Shooting The Shit About Our Publishing Pet Peeves and What To Do When Your One “Yes” Is A “No”
The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
46:42Feb 16, 2026
The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
388 episodes
How to Make Agents Curious While Also Impressing Them With Your Line Level Writing
The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
48:27Feb 12, 2026
Shooting the Shit About Editors Quiet Quitting and the Unpaid Labour of Agents
The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
42:44Feb 9, 2026
The Long Game of Publishing
The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
53:44Feb 5, 2026
Shooting The Shit About Auctions, *That* Post, and The Right Resources
The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
40:35Feb 2, 2026
When the Past Won't Stay Buried: Building Dark Psychological Thrillers
The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
30:55Jan 29, 2026
January Bonus Episode
The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
54:27Jan 26, 2026
The Infinite Options of Where to Begin
The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
44:29Jan 22, 2026
Shooting the Shit About What Carly and CeCe Want To Fix In The Publishing Industry and (of course!) Heated Rivalry
The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
52:35Jan 19, 2026
The Mechanics of Great Storytelling
The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
58:16Jan 15, 2026
Shooting the Shit About The Easiest Genres to Sell and How Agents Impact The Outcomes of Book Deals
The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
40:06Jan 12, 2026
Perfecting the Page One Experience
The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
43:48Jan 8, 2026
Shooting the Shit About Your Deepest and Darkest Book Money Questions PART TWO
The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
32:52Jan 5, 2026
Big Auction Debuts and What Brings You Back to the Page
The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
1:01:34Jan 1, 2026
December Bonus Episode
The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
1:39:48Dec 29, 2025
The Job of a Disruption
The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
42:20Dec 25, 2025
Shooting the Shit About Your Deepest and Darkest Book Money Questions: PART ONE
The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
38:08Dec 22, 2025
The Evolution of a Novel
The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
30:20Dec 18, 2025
Shooting the Shit About How Much Agents Share
The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
47:20Dec 15, 2025
Quiet Stories, Big Stakes
The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
38:30Dec 11, 2025
Shooting the Shit: About the hidden side of best-of-year lists, AI worries, and the "midlist bestseller"
The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
35:53Dec 8, 2025
Plotting With Fate
The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
36:42Dec 4, 2025
Shooting the Shit: About agent burnout and the problems facing small publishers and booksellers
The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
36:35Dec 1, 2025
The Pinball Effect in Fiction
The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
22:01Nov 27, 2025
November Bonus Episode
The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
51:37Nov 24, 2025
When Writing Gets Personal: Two Authors on Vulnerability and Voice
The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
1:19:15Nov 20, 2025
Shooting the Shit...Live from Hawaii! About turning down offers and how best to work with your literary agent.
The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
24:59Nov 17, 2025
Murder, Metafiction, and Query Letter Mayhem
The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
43:43Nov 13, 2025
Shooting the Shit Live From LA! About Page to Screen and NaNoWriMo
The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
40:04Nov 10, 2025
Success after 800 Rejections!
The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
29:22Nov 6, 2025
Shooting the Shit About Winning Author Mindsets and Agent Submission Timelines
The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
43:37Nov 3, 2025
When Reality TV Meets Cli-Fi: Hooks, Depth, and the Dreaded Coincidence
The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
48:31Oct 30, 2025
October Bonus Episode
The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
27:06Oct 27, 2025
For The Love of Writing
The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
27:21Oct 23, 2025
Shooting the Shit: About publishing’s ghosting problem and when sales are “not good”
The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
28:25Oct 20, 2025
Balancing Emotional Depth and Action In Your Story
The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
44:38Oct 16, 2025
Shooting the Shit: About digital first book deals and negative experiences with writers' contests.
The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
34:25Oct 13, 2025
Insights from Marjan Kamali and Kirsten Miller
The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
1:11:39Oct 9, 2025
Shooting the Shit About External Publicity, Publishing in the age of Kickstarter, and the alleged gambling problem
The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
46:05Oct 6, 2025
Untangling Complex Queries: Writing with Clarity Across Timelines
The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
38:03Oct 2, 2025
September Bonus Episode
The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
1:06:19Sep 29, 2025
Plausibility: Serendipity and Kismet vs. Coincidence
The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
32:05Sep 25, 2025
Shooting the Shit Live From New York!
The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
29:22Sep 22, 2025
How to Find The Hook in Your Book
The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
46:13Sep 18, 2025
Shooting The Shit: About book blurb culture, how to sell a book in a “tough category” and the Anthropic Settlement
The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
51:47Sep 15, 2025
Intentionality! Intentionality! Intentionality!
The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
30:57Sep 11, 2025
Shooting the Shit: Why the industry publishes so many (too many!) books and how to spot a writerly phishing scam
The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
43:38Sep 8, 2025
Pitch Perfect
The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
35:21Sep 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
The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
46:51Sep 1, 2025
Writing a Voicey Novel
The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
56:06Aug 28, 2025