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Shooting the Shit — episodes
Part 1
"AI Slop" affecting books, what summers in publishing look like and hustle culture in the year 2025
CeCe's new job, agent referrals, and what publishers try to get away with when writer's don't have agents
What agents really think about writer’s conferences, how agents get good at their jobs, and what actually sells books right now
Why the industry publishes so many books and how to spot a writerly phishing scam
Book blurb culture, tough categories, and the Anthropic Settlement
Live From New York
External Publicity, Publishing in the Age of Kickstarter, and the Alleged Gambling Problem
Digital First Book Deals and Negative Experiences with Writers' Contests
Publishing’s Ghosting Problem and When Sales Are Not Good
Winning Author Mindsets and Agent Submission Timelines
Live From LA, Page to Screen and NaNoWriMo
Live from Hawaii, Turning Down Offers and Working with Your Literary Agent
Agent Burnout and Problems Facing Small Publishers and Booksellers
Best-of-Year Lists, AI Worries, and the Midlist Bestseller
How Much Agents Share
Your Deepest and Darkest Book Money Questions, Part One
Your Deepest and Darkest Book Money Questions, Part Two
The Easiest Genres to Sell and How Agents Impact Book Deals
What Carly and CeCe Want to Fix in Publishing
Auctions, That Post, and the Right Resources
Editors Quiet Quitting and the Unpaid Labour of Agents
Publishing Pet Peeves and What to Do When Your One Yes Is a No
Memoirs That Sell and the Publicity Delusion
Sending the Elevator Back Down and Paying It Forward with Blurbs
High Brow vs. Low Brow and Editors Who Hate Their Jobs
Your Response to Last Week's Episode and What Can Be Copyrighted
Cancelled Books and the Shy Girl AI Discourse
Changes to the NYT Bestseller List and Editors Allegedly Using AI
What Agents Do All Day
Expectations in Agent Author Relationships and Who Gets to Go on Book Tour
Professional Development and the Power of the Agent Fit