Bianca Marais

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5,725 appearances 42 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard yesterday

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 — 42 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 9.

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The Shit No One Tells You About Writing · Author Insights From Chris Bohjalian, Bailey Hannah and Tarah DeWitt · 6 Aug 2026 podcast

It really is incredible. voice-verified

I just thought you'd spent like weeks just on that opening chapter because it was just so amazing what you managed to cram in and it just came out. voice-verified

It's amazing. voice-verified

So one last question. voice-verified

So Chris, I speak to a lot of women writers and we often... voice-verified

sort of expressed frustration that we as women writers are expected to be on social media, we're expected constantly to be engaging with our readers, and a lot of male authors don't. voice-verified

And this has been proved on our Substack. voice-verified

So on our, we've also got the shit no one tells you about writing Substack, and we profile a lot of male authors. voice-verified

And then when the time comes to tag them on social media, voice-verified

that we're sharing the article, we cannot find them on social media because they are not there. voice-verified

You are the exact opposite of that. voice-verified

You make yourself so available to your fans. voice-verified

In fact, I'm giving a shout out now to Carmela DeVito, who must be one of your biggest fans. voice-verified

She absolutely adores you. voice-verified

And besides the fact that you are open to speaking about your books, I love seeing you on threads. voice-verified

standing up for women writers, giving shout outs to them, just being a good literary citizen. voice-verified

So can you just say something to encourage male authors to like do the same, please? voice-verified

community yeah we are big on community and we are also really big on literary citizenship okay so i'm holding up the book again the amateur we're linking to it on our bookshop.org affiliate page get it there you can support an independent bookstore the podcast at the same time this book is a master class in so many different things it doesn't matter what genre you're writing what genre you prefer reading get it read it study it chris thank you so much for joining us voice-verified

Thank you so much. voice-verified

And that's it for today's episode. voice-verified

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