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
Murder, Metafiction, and Query Letter Mayhem (13.11.2025)
Previous Episodes
- Shooting the Shit Live From LA! About Page to Screen and NaNoWriMo
- Success after 800 Rejections!
- Shooting the Shit About Winning Author Mindsets and Agent Submission Timelines
- When Reality TV Meets Cli-Fi: Hooks, Depth, and the Dreaded Coincidence
- October Bonus Episode
- For The Love of Writing
- Shooting the Shit: About publishing’s ghosting problem and when sales are “not good”
- Balancing Emotional Depth and Action In Your Story
- Shooting the Shit: About digital first book deals and negative experiences with writers' contests.
- Insights from Marjan Kamali and Kirsten Miller
- Shooting the Shit About External Publicity, Publishing in the age of Kickstarter, and the alleged gambling problem
- Untangling Complex Queries: Writing with Clarity Across Timelines
- September Bonus Episode
- Plausibility: Serendipity and Kismet vs. Coincidence
- Shooting the Shit Live From New York!
- How to Find The Hook in Your Book
- Shooting The Shit: About book blurb culture, how to sell a book in a “tough category” and the Anthropic Settlement
- Intentionality! Intentionality! Intentionality!
- Shooting the Shit: Why the industry publishes so many (too many!) books and how to spot a writerly phishing scam
- Pitch Perfect
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