📑📣New BLF!📣📑
This week we throw BookTok on the pyre and dance around the flames. Meagan sacrificed her wholesome cats and makeup tutorials algorithm just to research this episode for you, dear listener; now it's shadow daddies and Colleen Hoover. You’re welcome! #writesky #podcast #writingcommunity
Have you caught our interview with Isaac Grijalva, author of 6½ DAYS IN THE CITY yet? WHY NOT? We talk friendship, family, bisexual representation, & in this clip, the moment a character finally sees himself. FULL EP HERE: youtu.be/trSbdD_ogm4
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🎆🔥NEW BLF EP - INTERVIEW WITH ISAAC GRIJALVA🔥🎆
This week we interview indie author Isaac Grijalva, whose debut SIX 1/2 DAYS IN THE CITY is out now! We talk queer rep, work-life-study balance, finding inspiration in your own life, and more. LISTEN NOW!
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Oh, and listen to our current episode which features Meagan talking about her problems writing very mild smut and what to do with keeping track of body parts AND WHY ARE THERE SO MANY LEGS. Also we dive into AO3 Heated Rivalry drama in Hot Goss. Listen (again? Promise it's again.)
Book cover for "6 1/2 Days in the City" by Isaac Grijalva. Illustration rather than photograph. Three figures stand with their backs to the reader looking out at a stylized New York City skyline at dusk. The title is written in cursive script in cyan and pink lettering against a deep purple sky. The cityscape features geometric buildings in shades of purple, pink and blue.
🔥🎤BAD LIT FRIENDS INTERVIEW ALERT🎤🔥
Author Isaac Grijalva (isaacgrijalvabooks.com) joins us on our next ep out Friday 4/10 to talk about his fantastic debut 6/12 DAYS IN THE CITY out now! Isaac talks inspiration, craft and his book. We had SO MUCH FUN! #writingcommunity #writesky #podcast #booksky
📚✨NEW BLF✨📚
This week: what do writers owe readers? Plot! Meeting genre expectations! No AI! What readers get to demand? Definitely not harassment but that won't stop some of them! Plus: sex scenes are HARD (but not in a good way) and more Mia Ballard. LISTEN! #writesky #podcast #writingcommunity
Capitalism -- a love story? Not on this week's BAD LIT FRIENDS where we're talking about Mia Ballard's "Shy Girl" and what it says about publishing, authorship, and what we can do as readers and writers to stay authentic in a time of AI slop. Listen! open.spotify.com/episode/7Kze...
💣⚡NEW BAD LIT FRIENDS⚡💣
Yes, this week we're talking Shy Girl as we call out some serious publishing Big Bads: capitalism💰, AI, gendered double standards, racism, classism, and why Mia Ballard is only a symptom, not the disease. Everything sucks so join us!🤢 #writingcommunity #writesky #podcast
NEW BAD LIT FRIENDS is up!!!
This week we're revisiting some of our older Hot Gos stories to see how well they aged. As always, WE HAVE THOUGHTS. 🤔😬
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Apologies for the delay in this week's ep (dropping tomorrow!) but in the meantime, Meagan brought out this t-shirt for recording tonight. That's right: the evils of capitalism and their intersection with trad pub are on the chippity chopping block at BAD LIT FRIENDS next week! #writingcommunity
BAD LIT FRIENDS ask the burning question of our (querying) age: WHY ARE AGENTS STILL REQUESTING PARTIALS IN THE YEAR OF OUR DARK LORD LABUBU 2026???
(Agents: we're kidding. Please request a partial from either of us.💖💕🙏)
Listen! open.spotify.com/episode/2Y3c...
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✨📖NEW BAD LIT FRIENDS📖✨
This week we're tanking our author careers before they start by telling agents what they could do better. (Why did we think this was a good ep idea?) PLUS Hot Goss: what, dead authors shouldn't give you feedback on your MS? BUZZKILL!
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BAD LIT FRIENDS' hot goss this week is pipin': should a writer (1) not read a genre and (2) hate the genre but (3) decide to write in the genre and (4) proceed to shit all over it? Listen to our latest ep to find out! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
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🚨🎙️NEW BAD LIT FRIENDS🎙️🚨
Social media: as a writer, you gotta lov—
No, no you don't. But sometimes it's useful? Sometimes enjoyable? Maybe? We don't promise anything EXCEPT that our Hot Goss about a writer who won't read in and hates her genre will make you mad! #writingcommunity #writesky #podcast
Please do check us out! We just dropped a new episode today about the evils and necessities of social media but, um, we still need to do a promo post for it here. But in the interim: open.spotify.com/episode/4pMc...
On this week's BAD LIT FRIENDS, it's true confession time: Meagan spills the beans on how she came back to writing by embracing her inner forum troll. Turns out, sometimes it's good to feed them! LISTEN: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmuK...
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✨YOUR FRIDAY IS COMPLETE—NEW BAD LIT FRIENDS EP✨
This week we take on shelf novels: manuscripts that seemed like a good idea at the time but on second thought... 💀🗑️💔Join us for true confessions from our boneyards. And in Hot Goss: rejection letter drama. Listen! #writesky #writingcommunity #podcast
🎶Books? What are they good for? ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING - SAY IT AGAIN🎶
On this week's BAD LIT FRIENDS we talk about books' superpower as empathy engines. The more empathy right now the better, as if you needed an excuse to read more. Listen! youtu.be/FeUvHWqOnRI #booksky #writesky #writingcommunity
Hello writers! New episode of Bad Lit Friends is up in your internets! 💥🔥🌟
We talk opening lines and share some of our current favorites. And then we have thoughts on maybe how you might want to read outside your comfort zone.
#WritingCommunity #podcasts #WriteSky
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👀NEW BAD LIT FRIENDS EPISODE👀 Writing communities! The good (support, feedback, not feeling alone), the bad (gatekeeping, toxic positivity), and in—Hot Goss—the ugly (publishers, again). Also Meagan's tire tried to kill her. Listen now! #writingcommunity #writesky #podcast #booksky
As the poet of our* age, Axl Rose, once sang: all we need is just a little patience. In this week's episode of BAD LIT FRIENDS, Kirk says that goes for writing too as we discuss what we wish we'd known when we started this writing lark. Listen: youtu.be/TI_B0M2-wIg
*Meaning the hosts. We're olds.
WHAT??? 😲 You haven't caught the latest episode of BAD LIT FRIENDS yet? This week we're talking stuff we wish we knew when we started writing, including when the best time to get going with that first book (hint: sooner than you think). Listen now!
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🚨NEW BLF EP ALERT🚨
We get all nostalgic and stuff as we talk about the things we learned the hard way so you don't have to. (You'll probably still have to learn them the hard way. Sorry.) Plus Hot Goss: what the ever-lovin' HELL is speed editing??? LISTEN NOW! #writesky #writingcommunity #podcast
Dream agents--who needs 'em? What if it's a case of mistaken identity? Hey we're BAD LIT FRIENDS, of course we have a hot take! Listen to our latest ep about handling rejection and...maybe you'll feel like less of a reject? (No promises.) #writesky #writingcommunity
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Dear writer: YOU SUCK! A new episode of BAD LIT FRIENDS is up and it's all about everyone's favorite part of querying: rejection letters.😐 But what if "it's not your book, it's me?" is an undercover blessing? PLUS in Hot Goss: Agents behaving badly. Very badly. #writesky #writingcommunity #podcast
We... did not know we could make clips that made us look like we almost understand marketing but you learn something every day! Listen to our latest episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube (when we remember to enable the episode) and all the usual places. And unusual ones. #booksky #writesky
We know it's late but this is 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘵. This week we're illuminating the mysteries of comp titles: what they are, how to find them, and why maybe your Aunt Sue might be the superhero you didn't know you needed. Plus in Hot Goss: buy my book or we're not friends.😤 #writesky #writingcommunity #podcast
After a hard week (trial, migraine, living through my own very special Gen X version of The Big Chill), looking forward to recording next week's episode of BAD LIT FRIENDS w/@kirkrafferty.com. We're talking everyone's version of a good time: rejection letters! GOOD TIMES. #writesky #writingcommunity
Season 2 of BAD LIT FRIENDS is here! And in our first ep of the new year, we're using our inside voices VERY LOUDLY to talk about when your book starts off in the wrong place, why it matters, and how to fix it. Also a lot about spontaneous human combustion. Very normal! #writesky #booksky #podcast
