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Season 4 · Episode 34 · 25 August 2026 · 52 minutes

Substack and Autopsieswith JT Ellison

New York Times and USA Today bestselling psychological suspense author J.T. Ellison joins the lads to talk about her winding path from early rejections to bestselling success, the real-world research that powers her fiction, and how she balances craft, pacing, and the business of publishing. She also discusses her Substack writing experiments, and why vivid setting and strong community matter so much in a long author career.

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New York Times and USA Today bestselling psychological suspense author J.T. Ellison joins the lads to talk about her winding path from early rejections to bestselling success, the real-world research that powers her fiction, and how she balances craft, pacing, and the business of publishing. She also discusses her Substack writing experiments, and why vivid setting and strong community matter so much in a long author career.

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