The Shit No One Tells You About Writing

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This is a podcast for emerging writers who want to improve the quality of their work and learn more about the publishing industry. Your one host, Bianca Marais ...

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Untangling Complex Queries: Writing with Clarity Across Timelines CeCe Lyra, Bianca Marais, Carly Watters · Oct 2, 2025
September Bonus Episode CeCe Lyra, Bianca Marais, Carly Watters · Sep 29, 2025
Plausibility: Serendipity and Kismet vs. Coincidence CeCe Lyra, Bianca Marais, Carly Watters · Sep 25, 2025
Shooting the Shit Live From New York! CeCe Lyra, Bianca Marais, Carly Watters · Sep 22, 2025
How to Find The Hook in Your Book CeCe Lyra, Bianca Marais, Carly Watters · Sep 18, 2025
Shooting The Shit: About book blurb culture, how to sell a book in a “tough category” and the Anthropic Settlement CeCe Lyra, Bianca Marais, Carly Watters · Sep 15, 2025
Intentionality! Intentionality! Intentionality! CeCe Lyra, Bianca Marais, Carly Watters · Sep 11, 2025
Shooting the Shit: Why the industry publishes so many (too many!) books and how to spot a writerly phishing scam CeCe Lyra, Bianca Marais, Carly Watters · Sep 8, 2025
Pitch Perfect CeCe Lyra, Bianca Marais, Carly Watters · Sep 4, 2025
Shooting The Shit about what agents really think about writer’s conferences, how agents get good at their jobs, and what actually sells books right now CeCe Lyra, Bianca Marais, Carly Watters · Sep 1, 2025
Writing a Voicey Novel CeCe Lyra, Bianca Marais, Carly Watters · Aug 28, 2025
August Bonus Episode CeCe Lyra, Bianca Marais, Carly Watters · Aug 25, 2025
Exploring the Critical to Compassionate Spectrum CeCe Lyra, Bianca Marais, Carly Watters · Aug 21, 2025
Shooting The Shit: CeCe's new job, agent referrals, and what publishers try to get away with when writer's don't have agents CeCe Lyra, Bianca Marais, Carly Watters · Aug 18, 2025
Karin Slaughter and the Mystery of Character and Rachel Howzell Hall on Switching Genres CeCe Lyra, Bianca Marais, Carly Watters · Aug 14, 2025
Shooting The Shit: "AI Slop" affecting books, what summers in publishing look like and hustle culture in the year 2025 CeCe Lyra, Bianca Marais, Carly Watters · Aug 11, 2025
From Audience to Impact: Crafting a Narrative That Connects CeCe Lyra, Bianca Marais, Carly Watters · Aug 7, 2025
Shooting The Shit: About Editors, The "Death" Of The Novel & Authors With The "It" Factor CeCe Lyra, Bianca Marais, Carly Watters · Aug 4, 2025
From Books with Hooks to Published Author-How Writing is Rewriting CeCe Lyra, Bianca Marais, Carly Watters · Jul 31, 2025
July Bonus Episode CeCe Lyra, Bianca Marais, Carly Watters · Jul 28, 2025
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CeCe Lyra 23 Bianca Marais 23 Carly Watters 21

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This is a podcast for emerging writers who want to improve the quality of their work and learn more about the publishing industry. Your one host, Bianca Marais (the bestselling author of 'The Witches of Moonshyne Manor') interviews authors, agents, editors and just about anyone and everyone who's involved in bringing a book to market. She's joined by her cohosts, literary agents Ca...

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