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
Shooting the Shit: Why the industry publishes so many (too many!) books and how to spot a writerly phishing scam (08.09.2025)
Previous Episodes
- Pitch Perfect 04.09.2025
- 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 01.09.2025
- Writing a Voicey Novel 28.08.2025
- August Bonus Episode 25.08.2025
- Exploring the Critical to Compassionate Spectrum 21.08.2025
- Shooting The Shit: CeCe's new job, agent referrals, and what publishers try to get away with when writer's don't have agents 18.08.2025
- Karin Slaughter and the Mystery of Character and Rachel Howzell Hall on Switching Genres 14.08.2025
- Shooting The Shit: "AI Slop" affecting books, what summers in publishing look like and hustle culture in the year 2025 11.08.2025
- From Audience to Impact: Crafting a Narrative That Connects 07.08.2025
- Shooting The Shit: About Editors, The "Death" Of The Novel & Authors With The "It" Factor 04.08.2025
- From Books with Hooks to Published Author-How Writing is Rewriting 31.07.2025
- July Bonus Episode 28.07.2025
- Making Context Feel Organic 24.07.2025
- Shooting The Shit 21.07.2025
- How Setting is More Than Just Story Backdrop 17.07.2025
- What is a familiar query letter... 10.07.2025
- Replacing Plot with Emotion in Quiet Novels 03.07.2025
- June Bonus Episode 30.06.2025
- Emotions—But Make It Messy 26.06.2025
- How Withholding Backstory and Context Can Actually Elevate A Story 19.06.2025
