Unfortunately... Podcast

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A podcast about fiction, failure, and moving forward. Hosted by Mona West & Courtney Floyd. New episodes on the 1st & 3rd Friday of each month. 💻 https://unfortunatelypod.com/ 🎙️ https://pinecast.com/feed/unfortunately

The unfortunately logo, with Readercon's logo added to the image so that it looks like the train is about to crash into Readercon.
An audiogram of episode 24.
Audiogram preview of Unfortunately... episode 23.
Audiogram of Unfortunately... episode 22 with Piper L. White.
Audiogram of a preview of Unfortunately... episode 21.
Audiogram of episode 20.
Audiogram of an episode 19 preview.
Audiogram of Unfortunately episode 18.
The Unfortunately train crashing on an out bridge with the text Unfortunately... You're (Not?) Two Halves of the Same Brain. On tickets at the bottom of the graphic text reads Episode 17 with MK Hardy.
Audiogram episode preview
GIF of Unfortunately artwork with the caption Unfortunately... Progress isn't an Upward Slope, Episode 16 with Rukman Ragas.
audiogram of our episode with Rukman Ragas.
A GIF of the Unfortunately train crashing through the bridge with the text Unfortunately... We've Reached 1000 Listens.
Preview video for episode 15.
A graphic of a steam engine and train derailing in the middle of a broken bridge. The train cars read idea, book, query, dream. Above, there's a caption that reads Unfortunately... You Can't Just Set That Book Aside. Below the train, two tickets read Episode 14 with Roselyn Clarke.
Audiogram of episode 14 preview.
An audiogram from episode 13 Unfortunately...It's a Business Relationship.
An audiogram of episode 13 Unfortunately... It's a Business Relationship.
A graphic of a steam engine and train derailing in the middle of a broken bridge. The train cars read idea, book, query, dream. Above, there's a caption that reads Unfortunately... You Lose the Calluses. Below the train, two tickets read Episode 12 with Danai Christopoulou.
An audiogram of a clip from Unfortunately Podcast episode 12, You'll Lose the Calluses with Danai Christopoulou.
A graphic of a steam engine and train derailing in the middle of a broken bridge. The train cars read idea, book, query, dream. Above, there's a caption that reads Unfortunately... There's a Room Full of People Talking About You. Below the train, two tickets read Episode 10 with C. J. Dotson.
A graphic of a derailing train with cars that read "idea," "book," "query," and "dream." Smoke billows form the smokestack. At the top, stylized tickets read Unfortunately Episode 9 You're On the Publishing Treadmill... with Premee Mohamed
A graphic of a derailing train with cars that read "idea," "book," "query," and "dream." Smoke billows form the smokestack. At the top, stylized tickets read Unfortunately Episode 6 It Takes Luck with M. Stevenson.
Black and white single panel comic of a man and woman in bed. The woman is on her laptop, saying "I just feel like a failure if I don't achieve a milestone of human creativity in the fifteen minutes I have to myself each day."
Simple drawing of a white train on a blue background. The train, which has "2024" written on its cars, is plummeting off a broken bridge. The smoke from the smokestack reads "Happy New Year."
Audio clip from Unfortunately Podcast Episode 3: Mona: Have people come up to you and congratulated you on this deal and framed it in a way that you felt doesn't align with how you feel, like your own perception of it? Courtney: Yeah. Like, I think this is a cool question also to ask other people, um, in our- in our interviews, because I'm so curious if this is just a weird and neurodivergent thing because it feels like I'm lying if I agree, right? Like, what it feels like to me right now is that I made it off the Titanic. I am Rose and I am on that slab of wood. I'm not like actively batting Jack away. In this metaphor, Jack is other writers. Like, I'm not doing that. Like, I will happily pull you up onto the wood with me if I have the power to do so. But, like, that's how precarious it feels to have sold one book, right? Like, there-- I am ba-- I've barely, I've got one foot in the door. I'm not through the door yet.
Round piece of blue and gold art with text written in black marker that reads "the art that never sells was still worth making." Credit: inspiredtowrite on Instagram
Screenshot of an email subject line in the Unfortunately Podcast inbox, which reads: Unfortunately, you booked your first meeting (raised hands emoji)
Snippit of Zohar Jacobs' interview: "I think writing is a vast expanse of possibility, and what corner of that terrain, of that landscape you choose to explore is up to you. So maybe it's a bit of a choose-your-own-adventure thing. You hit dead ends along the way, but the beauty of the choose your own adventures, you can go back to the beginning of the book and try a different path. And as a writer, you can write your own, so there you are."
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