The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
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 Carly Watters and CeCe Lyra from P.S. Literary Agency, who read and critique query letters as well as opening pages in their Books with Hooks segment. Expect good advice, honest insights, and a few laughs along the way.
Latest Episode
The Mechanics of Great Storytelling (15.01.2026)
Previous Episodes
- Shooting the Shit About The Easiest Genres to Sell and How Agents Impact The Outcomes of Book Deals
- Perfecting the Page One Experience
- Shooting the Shit About Your Deepest and Darkest Book Money Questions PART TWO
- Big Auction Debuts and What Brings You Back to the Page
- December Bonus Episode
- The Job of a Disruption
- Shooting the Shit About Your Deepest and Darkest Book Money Questions: PART ONE
- The Evolution of a Novel
- Shooting the Shit About How Much Agents Share
- Quiet Stories, Big Stakes
- Shooting the Shit: About the hidden side of best-of-year lists, AI worries, and the "midlist bestseller"
- Plotting With Fate
- Shooting the Shit: About agent burnout and the problems facing small publishers and booksellers
- The Pinball Effect in Fiction
- November Bonus Episode
- When Writing Gets Personal: Two Authors on Vulnerability and Voice
- Shooting the Shit...Live from Hawaii! About turning down offers and how best to work with your literary agent.
- Murder, Metafiction, and Query Letter Mayhem
- Shooting the Shit Live From LA! About Page to Screen and NaNoWriMo
- Success after 800 Rejections!
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