People often tell New York Times best-selling romantasy writer Stacey McEwan that they don't like her female main characters. Much to their surprise, Stacey often agrees with them. Yet she still has very good reasons for writing them just as they are.

In this episode, the primary school teacher turned author of the Artisan Trilogy, including A Forbidden Alchemy and the newly published A Forsaken Prophecy joins Luke Bateman to discuss how she was confident she would be an author from a very young age - and how that confidence was shaken. Stacey describes how she gave entire classes of students experiences in storytelling they've never forgotten. She describes exactly how she felt when she learned she had a best-seller, how she still struggles with editing feedback - and, a fantasy map mishap she didn't see coming.