Jul 16, 2026 · 51 min · 12 segments
Longtime friend of the show and recent literary sensation Stephen Fishbach made his worlds collide with his debut novel Escape! - he joins Dom in the spoiler zone to talk through the whole authorial…
Stephen FishbachGuest
Dom HarveyHost
it's so crazy i just started work um on a a story like my next what i what i imagine is gonna be my next potentially novel it'll be a short novel
long novel um And, like, in my mind, I was last revising it, like, three months ago or six months ago, maybe.
And that's because I've been, like, so uniformly fixated on Escape, both with, you know, the endless revisions that the, you know, publication process entail.
I was, like... doing marketing promotion for like like a year almost like truly a year um and and like basically as a full-time job now it worked out great like people were so wonderful enthusiastic they bought the book it did really well so i i mean that was a year well spent but it's still like very strange now to sort of be stepping you know i just as i mentioned to you just now like i haven't really talked about this book in weeks when it was all i was talking about for a year of my life And so it's like kind of nice.
It's nice to move on, but it's also nice to be standing here where I can sort of like think about the book in a way that's outside of the, you know, the publicity maelstrom.
Because the day that my book was off my local bookstore's new releases shelves, it was a gut punch.
And I think that it's the same as when the new cast is announced and you're like, well...
Like, here I am, like, still like, no, remember me? I'm from a past season of books.
There is sort of like a literary ecosystem that's a little bit like the reality TV ecosystem where you're like, we former authors will now, like, buoy the new, you know, talk about the new books.
it's so crazy i just started work um on a a story like my next what i what i imagine is gonna be my next potentially novel it'll be a short novel
long novel um And, like, in my mind, I was last revising it, like, three months ago or six months ago, maybe.
And that's because I've been, like, so uniformly fixated on Escape, both with, you know, the endless revisions that the, you know, publication process entail.
I was, like... doing marketing promotion for like like a year almost like truly a year um and and like basically as a full-time job now it worked out great like people were so wonderful enthusiastic they bought the book it did really well so i i mean that was a year well spent but it's still like very strange now to sort of be stepping you know i just as i mentioned to you just now like i haven't really talked about this book in weeks when it was all i was talking about for a year of my life And so it's like kind of nice.
It's nice to move on, but it's also nice to be standing here where I can sort of like think about the book in a way that's outside of the, you know, the publicity maelstrom.
Because the day that my book was off my local bookstore's new releases shelves, it was a gut punch.
And I think that it's the same as when the new cast is announced and you're like, well...
Like, here I am, like, still like, no, remember me? I'm from a past season of books.
There is sort of like a literary ecosystem that's a little bit like the reality TV ecosystem where you're like, we former authors will now, like, buoy the new, you know, talk about the new books.
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