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Shooting The Shit About 1.7 million on Day One
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An Editorial Director on Books with Hooks
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Shooting The Shit With Special Guest Regina Brooks
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Believing in Your Worth Despite Being Rejected Over 250 Times
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October Bonus Episode
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Your Job Is to Seduce, Not Explain
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Shooting the Shit Featuring Guest Literary Agent Ashley Lopez
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Everything You Write Is Both a One-Star Review and a Tattoo
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Shooting the Shit With CeCe's Former Co-Workers Turned Bestie
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Delivering on the DNA of the Book
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Shooting The Shit About People of Publishing
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Insights From Imbolo Mbue and Patrick Ryan
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September Bonus Episode
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When Hell Freezes Over
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Shooting The Shit About The AI Creativity Loop And Book Emergencies
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Writing Insights From the Greats: Isabelle Allende and Jodi Picoult
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Shooting the Shit About The End of Nonfiction And Immersive Trends In Fiction
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An Acquiring Editor on Books With Hooks
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Shooting the Shit About Advance Sizes and E-Learning Economics
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In Conversation with Editor and Author
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August Bonus Episode
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The Secret to a Five-Star Query Letter
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Shooting the Shit About "The Put Down, Pick Up Test"
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Author Insights from Hank Phillippi Ryan, Linwood Barclay and Laura Moriarty
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Shooting the Shit About Author Events and Memoirs That Sell
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Fight! Fight! Fight!
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Shooting The Shit About Cancelled Auctions and AI Inevitability
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Author Insights From Chris Bohjalian, Bailey Hannah and Tarah DeWitt
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Shooting The Shit About AI Accusations & New Rules For Agents
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Worldbuilding Without Confusing Readers
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July Bonus Episode
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The Writing Trick That Landed Five Agent Offers
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Shooting the Shit About The Life and Death of Critical Thinking
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Beginning With The Three Cs
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Shooting the Shit With Special Guest Alia Hanna Habib
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The First Guest on Books With Hooks is Publishing! & The Protagonist as an Outsider
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Shooting the Shit About Trends—And Why You Do (And Don't) Need Them—Solo With Carly
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Leveraging Surprise and Disruption
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June Bonus Episode
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It's the Rewriting That Makes You an Author
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Shooting the Shit About AI Reading Companions and Debriefing Last Week's Episode
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Finding the Heart of the Story
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Shooting The Shit About Author/AI Pain Points With NYT bestseller Andrea Bartz
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Writing Dialogue That Carries the Entire Scene and How Voice Can Make or Break Your Novel
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Shooting the Shit About Agent Financial Details, Imprint Mergers and Risks of a Top Heavy Industry
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Layers of Psychological Processing
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Shooting the Shit About Agent Financial Details, Imprint Mergers and Risks of a Top Heavy Industry
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Successfully Pitching at Conferences
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May Bonus Episode
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Sneaky Prologues That Sizzle
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Shooting the Shit About Agent Scams and When A Book Is Truly Ready To Go
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Taking Big Risks That Pay Off & Breaking the Rules With Intentionality
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Shooting the Shit About Professional Development and the Power of the Agent "Fit"
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The Craft of Specificity: Why Vague Kills Queries
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Shooting The Shit About Expectations in Agent Author Relationships and Who Gets To Go On Book Tour
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Author Insights from Mai Nguyen, Lindsay Wong and Laurie Frankel
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April Bonus Episode
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When Intrigue Turns Into Confusion
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Shooting the Shit About What Agents Do All Day
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How to Build a Protagonist Who Actually Makes Sense
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Shooting The Shit About Changes to the NYT Bestseller List and Editors Allegedly Using AI
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Plugging in Mental Modules
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Shooting the Shit About Cancelled Books and the Shy Girl AI Discourse
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Insights from Beth O'Leary and Kate Hilton
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March Bonus Episode
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Comp Titles That Make Agents Go...Hmm
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Shooting the Shit About Your Response to Last Week's Episode and What Can Be Copyrighted
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The Secret Behind Immersive Worlds
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Shooting the Shit About High Brow vs. Low Brow and Editors Who Hate Their Jobs
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When Characters Collide with Conflict
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Shooting the Shit About Sending The Elevator Back Down And Paying It Forward With Blurbs
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Insights from Lisa Unger
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Shooting the Shit About Memoirs That Sell and The Publicity Delusion
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Double Hooks & Power Imbalances
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February Bonus Episode
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The Anatomy of an Opening
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Shooting The Shit About Our Publishing Pet Peeves and What To Do When Your One “Yes” Is A “No”
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How to Make Agents Curious While Also Impressing Them With Your Line Level Writing
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Shooting the Shit About Editors Quiet Quitting and the Unpaid Labour of Agents
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The Long Game of Publishing
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Shooting The Shit About Auctions, *That* Post, and The Right Resources
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When the Past Won't Stay Buried: Building Dark Psychological Thrillers
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January Bonus Episode
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The Infinite Options of Where to Begin
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Shooting the Shit About What Carly and CeCe Want To Fix In The Publishing Industry and (of course!) Heated Rivalry
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The Mechanics of Great Storytelling
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Shooting the Shit About The Easiest Genres to Sell and How Agents Impact The Outcomes of Book Deals
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Perfecting the Page One Experience
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Shooting the Shit About Your Deepest and Darkest Book Money Questions PART TWO
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Big Auction Debuts and What Brings You Back to the Page
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December Bonus Episode
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The Job of a Disruption
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Shooting the Shit About Your Deepest and Darkest Book Money Questions: PART ONE
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The Evolution of a Novel
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Shooting the Shit About How Much Agents Share
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Quiet Stories, Big Stakes
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Shooting the Shit: About the hidden side of best-of-year lists, AI worries, and the "midlist bestseller"
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Plotting With Fate
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Shooting the Shit: About agent burnout and the problems facing small publishers and booksellers
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The Pinball Effect in Fiction
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