Writing Excuses

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Writing Excuses
The cover art for the Writing Excuses podcast
Presentation
Hosted by	Mary Robinette Kowal Dan Wells Brandon Sanderson Howard Tayler
Genre	Writing Science fiction Fantasy Horror
Updates	active
Publication
Original release	02/10/2008

Writing Excuses is a podcast hosted by authors Dan Wells, Brandon Sanderson, Mary Robinette Kowal, and author and web cartoonist Howard Tayler.

Promoted as "fifteen minutes long, because you're in a hurry, and we're not that smart",^[1] the four hosts and guests discuss different topics involved in the creation and production of genre writing and webcomics. As of 2017, authors Wesley Chu, Piper J. Drake and Mary Anne Mohanraj were added as secondary hosts, each having one show a month alongside different configurations of the primary hosts.^[2]