Bianca Marais

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5,233 appearances 41 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 3d ago

Bianca Marais’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 41 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 9.

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The Shit No One Tells You About Writing · The Writing Trick That Landed Five Agent Offers · 23 Jul 2026 podcast

Because if you find the right agent, it is such an intense relationship, right? voice-verified

You are constantly making yourself vulnerable with this person more than you probably are with best friends in your career. voice-verified

And so it is a big deal when that happens. voice-verified

to the yeah you go okay I've I've done so many books it's not going to be a problem to find an agent and it's still difficult but I really want to say for our listeners out there do not go well Molly just put together a proposal and she got an agent so I'm going to do that you can only do that when you have the chops and when you've got that writing experience right I mean imagine you doing that as a debut Molly no you know and it's so interesting we when I sent out the voice-verified

Sometimes more than a couple. voice-verified

Almost always more than a couple. voice-verified

Never actually just once. voice-verified

Just a couple. voice-verified

So, and again, what you've said about the younger junior agent is so important because I think so many people are like, this is my dream agent. voice-verified

I want this top agent, right? voice-verified

And they are so busy. voice-verified

They've got their existing clients for them to take on new clients means they don't have much time. voice-verified

To spend with a new client. voice-verified

And when you have a junior agent who's hungry to prove themselves and is being mentored by a really great senior agent, that's the difference. voice-verified

You don't just want a junior agent who is floundering and no one's taking care of them. voice-verified

You want someone who's really being mentored by someone incredible and someone who is super hungry to work with you. voice-verified

And coming back to that log line, you know, because when you said the vigilante girl gang, framing it that way, because I mean, if you go, there's a group of three women in New York who decide to take things into their own hands, blah, blah, blah. voice-verified

Whereas you call them a vigilante girl gang, boom, you've got the hook and nothing has actually changed except the way you're describing them. voice-verified

You know, writers these days are so savvy. voice-verified

So I was lucky enough a few weeks ago to meet up with a writing group who had formed from some of our deep dive retreats and, you know, chatting to each other on social media. voice-verified

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