Jen and Bridget take you through the confusing and splendiferous world of taking a book on submission to editors.   Like the podcast? Support us by buying one of the books we mention in this podcast and using our affiliate links (below!…

Talkin’ bout description, having your characters do things, and the difficulties of imagination.  Like the podcast? Support us by buying one of the books we mention in this podcast and using our affiliate links (below! Currently only Amazon and…

In which Jen and Bridget attempt to compare writing to being an olympic figure skater and fail, mostly because neither of them know anything about figure skating (and because they don’t want to talk about sexual harassment in publishing.)  Like…

In which Jen and Bridget discuss professional jealousy, zero-sum agenting, and Jen’s feelings about the actor Adam Driver.  NEWS: We are starting to share affiliate links for the books we discuss on the podcast. Currently Amazon is the only one…

In this episode we discuss voice, point of view, the seasons of publishing, and answering how we’re doing in “Trump-Adjusted Terms,” and discover that Jen doesn’t know what to call the pluperfect tense (she calls it past-past).   

Ethan, you weird sweet goober.

In this episode, Bridget and Jen speak to a whole crowd of awesome folks at the 2017 Nebula Awards Weekend, held in June in Pittsburgh, PA. “Come eat things with us, because you are also people.” Guests include:  Barry Goldblatt, …

The all-singing, all-dancing, all-questions episode of Shipping & Handling. We discuss sensitivity readers, “write what you know,” revision, pitching novels in “dead” genres, and much, much more.  ANNOUNCMENT 1: We will be…

In this episode we discuss  by Lois McMaster Bujold. Mild spoilers about THE RAVEN BOYS by Maggie Stiefvater also contained therein. (I know.)  For next time, we’re reading !  You can listen to the episode here.