This week's episode of Write The Good Fight, hosted by CEO and Publisher Kristen McGuiness, features Rise Literary author Maggie Boxey, whose book The 3 Things came out in May 2024. Maggie was also a TEDxOjai speaker, and her talk currently has over 26k views. Maggie and Kristen discuss the writing process and what it means to write through chronic illness and finding community in writing.

On this episode of Write the Good Fight, longstanding literary agent Stacey Glick shares what it takes to make it in book publishing, the pieces of a book proposal that most catch her eye (and that of other agents and authors) and how the book industry has changed for both the better and the worse over the last two decades. With real tips on how to position yourself as an expert in your field and as a storyteller who is offering a new take on a proven concept, Stacey shares what helps writers to become celebrated authors - and finally break through the traditional publishing ceiling. Hint: Having a great book is just the beginning.

On today’s episode, CEO Kristen McGuiness and CMO Lauren Porté Schwarzfeld sit down to chat with Emily Lynn Paulson, the author of Highlight Real: Finding Honesty and Recovery Beyond the Filtered Life, and Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing. MLMs, ditching social media, defamation, and giving your life’s truth to the world are all topics that are on the table today.

If you put the NYT Book Review and Taylor Swift between two slices of Bernie Sanders with a solid smear of Call Her Daddy, you would have a ridiculously tasty, genre bending sandwich called Write the Good Fight.

Part writing tipsters and publishing industry tricksters/part pop culture revolutionaries, the hosts of Write the Good Fight - and team from Rise Literary - are here to light a fire under your creativity, dig deep into what drives people to want to create, and share the behind the scenes truths of book publishing and entertainment.

Write the Good Fight will feature writers, authors, creatives, and book publishing professionals who all believe that books are the revolution – and that writing is the ultimate act of resistance.

On this weekly podcast, the staff of Rise Literary, including LA Times bestselling author and CEO Kristen McGuiness, author and CMO Lauren Porte Schwarzfeld, author and CFO Elena Azzoni, and Publishing Manager and aspiring author Raya Whittington, will rotate to chat with guests about why they write and create, what their process and craft look like, how they have gone from emerging creative to self-realized one, and in our recurring final segment, their one tip for burgeoning writers (just the tip!).

Educational, insightful, and always hilarious, Write the Good Fight is for anyone who dreams of being a creative - or who is already one. Because we’re all here to Write the Good Fight!