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Shooting the Shit About Memoirs That Sell and The Publicity Delusion
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Double Hooks & Power Imbalances
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February Bonus Episode
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The Anatomy of an Opening
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Shooting The Shit About Our Publishing Pet Peeves and What To Do When Your One “Yes” Is A “No”
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How to Make Agents Curious While Also Impressing Them With Your Line Level Writing
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Shooting the Shit About Editors Quiet Quitting and the Unpaid Labour of Agents
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The Long Game of Publishing
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Shooting The Shit About Auctions, *That* Post, and The Right Resources
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When the Past Won't Stay Buried: Building Dark Psychological Thrillers
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January Bonus Episode
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The Infinite Options of Where to Begin
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Shooting the Shit About What Carly and CeCe Want To Fix In The Publishing Industry and (of course!) Heated Rivalry
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The Mechanics of Great Storytelling
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Shooting the Shit About The Easiest Genres to Sell and How Agents Impact The Outcomes of Book Deals
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Perfecting the Page One Experience
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Shooting the Shit About Your Deepest and Darkest Book Money Questions PART TWO
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Big Auction Debuts and What Brings You Back to the Page
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December Bonus Episode
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The Job of a Disruption
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Shooting the Shit About Your Deepest and Darkest Book Money Questions: PART ONE
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The Evolution of a Novel
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Shooting the Shit About How Much Agents Share
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Quiet Stories, Big Stakes
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Shooting the Shit: About the hidden side of best-of-year lists, AI worries, and the "midlist bestseller"
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Plotting With Fate
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Shooting the Shit: About agent burnout and the problems facing small publishers and booksellers
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The Pinball Effect in Fiction
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November Bonus Episode
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When Writing Gets Personal: Two Authors on Vulnerability and Voice
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Shooting the Shit...Live from Hawaii! About turning down offers and how best to work with your literary agent.
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Murder, Metafiction, and Query Letter Mayhem
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Shooting the Shit Live From LA! About Page to Screen and NaNoWriMo
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Success after 800 Rejections!
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Shooting the Shit About Winning Author Mindsets and Agent Submission Timelines
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When Reality TV Meets Cli-Fi: Hooks, Depth, and the Dreaded Coincidence
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October Bonus Episode
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For The Love of Writing
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Shooting the Shit: About publishing’s ghosting problem and when sales are “not good”
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Balancing Emotional Depth and Action In Your Story
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Shooting the Shit: About digital first book deals and negative experiences with writers' contests.
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Insights from Marjan Kamali and Kirsten Miller
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Shooting the Shit About External Publicity, Publishing in the age of Kickstarter, and the alleged gambling problem
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Untangling Complex Queries: Writing with Clarity Across Timelines
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September Bonus Episode
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Plausibility: Serendipity and Kismet vs. Coincidence
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Shooting the Shit Live From New York!
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How to Find The Hook in Your Book
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Shooting The Shit: About book blurb culture, how to sell a book in a “tough category” and the Anthropic Settlement
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Intentionality! Intentionality! Intentionality!
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Shooting the Shit: Why the industry publishes so many (too many!) books and how to spot a writerly phishing scam
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Pitch Perfect
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Shooting The Shit about what agents really think about writer’s conferences, how agents get good at their jobs, and what actually sells book
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Writing a Voicey Novel
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August Bonus Episode
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Exploring the Critical to Compassionate Spectrum
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Shooting The Shit: CeCe's new job, agent referrals, and what publishers try to get away with when writer's don't have agents
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Karin Slaughter and the Mystery of Character and Rachel Howzell Hall on Switching Genres
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Shooting The Shit: "AI Slop" affecting books, what summers in publishing look like and hustle culture in the year 2025
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From Audience to Impact: Crafting a Narrative That Connects
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Shooting The Shit: About Editors, The "Death" Of The Novel & Authors With The "It" Factor
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From Books with Hooks to Published Author-How Writing is Rewriting
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July Bonus Episode
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Making Context Feel Organic
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Shooting The Shit
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How Setting is More Than Just Story Backdrop
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What is a familiar query letter...
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Replacing Plot with Emotion in Quiet Novels
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June Bonus Episode
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Emotions—But Make It Messy
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How Withholding Backstory and Context Can Actually Elevate A Story
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One of the Best Hooks We’ve Had on a BWH Segment
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Bianca and CeCe Discuss The Real Sh*t No One Tells You About Writing
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Concrete vs. Abstract Curiosity
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May Bonus Episode
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How a Books With Hooks Query Became a Buzzy Debut
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Leaning into Illustrator Notes & CeCe Not Minding a But, But
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Nuggets of Wisdom from Carley Fortune and Sue Hincenbergs
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The Problem with the Blank Canvas Protagonist
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April Bonus Episode
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An Ingenious Query Hack
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Why Plot and Specificity are a Query Letter's Best Friends
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Ann Napolitano on Overcoming Rejection and Despair as Part of the Writing Life & Kirthana Ramisetti on The Art of Foreshadowing
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Stage Directions, Opening and How to Avoid Them
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March Bonus Episode
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The Evolution of a Novel: Learning to Let Go
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It's a Vibe: Plot Points & Emotional Vibes in Storytelling
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Knowing the Shape of Your Story
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Using the 'Micro to Macro' Hack
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Those Aha Moments That Arrive at the 80 000-Word Mark
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February Bonus Episode
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Delving Deeply Into Your Antagonist's Psyche
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The Stories We Tell Ourselves to Make Them More Palatable
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What is Literary Burlesque and Can You Perform It?
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Capturing Your Character’s Voice by Deeply Immersing Yourself in Their Perspective
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January Bonus Episode Comp Titles Segment
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CeCe Swipes Carly’s Submission
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Exploring How a Single Choice Can Define an Entire Life
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A Query That Ticks all of CeCe’s Psychological Acuity Boxes
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Playing to Your Strengths as a Writer
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