” And then I'd find I was just writing pieces rather than emails, and it built up really. JOANNA: It's interesting, you said you write emotional things. We mentioned nostalgia, and obviously there are memories in the home, but it's very easy to say a word like “nostalgia” and everyone thinks that means different things. One of the important things about writing is to be very specific rather than general. Can you give us some tips about how we can turn big emotions into specific written things that bring it alive for our readers? ROZ: It's really interesting that you mention nostalgia, because what we have to be careful of is not writing just for ourselves. It starts with us—our feelings about something, our responses, our curiosities—but we then have to let other people in. There's nothing more boring than reading something that's just a memoir manuscript that doesn't reach out to anyone in any way. It's like looking through their holiday snaps. What you have to do is somehow find something bigger in there that will allow everyone to connect and think, “Oh, this is about me too,” or “I've thought this too.” As I said, we start with things that feel powerful and important for us, and I think we don't necessarily need to go looking for them. They emerge the more deeply we think about what we're writing. We find they're building. Certainly for me, it's what pulls me back to an idea, thinking, “There's something in this idea that's really talking to me now. What is it?” Often I'll need to go for walks and things to let the logical mind turn off and ideas start coming in. But I'll find that something is building and it seems to become more and more something that will speak to others rather than just to me. That's one way of doing it—by listening to your intuition and delving more and more until you find something that seems worth saying to other people. But you could do it another way. If you decided you wanted to write a book about home, and you'd already got your big theme, you could then think, “Well, how will I make this into something manageable?” So you start with something big and build it into smaller-scale things that can be related to. You might look at ideas of homes—situations of people who have lost their home, like the kind of displacement we see at the moment. Or we might look at another aspect, such as people who sell homes and what they must feel like being these go-betweens between worlds, between people who are doing these immense changes in their lives. Or we might think of an ecological angle—the planet Earth and what we're doing to it, or our place in the cosmos. We might start with a thing we want to write about and then find, “How are we going to treat it?” That usually comes down to what appeals to us. It might be the ecological side. It might be the story of a few estate agents who are trying to sell homes for people. Or it might be like mine—just a personal story of trying to move house. From that, we can create something that will have a wider resonance as well as starting with something that's personally interesting to you. The big emotions will come out of that wider resonance. JOANNA: Trying to go deeper on that— It's the “show, don't tell” idea, isn't it? If you'd said, “I felt very sad about leaving my house” or “I felt very sad about the prospect of leaving my house,” that is not a whole book. ROZ: Yes. It's why you felt sad, how you felt sad, what it made you think of. That's a very good point about “show, don't tell,” which is a fundamental writing technique. It basically tells people exactly how you feel about a particular thing, which is not the same as the way anyone else would feel about it—but still, curiously, it can be universal and something that we can all tap into. Funnily enough, by being very specific, by saying, “I realised when we'd signed the contract to sell the house that it wasn't ours anymore, and it had been, and I felt like I was betraying it,” that starts to get really personal. People might think, “Yes, I felt like that too,” or “I hadn't thought you'd feel like that, but I can understand it.” Those specifics are what really let people into the journey that you're taking them on. JOANNA: And isn't this one of the challenges, that we're not even going to use a word like “sad,” basically. ROZ: Yes. It's like, who was it who said, “Don't tell me if they got wet—tell me how it felt to get wet in that particular situation.” Then the reader will think, “Oh yes, they got wet,” but they'll also have had an experience that took them somewhere interesting. JOANNA: Yes. Show me the raindrops on the umbrella and the splashing through the puddles. I think this is so important with big emotions. Also, when we say nostalgia—we've talked before about Stranger Things and Kate Bush and the way Stranger Things used songs and nostalgia. Oh, I was watching Derry Girls—have you seen Derry Girls? ROZ: No, I haven't yet. JOANNA: Oh, it's brilliant. It's so good. It's pretty old now, but it's a nineties soundtrack and I'm watching going, “Oh, they got this so right.” They just got it right with the songs. You feel nostalgic because you feel an emotion that is linked to that music. It makes you feel a certain way, but everyone feels these things in different ways. I think that is a challenge of fiction, and also memoir. Certainly with memoir and fiction, this is so important. ROZ: Yes, and I was just thinking with self-help books, it's even important there because self-help books have to show they understand how the reader is feeling. JOANNA: Yes, and sometimes you use anecdotes to do that. Another challenge with memoir—in this book, you're going round having a look at places, and they're real places and there are real people. This can be difficult. What are things that people need to be wary of if using real people in real places? Do you need permissions for things? ROZ: That book was particularly tricky because, as you said, I was going around real places and talking about real people. With most of them, they're not identifiable. Even though I was specific about particular aspects of particular houses, it would be very hard for anyone to know where those houses were. I think possibly the only way you would recognise it is if that happened to be your own house. The people, similarly—there's a lot about estate agents and other professionals. They were all real incidents and real things that happened, but no one is identifiable. A very important thing about writing a book like this is you're always going to have antagonists, because you have to have people who you're finding difficult, people who are making life a bit difficult for you. You have to present them in a way that understands what it's like to be them as well. If you're writing a book where your purpose is to expose wrongdoing or injustices, then you might be more forthright about just saying, “This is wrong, the way this person behaved was wrong.” You might identify villains if that's appropriate, although you'd have to be very careful legally. This kind of book is more nuanced. The antagonists were simply people who were trying to do the right thing for them. You have to understand what it's like to be them. Quite a lot of the time, I found that the real story was how ill-equipped I sometimes felt to deal with people who were maybe covering something up, or maybe not, but just not expressing themselves very clearly. Estate agents who had an agenda, and I was thinking, “Who are they acting for? Are they acting for me, or are they acting for someone else that we don't even know about?” There's a fair bit of conflict in the book, but it comes from people being people and doing what they have to do. I just wanted to find a good house in an area that was nice, a house I could trust and rely on, for a price that was right. The people who were selling to me just wanted to sell the house no matter what because that was what they needed to do. You always have to understand what the other person's point of view is. Often in this kind of memoir, even though you might be getting very frustrated, it's best to also see a bit of a ridiculous side to yourself—when you're getting grumpy, for instance. It's all just humans being humans in a situation where ultimately you're going to end up doing a life-changing and important thing. I found there's quite a lot of humour in that. We were shuffling things around and, as I said, we were eventually going to be making a cosmic change that would affect the place we called home. I found that quite amusing in a lot of ways. I think you've got to be very levelheaded about this, particularly about writing about other people. Sometimes you do have to ask for permission. I didn't have to do that very much in this book. There were people I wrote about who are actually friends, who would recognise themselves and their stories. I checked that they didn't mind me quoting particular things, and they were all fine with that. In my previous memoir, Not Quite Lost, I actually wrote about a group of people who were completely identifiable. They would definitely have known who they were, and other people would have known who they were. There was no hiding them. They were the people near Brighton who were cryonicists—preserving dead bodies, freezing them, in the hope that they could be revived at a much later date when science had solved the problem that killed them. I went to visit this group of cryonicists, and I'd written a diary about it at the time. Then I followed up when I was writing the book to find out what happened to them. I thought, I've simply got to contact them and tell them I'm going to write this. “I'll send it to you, you give me your comments,” and I did. They gave me some good comments and said, “Oh, please don't put that,” or “Let me clarify this.” Everything was fine. So there I did actually seek them out and check that what I was going to write was okay. JOANNA: Yes, in that situation, there can't be many cryonicists in that area. ROZ: They really were identifiable. JOANNA: There's probably only one group! But this is really interesting, because obviously memoir is a personal thing. You're curating who you are as well in the book, and your husband. I think it's interesting, because I had the problem of “Am I giving away too much about myself?” Do you feel like with everything you've written, you've already given away everything about yourself by now? Are you just completely relaxed about being personal, for yourself and for your husband? ROZ: I think I have become more relaxed about it. My first memoir wasn't nearly as personal as yours was. You were going to some quite difficult places. With Turn Right at the Rainbow, I was approaching some darker places, actually, and I had to consider how much to reveal and how much not to. But I found once I started writing, the honesty just took over. I thought, “This is fine. I have read plenty of books that have done this, and I've loved them. I've loved getting to know someone on that deeper level.” It was just something I took my example from—other writers I'd enjoyed. JOANNA: Yes. I think that's definitely the way memoir has to happen, because it can be very hard to know how to structure it. Let's come to the title. Turn Right at the Rainbow. Really great title, and obviously a subtitle which is important as well for theme. Talk about where the title came from and also the challenges of titling books of any genre. You've had some other great titles for your novels—at least titles I've thought, “Oh yes, that's perfect.” Titling can be really hard. ROZ: Oh, thank you for that. Yes, it is hard. Ever Rest, which was the title of my last novel, just came to me early on. I was very lucky with that. It fitted the themes and it fitted what was going on, but it was just a bolt from the blue. I found that also with Turn Right at the Rainbow, it was an accident. It slipped out. I was going to call it something else, and then this incident happened. “Turn Right at the Rainbow” is actually one of the stories in the book. I call it the title track, as if it's an album. We were going somewhere in the car and the sat nav said, “Turn right at the rainbow.” And Dave and I just fell about, “What did it just say?!” It also seemed to really sum up the journey we were on. We were looking for rainbows and pots of gold and completely at the mercy of chance. It just stayed with me. It seemed the right thing. I wrote the piece first and then I kept thinking, “Well, this sounds like a good title.” Dave said it sounded like a good title. And then a friend of mine who does a lot of beta reading for me said, “Oh, that is the title, isn't it?” When several people tell you that's the title, you've got to take notice. But how we find these things is more difficult, as you said. You just work and work at it, beating your head against the wall. I find they always come to me when I'm not looking. It really helps to do something like exercise, which will put you in a bit of a different mind state. Do you find this as well? JOANNA: Yes, I often like a title earlier on that then changes as the book goes. I mean, we're both discovery writers really, although you do reverse outlines and other things. You have a chaotic discovery phase. I feel like when I'm in that phase, it might be called something, and then I often find that's not what it ends up being, because the book has actually changed in the process. ROZ: Yes, very much. That's part of how we realise what we should be writing. I do have working titles and then something might come along and say, “This seems actually like what you should call it and what you've been working towards, what you've been discovering about it.” I think a good title has a real sense of emotional frisson as well. With memoir, it's easier because we can add a subtitle to explain what we mean. With fiction, it's more difficult. We've got to really hope that it all comes through those few words, and that's a bit harder. JOANNA: Let's talk about your next book. On your website it says it might be a novel, it might be narrative nonfiction, and you have a working title of Four. I wondered if you'd talk a bit more about this chaotic discovery writing phase when we just don't know what's coming. I feel like you and I have been doing this long enough—you longer than me—so maybe we're okay with it. But newer writers might find this stage really difficult. Where's the fun in it? Why is it so difficult? And how can people deal with it? ROZ: You've summed that up really well. It's fun and it's difficult, and I still find it difficult even after all these years. I have to remind myself, looking back at where Ever Rest started, because that was a particularly difficult one. It took me seven years to work out what to do with it, and I wrote three other books in the meantime. It just comes together in the end. What I find is that something takes root in my mind and it collects things. The title you just picked out there—the book with working title of Four—it's now two books. One possibly another memoir and one possibly fiction. It's evolving all the time. I'm just collecting what seems to go with it for now and thinking, “That belongs with it somehow. I don't yet know how, but my intuition is that the two work well together.” There's a harmony there that I see. In the very early stages, that's what I find something is. Then I might get a more concrete idea, say a piece of story or a character, and I'll have the feeling that they really fit together. Once I've got something concrete like that, I can start doing more active research to pursue the idea. But in the beginning, they're all just little twinkles in the eye and you just have to let them develop. If you want to get started on something because you feel you want to get started and you don't feel happy if you're not working on something, you could do a far more active kind of discovery. Writing lists. Lists are great for this. I find lists of what you don't want it to be are just as helpful as what you do want it to be because that certainly narrows down a lot and helps you make good choices. You've got a lot of choices to make at the beginning of a book. You've got to decide: What's it going to be about? What isn't it going to be about? What kind of characters am I interested in? What kind of situations am I interested in? What doesn't interest me about this situation? Very important—saves you a lot of time. What does interest me? If you can start by doing that kind of thing, you will find that you start gathering stuff that gets attracted to it. It's almost like the world starts giving it to you. This is discovery writing, but it's also chivvying it along a bit and getting going. It does work. Joanna: I like the idea of listing what you don't want it to be. I think that's very useful because often writers, especially in the early stages—or even not, I still struggle with this—it's knowing what genre it might actually be. With Bones of the Deep, which is my next thriller, it was originally going to be horror and I was writing it, and then I realised one of the big differences between horror and thriller is the ending and how character arcs are resolved and the way things are written. I was just like, “Do you know what? I actually feel like this is more thriller than horror,” and that really shaped the direction. Even though so much of it was the same, it shaped a lot about the book. It's always hard talking about this stuff without giving spoilers, but I think deciding, “Okay, this is not a horror,” actually helped me find my way back to thriller. ROZ: Yes, I do know what you mean. That makes perfect sense to me, with no spoilers either. It's so interesting how a very broad-strokes picture like that can still be very helpful. Just trying to make something a bit different from the way you've been envisaging it can lead to massive breakthroughs. “Oh no, it's not a thriller—I don't have to be aiming for that kind of effect.” Or try changing the tone a little bit and see if that just makes you happier with what you're making, more comfortable with it. JOANNA: You mentioned the seven years that Ever Rest took. We should say the title is in two words—”Ever” and “Rest”—but it is also about Everest the mountain in many ways. That's why it's such a perfect title. If that took seven years and you were doing all this other stuff and writing other books along the way, how do you keep your research under control? How do you do that? I still use Scrivener projects as my main research place. How do you do your research and organisation? ROZ: A lot of scraps of paper. My desk is massive. It used to be a dining table with leaves in it. It's spread out to its fullest length, and it's got heaps of little pieces of paper. I know what's on them all, and there are different areas, different zones. I'm very much a paper writer because I like the tangibility of it. I also like the creativity of taking a piece of paper and tearing it into an odd shape and writing a note on that. It seems as sort of profound and lucky as the idea. I really like that. I do make text files and keep notes that way. Once something is starting to get to a phase where it's becoming serious, it will then be a folder with various files that discuss different aspects of it. I do a lot of discussing with myself while writing, and I don't necessarily look at it all again. The writing of it clarifies something or allows me to put something aside and say, “No, that doesn't quite belong.” Gradually I start to look at things, look at what I've gathered, and think, “How does this fit with this?” And it helps to look away as well. As I said with finding titles, sometimes the right thing is in your subconscious and it's waiting to just sail in if you look at it in a different way. There's a lot to be said for working on several ideas, not looking at some of them for a while, then going back and thinking, “Oh, I know what to do with this now.” JOANNA: Yes. My Writing the Shadow, I was talking about that when we met, and that definitely took about a decade. ROZ: Yes. JOANNA: I kept having to come back to that, and sometimes we're just not ready. Even as experienced writers, we're not ready for a particular book. With Bones of the Deep, I did the trip that it's based on in 1999. Since I became a writer, I've thought I have to use that trip in some way, and I never found the right way to use it. I came at it a couple of times and it just never sat right with me. Then something on this master's course I'm doing around human remains and indigenous cultures just suddenly all clicked. You can't really rush that, can you? ROZ: You absolutely can't. It's something you develop a sense for, the more you do—whether something's ready or whether you should just let it think about itself for a while whilst you work on something else. It really helps to have something else to work on because I panic a bit if I don't have something creative to do. I just have to create, I have to make things, particularly in writing. But I also like doing various little arty things as well. I need to always have something to be writing about or exploring in words. Sometimes a book isn't ready for that intense pressure of being properly written. So it helps to have several things that I can play with and then pick one and go, “Okay, now I'm going to really perform this on the page.” JOANNA: Do you find that nonfiction—because you have some craft books as well—do you find the nonfiction side is quite different? Can you almost just go and write a nonfiction book or work on someone else's project? Does that use a different kind of creativity? ROZ: Yes, it does. Creativity where you're trying to explain something to creative people is totally different from creativity where you're trying to involve them in emotions and a journey and nuances of meaning. They're very different, but they're still fun. So, yes, I am an editor as well, and that feeds my creativity in various unexpected ways. I'll see what someone has done and think, “Oh, that's very interesting that they did that.” It can make me think in different ways—different shapes for stories, different kinds of characters to have. It really opens your eyes, working with other creative people. JOANNA: I wanted to return to what you said at the beginning, that it is more difficult these days to get our work noticed. There's certainly a challenge in writing a travel memoir about home. What are you doing to market this book? What have you learned about book marketing for memoir in particular that might help other people? ROZ: Partly I realised it was quite a natural progression for me because in my newsletter I always write a couple of little pieces. I think they're called “life writing.” Just little things that have happened to me. That's sort of like memoir, creative nonfiction, personal essays. I was quite naturally writing that sort of thing to my newsletter readers, and I realised that was already good preparation for the kind of way that I would write in a memoir. As for the actual campaign, I actually came up with an idea which quite surprised me because I didn't think I was good at that. I'm making a collage of the word “home” written in lots of different handwriting, on lots of different things, in lots of different languages. I'm getting people to contribute these and send them to me, and I'm building them into a series of collages that's just got the word “home” everywhere. People have been contributing them by sending them by email or on Facebook Messenger, and I've been putting them up on my social platforms. They look stunning. It's amazing. People are writing the word “home” on a post-it or sticking it to a picture of their radiator. Someone wrote it in snow on her car when we had snow. Someone wrote it on a pottery shard she found in her drive when she bought the house. She thought it was mysterious. There are all these lovely stories that people are telling me as well. I'm making them into little artworks and putting them up every day as the book comes to launch. It's so much fun, and it also has a deeper purpose because it shows how home is different for all of us and how it builds as uniquely as our handwriting. Our handwriting has a story. I should do a book about that! JOANNA: That's a weird one. Handwriting always gets me, although it'd be interesting these days because so many people don't handwrite things anymore. You can probably tell the age of someone by how well-developed their handwriting is. ROZ: Except mine has just withered. I can barely write for more than a few minutes. JOANNA: Oh, I know what you mean. Your hand gets really tired. ROZ: We used to write three-hour exams. How did we do that? JOANNA: I really don't know. JOANNA: Just coming back on that. You mentioned mainly you're doing your newsletter and connecting with your own community. You've done podcasts with me and with other people. But I feel like in the indie community, the whole “you must build your newsletter” thing is described as something quite frantic. How have you built a newsletter in a sustainable manner? ROZ: I've built it by finding what suited me. To start with I thought, “What will I put in it? News, obviously.” But I wasn't doing that much that was newsworthy. Then I began to examine what news could actually be. The turning point really happened when I wrote the first memoir, Not Quite Lost: Travels Without a Sense of Direction. I thought, “I have to explain to people why I'm writing a memoir,” because it seemed like a very audacious thing to do—”Read about me!” I thought I had to explain myself. So I told the story of how I came to think about writing such an audacious book. I just found a natural way to tell stories about what I was doing creatively. I thought, “I like this. I like writing a newsletter like this.” And it's not all me, me, me. It's “I'm discovering this and it makes me think this,” and it just seems to be generally about life, about little questions that we might all face. From then, I found I really enjoyed writing a newsletter because I felt I had something to say. I couldn't put lists of where I was speaking, what I was teaching, what special offers I had, because that wasn't really how my creative life worked. Once I found something I could sustainably write about every month, it really helped. Oh, it also helps to have a pet, by the way. JOANNA: Yes, you have a horse! ROZ: I've got a horse. People absolutely love hearing the stories about my ongoing relationship with this horse. Even if they're not horsey, they write to me and say, “We just love your horse.” It helps to have a human interest thing going on like that. So that works for me. Everyone's got different things that will work for them. But for me, it builds just a sense of connection, human connection. I'm human, making things. JOANNA: In terms of actually getting people signed up—has it literally just been over time? People have read your book, signed up from the link at the back? Have you ever done any specific growth marketing around your newsletter? ROZ: I tried a little bit of growth marketing. I have a freebie version of one of my Nail Your Novel books and I put that on a promotion site. I got lots of newsletter signups, but they sort of dwindled away. When I get unsubscribes, it's usually from that list, because it wasn't really what they came for. They just came for a free book of writing tips. While I do writing tips on my blog—I'm still doing those—it wasn't really what my newsletter was about. What I found was that that wasn't going to get people who were going to be interested long-term in what I was writing about in my newsletter. Whatever you do, I found, has got to be true to what you are actually giving them. JOANNA: Yes, I think that's really key. I make sure I email once every couple of weeks. And you welcome the unsubscribes. You have to welcome them because those people are not right for you and they're not interested in what you're doing. At the end of the day, we're still trying to sell books. As much as you're enjoying the connection with your audience, you are still trying to sell Turn Right at the Rainbow and your other books, right? ROZ: Absolutely, yes. And as you say, someone who decides, “No, not for me anymore,” and that's good. There are still people who you are right for. JOANNA: Mm-hmm. ROZ: I do market my newsletter in a very low-key way. I make a graphic every month for the newsletter, it's like a magazine cover. “What's in it?” And I put that around all my social media. I change my Facebook page header so it's got that on it, my Bluesky header. People can see what it's like, what the vibe is, and they know where to find it if they're interested. I find that kind of low-key approach works quite well for what I'm offering. It's got to be true to what you offer. JOANNA: Yes, and true for a long-term career, I think. When I first met you and your husband Dave, it was like, “Oh, here are some people who are in this writing business, have already been in it for a while.” And both of you are still here. I just feel like— You have to do it in a sustainable way, whether it's writing or marketing or any of this. The only way to do it is to, as you said, live as a creative human and not make it all frantic and “must be now.” ROZ: Yes. I mean, I do have to-do lists that are quite long for every week, but I've learned to pace myself. I've learned how often I can write a good blog post. I could churn out blog posts that were far more frequent, but they wouldn't be as good. They wouldn't be as properly thought through. In the old days with blogs, you had an advantage if you were blogging very frequently, I think you got more noticed by Google because you were constantly putting up fresh content. But if that's not sustainable for you, it's not going to do you any good. Now there's so much content around that it's probably fine to post once a month if that is what you're going to do and how you're going to present the best of yourself. I see a lot on Substack—I've recently started Substack as well—I see people writing every other day. I think they're good, that's interesting, but I don't have time to read it. I would love to have the time, but I don't. So there's actually no sin in only posting once a month—one newsletter a month, one blog post a month, one Substack a month. That's plenty. People will still find that enough if they get you. JOANNA: Fantastic. So where can people find you and your books and everything you do online? ROZ: My website is probably the easiest place, RozMorris.org. JOANNA: Brilliant. Well, thank you so much for your time, Roz. As ever, that was great. ROZ: Thank you, Jo.The post Writing Emotion, Discovery Writing, And Slow Sustainable Book Marketing With Roz Morris first appeared on The Creative Penn.

NFL Free Agency Beginning and One Word full 1192 Mon, 09 Mar 2026 12:42:40 +0000 MgqyweaFCNGjUKo1W3Cw4GMx0ZNIg3p8 nfl,mlb,kansas city chiefs,kansas city royals,sports Fescoe & Dusty nfl,mlb,kansas city chiefs,kansas city royals,sports NFL Free Agency Beginning and One Word Fescoe in the Morning. One guy is a KU grad.   The other is on the KU football broadcast team,  but their loyalty doesn't stop there as these guys  are huge fans of Kansas City sports and the people  of Kansas City who make it the great city it is.   Start your morning with us at 5:58am!   2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. Sports False https://player.amperwavepodcasting.com?feed-link=https

Royals Insider Josh Vernier full 1380 Mon, 09 Mar 2026 13:47:30 +0000 1zBPpMRzJvQMYMYBOyNfxuqOBFwp350a mlb,kansas city royals,josh vernier,sports Fescoe & Dusty mlb,kansas city royals,josh vernier,sports Royals Insider Josh Vernier Fescoe in the Morning. One guy is a KU grad.   The other is on the KU football broadcast team,  but their loyalty doesn't stop there as these guys  are huge fans of Kansas City sports and the people  of Kansas City who make it the great city it is.   Start your morning with us at 5:58am!   2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. Sports False https://player.amperwavepodcasting.com?feed-link=https%3A%2F%2Frs

Hour 1: Travis Kelce Rumors, World Baseball Classic, Over Reaction Monday, Kenneth Walker or Gainwell? full 2708 Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:38:13 +0000 DOl0MefHEaeAdq0gCwlEbTEL1RSRdVP9 nfl,mlb,kansas city chiefs,world baseball classic,usa,kansas city royals,sports Fescoe & Dusty nfl,mlb,kansas city chiefs,world baseball classic,usa,kansas city royals,sports Hour 1: Travis Kelce Rumors, World Baseball Classic, Over Reaction Monday, Kenneth Walker or Gainwell? Fescoe in the Morning. One guy is a KU grad.   The other is on the KU football broadcast team,  but their loyalty doesn't stop there as these guys  are huge fans of Kansas City sports and the people  of Kansas City who make it the great city it is.   Start your morning with us at 5:58am!   2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. Sports False

Hour 2: Gene Watson WBC Scout, NFL Free Agency, One Word, Tarik Skubal Reconsidering full 2555 Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:39:27 +0000 wdDjWEzouwHfYYkuI1ajYRUncJ1MiZjX nfl,mlb,kansas city chiefs,world baseball classic,kansas city royals,sports Fescoe & Dusty nfl,mlb,kansas city chiefs,world baseball classic,kansas city royals,sports Hour 2: Gene Watson WBC Scout, NFL Free Agency, One Word, Tarik Skubal Reconsidering Fescoe in the Morning. One guy is a KU grad.   The other is on the KU football broadcast team,  but their loyalty doesn't stop there as these guys  are huge fans of Kansas City sports and the people  of Kansas City who make it the great city it is.   Start your morning with us at 5:58am!   2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. Sports False https://

Hour 3: Big 12 Tournament Week, Royals Insider Josh Vernier, Best Sports time of the Year full 2754 Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:43:19 +0000 Vow9X8HAW9fvjLIMHBN9uEuIw6w2Ule0 nfl,mlb,kansas city chiefs,kansas city royals,sports Fescoe & Dusty nfl,mlb,kansas city chiefs,kansas city royals,sports Hour 3: Big 12 Tournament Week, Royals Insider Josh Vernier, Best Sports time of the Year Fescoe in the Morning. One guy is a KU grad.   The other is on the KU football broadcast team,  but their loyalty doesn't stop there as these guys  are huge fans of Kansas City sports and the people  of Kansas City who make it the great city it is.   Start your morning with us at 5:58am!   2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. Sports False htt

Hour 4: NFL Breaking News, Who To Add in Free Agency, Brioche of the Weekend full 2502 Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:59:13 +0000 hOubhGZZwarabq3qwrbC19iAOdKGEvqH nfl,mlb,ncaa basketball,kansas city chiefs,sports Fescoe & Dusty nfl,mlb,ncaa basketball,kansas city chiefs,sports Hour 4: NFL Breaking News, Who To Add in Free Agency, Brioche of the Weekend Fescoe in the Morning. One guy is a KU grad.   The other is on the KU football broadcast team,  but their loyalty doesn't stop there as these guys  are huge fans of Kansas City sports and the people  of Kansas City who make it the great city it is.   Start your morning with us at 5:58am!   2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. Sports False https://player.a

Full Show: Travis Kelce Rumors, NFL Free Agency, WBC and MLB Scout Gene Watson, Riyals Insider Josh Vernier, Brioche of the Weekend full 10459 Mon, 09 Mar 2026 15:01:58 +0000 moXE3Zf4PystNNmGdGj085cgqulwGJUe nfl,mlb,kansas city chiefs,kansas city royals,sports Fescoe & Dusty nfl,mlb,kansas city chiefs,kansas city royals,sports Full Show: Travis Kelce Rumors, NFL Free Agency, WBC and MLB Scout Gene Watson, Riyals Insider Josh Vernier, Brioche of the Weekend Fescoe in the Morning. One guy is a KU grad.   The other is on the KU football broadcast team,  but their loyalty doesn't stop there as these guys  are huge fans of Kansas City sports and the people  of Kansas City who make it the great city it is.   Start your morning with us at 5:58am!   2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. Sports

Shirin Duniyar Wassani a wannan lokaci yayi duba ne kan yadda Amurka ta fara gargaɗin ƴan Ghana da ke da aniyar maƙalewa idan suka je ƙasar don kallon gasar cin kofin duniya da ƙasashen Amurka da Canada da kuma Mexico za su karɓi baƙunci a watan Yuni mai zuwa. Ganin irin matakan da dama gwamnatin Amurka ke ɗauka kan shigar baki ƙasar tuni ofishin Jakadancin ƙasar da ke Ghana ya fara gargaɗin masu shirin halartar gasar da su guji wuce wa'adin da aka basu. Jakadan Amurka a Ghana Rolf Olson ya ce saɓawa dokokin shige da fice na ƙasar na iya haifar da mummunan sakamako, gami da rashin sake samun damar shiga ƙasar a nan gaba. Ku latsa alamar sauti don sauraron cikakken shirin tare da Khamis Saleh..............

Shirin Lafiya Jari ce a wannan makon ya mayar da hankali ne kan irin cututtuka da ke barazana ga lafiyar al'umma a lokacin azumin watan Ramadan, musamman ga masu azumi da ke fuskantar sauye-sauyen lafiyar jiki. Galibi a duk lokacin da aka faro azumi, mutane da dama musamman masu kwantattun cutuka kan taso musamman idan mutane basu ɗauka matakan da suka kamata ba. Ku latsa alamar sauti don sauraron cikakken shirin tare Azima Bashir Aminu.......

Rundunar sojin Najeriya ƙarkashin dakarun ‘Operation HADIN KAI', ta musanta rahotanni da ke cewa mayaƙan Boko Haram sun kashe sojoji 40, a wani mummunan hari da suka kai Jihar Barno.  Sanarwar mai magana da yawun rundunar Lt. Col. Sani Uba, na zuwa ne, bayan da rahotanni suka ce, mayakan Boko Haram da aka tarwatsa su daga dajin Sambisa, suka sake haɗa kai tare da afkawa ƙauyukan Konduga da Ngoshe da Mainok da Jakana, inda bayanai suka ce sun kashe wani adadi mai yawa na sojoji da fararen hula a Ngoshe tare da sace da dama. Ku latsa alamar sauti don jin tattaunawar Ahmed Abba da Dakta Yahuza Getso matsanin tsaro a Najeriya.........

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   Well, your humble host has a pretty good nose for stink when it comes to what liberal law enforcement officials DON'T tell the public.  Our 22 year old man that dropped 20 bombs in a trash can at the World War I Museum is..... yup... wanted by ICE.  Of course he is and of course they didn't want to say it.  This is like "oh, there's children in the hospital" after the shooting at the Chiefs parade.  Ya, those children were the gang member shooters.  It's bad in KC folks, this should be a huge story but you should mostly be concerned at all the important information they keep from us.    Kristi Noem is out at DHS and off to another job that will be announced Saturday.  We'll fill you in on her replacement and why the move was made.    I met Scott Jennings in KC on Thursday and he couldn't have been a nicer man.  He's becoming a huge media star and his number of offers must be off the charts right now.  And.... it seems likely he'll be joining us here on the podcast sometime soon!    Worlds of Fun has been sold, along with 6 other Six Flags parks, to a KC company.    The World Baseball Classic starts with a Shohei Ohtani grand slam.  The royals have a tv disaster on their hands almost as bad as their pitching Thursday night.  KU, MU and KSU know their conference tourney seeds according to USA Today.   The lawsuit against 1587 continues even as the judge denies an emergency request.  A college program's assistant coach is arrested for being a pimp.  Yes, a pimp.    And a music superstar gets popped for a DUI which is about the 20th thing this person has been in trouble for.

World Baseball Classic - Team USA Starts Tonight full 650 Fri, 06 Mar 2026 14:16:14 +0000 Pf99fTx4vTD5773AlA7qmDpvZdqnatVO mlb,world baseball classic,usa,sports Fescoe & Dusty mlb,world baseball classic,usa,sports World Baseball Classic - Team USA Starts Tonight Fescoe in the Morning. One guy is a KU grad.   The other is on the KU football broadcast team,  but their loyalty doesn't stop there as these guys  are huge fans of Kansas City sports and the people  of Kansas City who make it the great city it is.   Start your morning with us at 5:58am!   2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. Sports False https://player.amperwavepodcasting.com?feed-

Shohei Ohtani on Cycle Watch at WBC and Best Drinks To End the Night full 822 Fri, 06 Mar 2026 12:16:08 +0000 sdE4IjRVUYp15dAGYr0EqldievRcv4gD mlb,kansas city royals,wbc,sports Fescoe & Dusty mlb,kansas city royals,wbc,sports Shohei Ohtani on Cycle Watch at WBC and Best Drinks To End the Night Fescoe in the Morning. One guy is a KU grad.   The other is on the KU football broadcast team,  but their loyalty doesn't stop there as these guys  are huge fans of Kansas City sports and the people  of Kansas City who make it the great city it is.   Start your morning with us at 5:58am!   2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. Sports False https://player.amperwave

Dayton Moores Royals or John Dorseys Chiefs? full 668 Fri, 06 Mar 2026 13:00:51 +0000 elwRcXbN32QYy0jDKw01ACay1pF8yCbY nfl,mlb,kansas city chiefs,kansas city royals,sports Fescoe & Dusty nfl,mlb,kansas city chiefs,kansas city royals,sports Dayton Moores Royals or John Dorseys Chiefs? Fescoe in the Morning. One guy is a KU grad.   The other is on the KU football broadcast team,  but their loyalty doesn't stop there as these guys  are huge fans of Kansas City sports and the people  of Kansas City who make it the great city it is.   Start your morning with us at 5:58am!   2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. Sports False https://player.amperwavepodcasting.com?feed-link

Royals Pressure and One Word full 1416 Fri, 06 Mar 2026 13:43:27 +0000 RU5e5ynQGSYlsrz8xDXbmLTqfsjy2VWS mlb,kansas city royals,cole ragans,matt quatraro,bobby witt,jac caglianone,carter jensen,sports Fescoe & Dusty mlb,kansas city royals,cole ragans,matt quatraro,bobby witt,jac caglianone,carter jensen,sports Royals Pressure and One Word Fescoe in the Morning. One guy is a KU grad.   The other is on the KU football broadcast team,  but their loyalty doesn't stop there as these guys  are huge fans of Kansas City sports and the people  of Kansas City who make it the great city it is.   Start your morning with us at 5:58am!   2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. Sports False https://player.amperwavepodcasting.com?feed-link=https%3A%2F%2Fr

Hour 4: World Baseball Classic USA, Cole Ragans Has A Lot of Pressure For the Royals, Richard of the Week full 2827 Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:58:54 +0000 50FLFvrNXww3zkp9YMafJN5cEXqelkcU nfl,mlb,kansas city chiefs,world baseball classic,usa,kansas city royals,sports Fescoe & Dusty nfl,mlb,kansas city chiefs,world baseball classic,usa,kansas city royals,sports Hour 4: World Baseball Classic USA, Cole Ragans Has A Lot of Pressure For the Royals, Richard of the Week Fescoe in the Morning. One guy is a KU grad.   The other is on the KU football broadcast team,  but their loyalty doesn't stop there as these guys  are huge fans of Kansas City sports and the people  of Kansas City who make it the great city it is.   Start your morning with us at 5:58am!   2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. Sports False

Predict Who Is A Chief Next Week full 1260 Fri, 06 Mar 2026 14:44:45 +0000 iG83CHbLS5PfJbJPsMRVEKIqsOey17d9 nfl,kansas city chiefs,travis etienne,kenneth walker,boye mafe,sports Fescoe & Dusty nfl,kansas city chiefs,travis etienne,kenneth walker,boye mafe,sports Predict Who Is A Chief Next Week Fescoe in the Morning. One guy is a KU grad.   The other is on the KU football broadcast team,  but their loyalty doesn't stop there as these guys  are huge fans of Kansas City sports and the people  of Kansas City who make it the great city it is.   Start your morning with us at 5:58am!   2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. Sports False https://player.amperwavepodcasting.com?feed-link=https%3A%2F

Hour 1: Shohei Ohtani's Greatness, Mahomes and Ohtani Unanimous Hall of Fame, Dorsey or Dayton's Teams full 2832 Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:14:58 +0000 k3PUrK3SbqhAOHoGdU6nUy9OU8xMmJlh nfl,mlb,patrick mahomes,kansas city chiefs,kansas city royals,sports Fescoe & Dusty nfl,mlb,patrick mahomes,kansas city chiefs,kansas city royals,sports Hour 1: Shohei Ohtani's Greatness, Mahomes and Ohtani Unanimous Hall of Fame, Dorsey or Dayton's Teams Fescoe in the Morning. One guy is a KU grad.   The other is on the KU football broadcast team,  but their loyalty doesn't stop there as these guys  are huge fans of Kansas City sports and the people  of Kansas City who make it the great city it is.   Start your morning with us at 5:58am!   2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. Sports False

Hour 2: How Aggressive Will the Chiefs Be? Royals Pressure in 2026, One Word, Jayson Tatum Is Back and That Means Good Things For Patrick Mahomes full 2797 Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:17:57 +0000 te0p0Dy92s51MRFBvfyKPLq3EOqN8jfe nfl,mlb,kansas city chiefs,world baseball classic,kansas city royals,sports Fescoe & Dusty nfl,mlb,kansas city chiefs,world baseball classic,kansas city royals,sports Hour 2: How Aggressive Will the Chiefs Be? Royals Pressure in 2026, One Word, Jayson Tatum Is Back and That Means Good Things For Patrick Mahomes Fescoe in the Morning. One guy is a KU grad.   The other is on the KU football broadcast team,  but their loyalty doesn't stop there as these guys  are huge fans of Kansas City sports and the people  of Kansas City who make it the great city it is.   Start your morning with us at 5:58am!   2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. Sports

Hour 3: World Baseball Classic is Here, Chiefs Off-Season Aggression, Veach or Andy Reid with More Pressure full 2560 Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:21:43 +0000 y171Lb4y8nYltJdCq7y46sSMCQ5A9QEw nfl,mlb,kansas city chiefs,world baseball classic,sports Fescoe & Dusty nfl,mlb,kansas city chiefs,world baseball classic,sports Hour 3: World Baseball Classic is Here, Chiefs Off-Season Aggression, Veach or Andy Reid with More Pressure Fescoe in the Morning. One guy is a KU grad.   The other is on the KU football broadcast team,  but their loyalty doesn't stop there as these guys  are huge fans of Kansas City sports and the people  of Kansas City who make it the great city it is.   Start your morning with us at 5:58am!   2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. Sports False

Full Show: Chiefs Off-Season Aggressiveness, Royals With the Most Pressure, World Baseball Classic is Here, Shohei Ohtani and Mahomes for Unanimous Hall of Fame full 11023 Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:00:43 +0000 XzZ6sr8USx147PsBbCOVQrTBffGaglBb nfl,mlb,kansas city chiefs,kansas city royals,shohei othani,sports Fescoe & Dusty nfl,mlb,kansas city chiefs,kansas city royals,shohei othani,sports Full Show: Chiefs Off-Season Aggressiveness, Royals With the Most Pressure, World Baseball Classic is Here, Shohei Ohtani and Mahomes for Unanimous Hall of Fame Fescoe in the Morning. One guy is a KU grad.   The other is on the KU football broadcast team,  but their loyalty doesn't stop there as these guys  are huge fans of Kansas City sports and the people  of Kansas City who make it the great city it is.   Start your morning with us at 5:58am!   2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. Sports

New Day rolls into the 3rd hour with the New Day Fast Break getting the latest news on MU, KSU, and KU, Basketball with Gabe DeArmond, Jay Heidrick. and Nick Springer. Next we are joined by Mike Macfarlane former Royals catcher and friend of the show, to talk royals ahead of their season beginning at the end of the month. SSJ and Jake discuss free agent running backs, and receivers.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Smash or Pass full 674 Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:48:03 +0000 gTEo04cfhqiemnnAO7P4YaJYhPkb4G6I nfl,kansas city chiefs,sports Fescoe & Dusty nfl,kansas city chiefs,sports Smash or Pass Fescoe in the Morning. One guy is a KU grad.   The other is on the KU football broadcast team,  but their loyalty doesn't stop there as these guys  are huge fans of Kansas City sports and the people  of Kansas City who make it the great city it is.   Start your morning with us at 5:58am!   2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. Sports False https://player.amperwavepodcasting.com?feed-link=https%3A%2F%2Frss.amperwave.ne

Nate Taylor Reaction to McDuffie and Hypotheticals full 1299 Thu, 05 Mar 2026 12:42:40 +0000 B1v9bbGKDQta3OoY09yC8TxFjhIrKSRq nfl,kansas city chiefs,trent mcduffie,sports Fescoe & Dusty nfl,kansas city chiefs,trent mcduffie,sports Nate Taylor Reaction to McDuffie and Hypotheticals Fescoe in the Morning. One guy is a KU grad.   The other is on the KU football broadcast team,  but their loyalty doesn't stop there as these guys  are huge fans of Kansas City sports and the people  of Kansas City who make it the great city it is.   Start your morning with us at 5:58am!   2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. Sports False https://player.amperwavepodcasting.com?fee

Chiefs Color Analyst Danan Hughes Talks McDuffie Trade full 747 Thu, 05 Mar 2026 13:44:39 +0000 PxcaeknUvp1I6alg1VaEBRiyC4R3RF4V nfl,kansas city chiefs,danan hughes,trent mcduffie,sports Fescoe & Dusty nfl,kansas city chiefs,danan hughes,trent mcduffie,sports Chiefs Color Analyst Danan Hughes Talks McDuffie Trade Fescoe in the Morning. One guy is a KU grad.   The other is on the KU football broadcast team,  but their loyalty doesn't stop there as these guys  are huge fans of Kansas City sports and the people  of Kansas City who make it the great city it is.   Start your morning with us at 5:58am!   2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. Sports False https://player.amperwavepodcasting.com

Ben Maller and One Word full 1334 Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:15:50 +0000 CaV6hiWSanNHnArcj7PTiCIb3vKKKrU4 nfl,mlb,kansas city chiefs,kansas city royals,wbc,sports Fescoe & Dusty nfl,mlb,kansas city chiefs,kansas city royals,wbc,sports Ben Maller and One Word Fescoe in the Morning. One guy is a KU grad.   The other is on the KU football broadcast team,  but their loyalty doesn't stop there as these guys  are huge fans of Kansas City sports and the people  of Kansas City who make it the great city it is.   Start your morning with us at 5:58am!   2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. Sports False https://player.amperwavepodcasting.com?feed-link=https%3A%2F%2Frss.am

Hour 3: A McDuffie Trade, Justin Jefferson For Picks, Baseballs USA Trio full 2716 Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:44:51 +0000 xdiWdIW1KKMNuWiOo3fKcg30pJKHBoBK nfl,mlb,kansas city chiefs,kansas city royals,sports Fescoe & Dusty nfl,mlb,kansas city chiefs,kansas city royals,sports Hour 3: A McDuffie Trade, Justin Jefferson For Picks, Baseballs USA Trio Fescoe in the Morning. One guy is a KU grad.   The other is on the KU football broadcast team,  but their loyalty doesn't stop there as these guys  are huge fans of Kansas City sports and the people  of Kansas City who make it the great city it is.   Start your morning with us at 5:58am!   2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. Sports False https://player.amper

Contract Strategies for the Chiefs full 732 Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:50:28 +0000 JtTqfX1YkOHY38xVdA9beQGmgXjXpqQZ nfl,kansas city chiefs,sports Fescoe & Dusty nfl,kansas city chiefs,sports Contract Strategies for the Chiefs Fescoe in the Morning. One guy is a KU grad.   The other is on the KU football broadcast team,  but their loyalty doesn't stop there as these guys  are huge fans of Kansas City sports and the people  of Kansas City who make it the great city it is.   Start your morning with us at 5:58am!   2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. Sports False https://player.amperwavepodcasting.com?feed-link=https%3A%

Does MLB Have the Best Trio Of American Athletes? full 712 Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:14:50 +0000 IEnb0bjOKDVpkOrrSxSVUE9YSocCK3Nr nfl,mlb,usa,kansas city royals,wbc,kanas city chiefs,sports Fescoe & Dusty nfl,mlb,usa,kansas city royals,wbc,kanas city chiefs,sports Does MLB Have the Best Trio Of American Athletes? Fescoe in the Morning. One guy is a KU grad.   The other is on the KU football broadcast team,  but their loyalty doesn't stop there as these guys  are huge fans of Kansas City sports and the people  of Kansas City who make it the great city it is.   Start your morning with us at 5:58am!   2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. Sports False https://player.amperwavepodcasting.com?feed

Hour 1: Trent McDuffie Trade, Would You Restructure Chris Jones, Different McDuffie Hypotheticals full 2650 Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:15:58 +0000 bV9Br3pxMFBCPxZyFW4XCCFBQezt8KOz nfl,mlb,kansas city chiefs,trent mcduffie,sports Fescoe & Dusty nfl,mlb,kansas city chiefs,trent mcduffie,sports Hour 1: Trent McDuffie Trade, Would You Restructure Chris Jones, Different McDuffie Hypotheticals Fescoe in the Morning. One guy is a KU grad.   The other is on the KU football broadcast team,  but their loyalty doesn't stop there as these guys  are huge fans of Kansas City sports and the people  of Kansas City who make it the great city it is.   Start your morning with us at 5:58am!   2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. Sports False

Hour 4: The Chiefs Can Plan For the Future and Still Contend, McDuffie Thoughts full 2578 Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:57:34 +0000 DGIlxhKZN68PgUYmtVdG0zfsDBRfvkUV nfl,kansas city chiefs,trent mcduffie,sports Fescoe & Dusty nfl,kansas city chiefs,trent mcduffie,sports Hour 4: The Chiefs Can Plan For the Future and Still Contend, McDuffie Thoughts Fescoe in the Morning. One guy is a KU grad.   The other is on the KU football broadcast team,  but their loyalty doesn't stop there as these guys  are huge fans of Kansas City sports and the people  of Kansas City who make it the great city it is.   Start your morning with us at 5:58am!   2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. Sports False https://playe

Full Show: React To Trent McDuffie Trade, Chiefs Color Analyst Danan Hughes, What's Next For the Chiefs, Restructure Chris Jones, MLB's USA Trio, full 10716 Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:00:27 +0000 2kA0CBD75phKgSJacRACq1GOUr1rfRog nfl,mlb,kansas city chiefs,kansas city royals,sports Fescoe & Dusty nfl,mlb,kansas city chiefs,kansas city royals,sports Full Show: React To Trent McDuffie Trade, Chiefs Color Analyst Danan Hughes, What's Next For the Chiefs, Restructure Chris Jones, MLB's USA Trio, Fescoe in the Morning. One guy is a KU grad.   The other is on the KU football broadcast team,  but their loyalty doesn't stop there as these guys  are huge fans of Kansas City sports and the people  of Kansas City who make it the great city it is.   Start your morning with us at 5:58am!   2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. Sports

Would You Trade For Justin Jefferson? full 1270 Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:56:43 +0000 UHs6lp7BXV3LXSwpsc9pgwtUzSzl5wNX nfl,kansas city chiefs,justin jefferson,trent mcduffie,sports Fescoe & Dusty nfl,kansas city chiefs,justin jefferson,trent mcduffie,sports Would You Trade For Justin Jefferson? Fescoe in the Morning. One guy is a KU grad.   The other is on the KU football broadcast team,  but their loyalty doesn't stop there as these guys  are huge fans of Kansas City sports and the people  of Kansas City who make it the great city it is.   Start your morning with us at 5:58am!   2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. Sports False https://player.amperwavepodcasting.com?feed-link=https%

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Full Show: KU Has Offensive Issues, Jay Binkley Joins, Chiefs Trading Trent McDuffie Rumors Rising, Royals and World Baseball Classic, Tax Dollars to Pay Players?! full 10824 Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:00:38 +0000 yZGd0r6OfWHQOUfhUQCw21BCqLptWpKt nfl,mlb,ncaa basketball,kansas city chiefs,kansas city royals,ku,sports Fescoe & Dusty nfl,mlb,ncaa basketball,kansas city chiefs,kansas city royals,ku,sports Full Show: KU Has Offensive Issues, Jay Binkley Joins, Chiefs Trading Trent McDuffie Rumors Rising, Royals and World Baseball Classic, Tax Dollars to Pay Players?! Fescoe in the Morning. One guy is a KU grad.   The other is on the KU football broadcast team,  but their loyalty doesn't stop there as these guys  are huge fans of Kansas City sports and the people  of Kansas City who make it the great city it is.   Start your morning with us at 5:58am!   2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. Sports

Hour 4: World Baseball Classic Heating Up, Chiefs Options in Free Agency, Jay Binkley Birthday full 2735 Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:59:16 +0000 6aA9fdiEYvzKw2SGsue6ZEDwkFBE9gEc nfl,mlb,kansas city chiefs,world baseball classic,sports Fescoe & Dusty nfl,mlb,kansas city chiefs,world baseball classic,sports Hour 4: World Baseball Classic Heating Up, Chiefs Options in Free Agency, Jay Binkley Birthday Fescoe in the Morning. One guy is a KU grad.   The other is on the KU football broadcast team,  but their loyalty doesn't stop there as these guys  are huge fans of Kansas City sports and the people  of Kansas City who make it the great city it is.   Start your morning with us at 5:58am!   2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. Sports False

Hour 3: KU Jayhawks Bad Streak, Senior Night Is Antiquated, Defense for the Chiefs, KU Paying Athletes With Tax Dollars full 2609 Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:57:45 +0000 1rlcdcQ1jJSF51Tux7U9EWNZCw2XqELG nfl,mlb,ncaa basketball,kansas city chiefs,ku,sports Fescoe & Dusty nfl,mlb,ncaa basketball,kansas city chiefs,ku,sports Hour 3: KU Jayhawks Bad Streak, Senior Night Is Antiquated, Defense for the Chiefs, KU Paying Athletes With Tax Dollars Fescoe in the Morning. One guy is a KU grad.   The other is on the KU football broadcast team,  but their loyalty doesn't stop there as these guys  are huge fans of Kansas City sports and the people  of Kansas City who make it the great city it is.   Start your morning with us at 5:58am!   2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. Sports False

Hour 2: Salary Cap in Baseball, Trading McDuffie Rumors Growing, One Word, Bobby Witt Jr. Hitting Lead Off Pros and Cons full 2592 Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:42:36 +0000 1iJWXu74w7j2DmekPS9OHhcdbnyBdZ5t nfl,mlb,kansas city chiefs,kansas city royals,sports Fescoe & Dusty nfl,mlb,kansas city chiefs,kansas city royals,sports Hour 2: Salary Cap in Baseball, Trading McDuffie Rumors Growing, One Word, Bobby Witt Jr. Hitting Lead Off Pros and Cons Fescoe in the Morning. One guy is a KU grad.   The other is on the KU football broadcast team,  but their loyalty doesn't stop there as these guys  are huge fans of Kansas City sports and the people  of Kansas City who make it the great city it is.   Start your morning with us at 5:58am!   2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. Sports False

Is Senior Night Done? And Pass Rushers The Chiefs Could Acquire full 1281 Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:41:22 +0000 ILVLyKbIdUnkdtjNhppHMb0EeXm1EEMK nfl,ncaa basketball,kansas city chiefs,sports Fescoe & Dusty nfl,ncaa basketball,kansas city chiefs,sports Is Senior Night Done? And Pass Rushers The Chiefs Could Acquire Fescoe in the Morning. One guy is a KU grad.   The other is on the KU football broadcast team,  but their loyalty doesn't stop there as these guys  are huge fans of Kansas City sports and the people  of Kansas City who make it the great city it is.   Start your morning with us at 5:58am!   2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. Sports False https://player.amperwavepodca

Hour 1: Should Bobby Witt Jr Hit Lead Off? KU loses Again, Travis Etienne Could be the Answer and Jay Binkley Birthday Celebration full 2909 Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:41:12 +0000 Oi3tPt8RQIEjo32mn2mNiw8eBpzNaHQF nfl,mlb,kansas city chiefs,kansas city royals,sports Fescoe & Dusty nfl,mlb,kansas city chiefs,kansas city royals,sports Hour 1: Should Bobby Witt Jr Hit Lead Off? KU loses Again, Travis Etienne Could be the Answer and Jay Binkley Birthday Celebration Fescoe in the Morning. One guy is a KU grad.   The other is on the KU football broadcast team,  but their loyalty doesn't stop there as these guys  are huge fans of Kansas City sports and the people  of Kansas City who make it the great city it is.   Start your morning with us at 5:58am!   2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. Sports

Trading Trent McDuffie Gaining Buzz and One Word full 1333 Wed, 04 Mar 2026 13:42:39 +0000 iGhefyqCS4BQkSX2WyTrsjPykvrQCPF7 nfl,kansas city chiefs,trent mcduffie,sports Fescoe & Dusty nfl,kansas city chiefs,trent mcduffie,sports Trading Trent McDuffie Gaining Buzz and One Word Fescoe in the Morning. One guy is a KU grad.   The other is on the KU football broadcast team,  but their loyalty doesn't stop there as these guys  are huge fans of Kansas City sports and the people  of Kansas City who make it the great city it is.   Start your morning with us at 5:58am!   2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. Sports False https://player.amperwavepodcasting.com?feed-

KU's Offensive Struggles and Is It Travis Etienne For the Chiefs? full 1143 Wed, 04 Mar 2026 12:44:49 +0000 FG2cr2MeGFDaXjMUmBzX0EkoRlwnufQ5 ncaa basketball,kansas city chiefs,travis etienne,bill self,ku,darryn peterson,sports Fescoe & Dusty ncaa basketball,kansas city chiefs,travis etienne,bill self,ku,darryn peterson,sports KU's Offensive Struggles and Is It Travis Etienne For the Chiefs? Fescoe in the Morning. One guy is a KU grad.   The other is on the KU football broadcast team,  but their loyalty doesn't stop there as these guys  are huge fans of Kansas City sports and the people  of Kansas City who make it the great city it is.   Start your morning with us at 5:58am!   2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. Sports False https://player.amperwavepod

KU loses in very poor fashion + Mizzou falls to OU full 592 Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:20:06 +0000 LnVIJQYOGXqhaJZS0lIFxRjX7xfRApOb college basketball,kansas jayhawks,missouri tigers,society & culture Cody & Gold college basketball,kansas jayhawks,missouri tigers,society & culture KU loses in very poor fashion + Mizzou falls to OU Hosts Cody Tapp & Alex Gold team up for 610 Sports Radio's newest mid-day show "Cody & Gold."  Two born & raised Kansas Citians, Cody & Gold have been through all the highs and lows as a KC sports fan and they know the passion Kansas City has for their sports teams."Cody & Gold" will be a show focused on smart, sports conversation with the best voices from KC and around the country. It will also feature our listeners with your calls, texts & tweets as we want you to be a part of the show, not just a listener.  Cody & Gold, weekdays 10a-2p on 610 Sports Radio.  2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. Society & Culture False https://player.amperwavepodcasting.com?fee

KU's Loss & The Karma & Effect bonus 1010 Wed, 04 Mar 2026 13:55:27 +0000 ShoQBlP8Li6EmPbBL7jdRRR1eixLuuQE sports Sports Daily sports KU's Loss & The Karma & Effect Wichita's popular morning local sports talk radio show is Sports Daily with Jacob Albracht and Tommy Castor. Listen live M-F 7a-11a on KFH! 2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. Sports False https://player.amperwavepodcasting.com?feed-link=https%3A%2F%2

On this episode of The Jayhawker, Nate Bukaty sits down with Jason Booker, Deputy Athletics Director for External Affairs and Revenue Generation at the University of Kansas. The two dive into the major announcement that the Algeria national football team will use KU and Rock Chalk Park as its home base during the FIFA World Cup. They discuss what this opportunity means for the university on a global stage from increased visibility and recruiting advantages to long-term partnerships and revenue growth. Jason also explains the behind-the-scenes work that went into making this partnership a reality and how KU positioned itself as a premier destination. Beyond campus, the conversation highlights the economic and cultural impact this will have on Lawrence, Kansas including tourism, community engagement, and the chance to showcase the city to an international audience. The Jayhawker Podcast is presented by the University of Kansas Health System and by Xfinity, get the smartest WiFi only for Xfinity, imagine that!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

   Nobody wants war but after nearly 50 years of killing Americans and chanting "Death to America" it was eventually going to happen with Iran and their radical, oppressive regime.  In an incredible show of military precision and strengh, Iran's leaders were taken out and their military operations have been pounded and are in chaos.  To be sure, President Trump did exactly what he said he would do.  He said it on the campaign trail, he warned them publicy and then he did it.  If this somehow creates peace in the middle east, it will be his crowning achievement.    A Kansas City mega church pastor is planning to run for US Senate and he's certainly well known.  But not always for the reasons you may like.     Andy Reid couldn't make it to the NFL Combine this year recovering from a knee procedure but he sure is upbeat about rebuilding his football team.   KU gets beaten up pretty good in Arizona.  Mizzou rolls and has a great shot at finishing 4th or higher in the SEC.  Carter Jensen goes deep for the Royals.  The Cardinals are discounting all you can eat tickets this year and Tyler Reddick wins for the third week in a row in the NASCAR Cup Series.... to start the season!    And something is just a little fishy about our Final Final today.