Shipping & Handling

In which Bridget and Jen discuss copyright law, plagiarism, and why published authors won’t read your fic, for legal reasons. Also! Cookbook photography, dead parents in YA, and more! 

Thanks to this week’s donors: Lorna, Lauren, Jared, and MH! 

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Discussed in this episode:

Copy/Paste Cris 
A Feud in Wolf-King Erotica Raises A Deep Legal Question by Alexandra Alter
Arkady Martine - A Memory Called Empire
Tamsyn Muir - Gideon The Ninth
Ngaio Marsh - Enter A Murderer
Carrie S. Allen - Michigan Vs. The Boys
Meryl Wilsner - Something To Talk About
Amanda Sellet - By The Book
Lee Gjertsen Malone - Camp Shady Crook

Direct download: EPISODE_76.mp3
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In this episode Bridget and Jen talk *waves vaguely* the State Of Things, UK vs ANZ vs US, and how many clients is too many! 

**ANNOUNCEMENT!!** We'll be answering your questions on a very special Instagram Live session on Thursday, May 7 at 7pm EST! 

Thanks to this week's donors, Sue, Joy, and Michael! 

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Discussed in this episode:

bookshop.org 
Tamsin Muir - Gideon the Ninth
Ken Dryden - The Game
Lucy Ellman - Ducks, Newburyport 

Direct download: EPISODE_75.mp3
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In this episodes, Bridget and Jen talk bad contracts, manuscript requests, how to avoid brown-nosing and more! 

Thanks to our editor, Cheyna Roth, for her help with this episode!

A VERY SPECIAL THANKS to our donor Jessica!!!!!

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Discussed in this episode:

Margot Rabb - Kissing In America
Frances Mary Hendry - Quest for a Maid
Nancy Atherton - Aunt Dimity’s Death 

Direct download: EPISODE_73.mp3
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In this episode Bridget and Jen discuss *waves vaguely* The Situation, the Simon & Schuster sale, living with our parents, and cheaply priced Texas ciders.  (Hit us up, Austin EastCider!) 

Thanks to our editor, Cheyna Roth, for her help with this episode!

A VERY SPECIAL THANKS to our donors Awesome Shades Anon and March!

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Discussed in this episode:

Simon & Schuster is Up for Sale by Edmund Lee and Alexandra Alter
Webinar: How to Make Progress When Sh*t Is Dire by GetBullish/Jen Dziura
Lyssa Kay Adams - The Bromance Book Club
Patricia Wrede & Carolyn Stevermer - Sorcery & Cecilia
Sarah Dessen - Once and For All
Robert Jackson Bennet - Foundryside 

Direct download: EPISODE_72.mp3
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In this episode, Bridget and Jen discuss career planning or the occasional impossibility thereof, catch up on thanking donors, and generally continue the discussion from Episode 70! 

A VERY SPECIAL THANKS to our wonderful backlog of donors! Jenn, Andrew, Lana, Kristen, Joy, Teresa, MH, Cool Shades Anon, Ruth, and Hamilton! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!! 

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Discussed in this episode: 

Miss Fisher & The Crypt of Tears
Eyes Up, Writers by Maggie Stiefvater
C
huck Wendig - Wanderers

Ellen Goodlett - Rule
Ellen Goodlett - Rise
Emily Duncan - Wicked Saints
Francisco A. Flores - Tears of the Truffle-Pig
Roberto Bolaño - 2666

Direct download: EPISODE_71.mp3
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In this episode, recorded on Jan. 22 after a *coughcough* three month involuntary hiatus, Bridget and Jen discuss realistic expectations, the American Dirt fiasco, the RWA fiasco, and picking up the can. 

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Discussed in this episode: 

Amanda J. Sellet - By The Book
People are calling out “American Dirt” with this meme 
How To Push Past The Bullshit and Write That Goddamn Novel: A Very Simple No-Fuckery Writing Plan To Get Shit Done by Chuck Wendig 

Julia Drake - The Last True Poets Of The Sea
Susan Casey - The Wave: In Pursuit of the Monsters of the Ocean
The Deep Sea by Neal Agarwal 
M
aureen Johnson - The Hand On The Wall

Amor Towles - A Gentleman in Moscow
Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone - This Is How You Lose The Time War

 

Direct download: EPISODE_70.mp3
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In this episode, recorded back in *coughcough* November, Bridget and Jen do an all-questions-all-the-time deep dive into our Tumblr inbox. Among other things we discuss sex in YA, the relative value of an MFA, and disclosure of advances. This episode is so outdated that the RWA is barely an organization anymore and one of the agents mentioned is no longer agenting! 

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Discussed in this episode: 

Leigh Bardugo - The Ninth House 
Noah Lukerman - The First Five Pages: The Writer’s Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile 
MSWL Manuscript Academy
Emily Tesh - Silver in the Wood
Casey McQuiston - Red White & Royal Blue
Eve Babitz - I Used To Be Charming: The Rest of Eve Babitz 
Erin Morgenstern - The Starless Sea 

Direct download: EPISODE_69.mp3
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