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The Shit No One Tells You About Writing — 49 episodes
Shooting the Shit About Author Events and Memoirs That Sell
Fight! Fight! Fight!
Shooting The Shit About Cancelled Auctions and AI Inevitability
Author Insights From Chris Bohjalian, Bailey Hannah and Tarah DeWitt
Shooting The Shit About AI Accusations & New Rules For Agents
Worldbuilding Without Confusing Readers
July Bonus Episode
The Writing Trick That Landed Five Agent Offers
Shooting the Shit About The Life and Death of Critical Thinking
Beginning With The Three Cs
Shooting the Shit With Special Guest Alia Hanna Habib
The First Guest on Books With Hooks is Publishing! & The Protagonist as an Outsider
Shooting the Shit About Trends—And Why You Do (And Don't) Need Them—Solo With Carly
Leveraging Surprise and Disruption
June Bonus Episode
It's the Rewriting That Makes You an Author
Shooting the Shit About AI Reading Companions and Debriefing Last Week's Episode
Finding the Heart of the Story
Shooting The Shit About Author/AI Pain Points With NYT bestseller Andrea Bartz
Writing Dialogue That Carries the Entire Scene and How Voice Can Make or Break Your Novel
Shooting the Shit About Agent Financial Details, Imprint Mergers and Risks of a Top Heavy Industry
Layers of Psychological Processing
Shooting the Shit About Agent Financial Details, Imprint Mergers and Risks of a Top Heavy Industry
Successfully Pitching at Conferences
May Bonus Episode
Sneaky Prologues That Sizzle
Shooting the Shit About Agent Scams and When A Book Is Truly Ready To Go
Taking Big Risks That Pay Off & Breaking the Rules With Intentionality
Shooting the Shit About Professional Development and the Power of the Agent "Fit"
The Craft of Specificity: Why Vague Kills Queries
Shooting The Shit About Expectations in Agent Author Relationships and Who Gets To Go On Book Tour
Author Insights from Mai Nguyen, Lindsay Wong and Laurie Frankel
April Bonus Episode
When Intrigue Turns Into Confusion
Shooting the Shit About What Agents Do All Day
How to Build a Protagonist Who Actually Makes Sense
Shooting The Shit About Changes to the NYT Bestseller List and Editors Allegedly Using AI
Plugging in Mental Modules
Shooting the Shit About Cancelled Books and the Shy Girl AI Discourse
Insights from Beth O'Leary and Kate Hilton
March Bonus Episode
Comp Titles That Make Agents Go...Hmm
Shooting the Shit About Your Response to Last Week's Episode and What Can Be Copyrighted
The Secret Behind Immersive Worlds
Shooting the Shit About High Brow vs. Low Brow and Editors Who Hate Their Jobs
When Characters Collide with Conflict
Shooting the Shit About Sending The Elevator Back Down And Paying It Forward With Blurbs
Insights from Lisa Unger
Bumper October Bonus Episode