Carly Waters

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680 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 6 Jul

Carly Waters’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Shit No One Tells You About Writing · Shooting the Shit About Trends—And Why You Do (And Don't) Need Them—Solo With Carly · 6 Jul 2026 podcast

I can give this presentation and somebody will still say, but like, like I really, like actually tell me what's trending.

Okay.

Here's the good news.

If you're actually consuming media, watching the news, looking at art, engaging with social media, reading books, going into stores, you're fine.

You already know what is trending in our culture.

The bad news is I'm never going to tell you that a specific hyper new genre is trending because tomorrow it might not be.

And that's not fair to you.

When I look at sales data and I talk to editors, I'm looking for patterns.

I'm not looking for flash in the pan genres.

I'm paying attention to culture, but I don't need you guys to become a publishing trend forecaster.

You listen to our show.

If you want my job, you come do my job.

But if you want to be a writer, you can just tune into the show and I'll give you everything you need to know.

So keep writing on your own terms, stay in your lane, focus on your craft.

And that is it.

This is the playbook insight.

And I will see you guys for our next episode.

If you would like more where that came from, of course, you could use the pod 15 discount code at checkout so that you can get my entire course over at carlywaters.com slash course.

That's P O D one five for 15% off.

The course is really built for those of you that don't want to spend time combing the entire internet for writing and publishing advice.

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