Today's episode is a quick update about our summer hiatus and a thank you to our listeners for tuning in and joining our community. We share some standout resources from Season 1 and the dishes and books we are planning to dive into for our summer meals.

Kate and Kristin chat with the Marketing and Publicity Manager of Hardie Grant, Lorraine Woodcheke, to learn more about what goes on in the secretive world of marketing.

Andrea and Molly chat with journalist and food writer Charlotte Druckman to find out more about what it means to create "good" work and how to measure success.

Kate and Andrea chat with cookbook critic Paula Forbes whose reviews have run in Eater, Epicurious, Lucky Peach and Food52.

Molly leads today's discussion with Andrea, Kate and Kristin through the opaque world of book sales.

Molly and Kristin have a quick chat with surprise guest, Jenna Kutcher. Jenna is a photographer, podcaster, entrepreneur and her debut book "How are you Really?" is available now

On today's episode Molly, Andrea, Kristin and Kate sit down to answer listener submitted questions.

Molly and Kate chat about food writing with Dianne Jacob, freelance writing coach, editor and the author of "Will Write for Food".

Kate starts off today's chat recounting some event horror stories while Kristin, Molly and Andrea chime in with some of their own.

Kristin learns more about life behind the lens as she interviews author, photographer, and food stylist Yossy Arefi.

Kristin leads today's conversation about photography, its importance in the world of cookbooks and how it can bring a book to life.

Molly gets more insight into the cookbook design process as she talks with Alice Chau, former Senior Designer at Chronicle Books and now independent designer and art director.

Molly leads a conversation about the book design process, one of the more mystifying stops on a cookbook's journey to publication.

Andrea dives further into the editing process during her interview with Jennifer Sit, Executive Editor at Clarkson Potter which is an imprint of Penguin Random House.

Andrea leads today's deep dive into the editing stage of cookbook creation.

With insights from best selling author Michelle Tam, Andrea digs into how to craft recipes that involve pictures more than words. They also discuss how race and history figures into recipe writing.

Kristin gets into the fundamentals of recipe writing as she chats with Tina Ujlaki, her mentor and the former executive editor at Food & Wine magazine.

Kate leads today's discussion about the recipe development, curation and testing that go into creating a cookbook.

Andrea leads today's chat about selling a cookbook and all the nitty gritty elements that go into it.

Kristin leads today's discussion all about the cookbook proposal, sharing her own first experience with the process.