NEW BAD LIT FRIENDS EP! 2 IN 1 WEEK! YES THIS SCHEDULE WAS ON PURPOSE!* In this episode, we kick off a three part series: So You Want to Write a Novel—Really? (no really, why would you do this?) We talk reality checks, genre panic, POV disasters & some salty Hot Goss. #writesky #podcast *it wasn't

New BAD LIT FRIENDS podcast is up! 🔥💥🌶️🚸 (help we don't know how emojis work!) This week on BLF, editing! Yay?! Also Penguingate. (not that Penguin) We're on Spotify, Apple, or wherever else you get your podcasts! #WritingCommunity #Podcasts #Writesky open.spotify.com/episode/0aBf...

New Bad Lit Friends has dropped!!! It's all about pitch contests! The good, the bad, the mood boards. Also: Book piracy. Is it bad? (uhhh...yeah, duh) Wherever you get your podcasts...you know the drill! #WritingCommunity #Podcasts #PitchContests #BookPiracy open.spotify.com/episode/3w80...

Goooooood MORNING BLUESKY! Our latest episode of BAD LIT FRIENDS is up in the podonets! Have a listen to our interview with Amber Hamilton, author of her debut novel, SEVEN DEADLY THORNS, a fairy tale where love's true kiss is deadly. And drop a line here, tell us what you think! #WritingCommunity

NEW BAD LIT FRIENDS drops tomorrow! 🔥💥🎉😱 And damn, this is a good one! We spoke with Amber Hamilton, whose debut novel is SEVEN DEADLY THORNS, a fairy tale retelling where true love's kiss kills. Have a listen wherever you get your podcasts! #WritingCommunity #Podcasts #YA #Romantasy

"Make fairy tales gruesome again!" And while you wait for this episode to draft, you can listen to our previous podcasts on Spotify or wherever else you get your podcasts! We're so freaking excited about this one! #Podcasts #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #YA

NEW EPISODE OF BAD LIT FRIENDS IS UP! Wherein we talk about writing rules and why every single one of them is complete trash. (not really) Bad Lit Friends is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever else you get your podcasts! #WritingCommunity #Podcasts open.spotify.com/episode/1eMk...

HEY #WritingCommunity, NEW EPISODE OF BAD LIT FRIENDS IS UP!!!! Coming to you live (recorded!) from the RMFW #ColoradoGold conference, held this last weekend. And we're talking about--DUH!--conferences! Have a listen wherever you get your podcasts! open.spotify.com/episode/0EBW...

For next week's Episode 10 (!!!) of Bad Lit Friends, we're asking you: which writing rule makes you irrationally angry? 1️⃣ Show, don't tell 2️⃣ Kill your darlings 3️⃣ Write what you know 4️⃣ NO ADVERBS -- NEIN! 📊 Show results

Hey #ColoradoGold people! Say hi if you see us this weekend at the #RMFW Colorado Gold Conference! We bite, but only if you ask nicely! #WritingCommunity

BREAKING NEWS STOP EVERYTHING New ep of BAD LIT FRIENDS is up! This week, Rylan, Kirk and Meagan talk writer's block (it's real) and how to unlock it, why criticism of performative bookishness tastes a tiny bit like misogyny, and how Faulkner comes off like Elle Woods, but not in a good way.

We'd like to thank all our hosts, @rytingwithcats.bsky.social, @kirkrafferty.com and @thecrumpet.bsky.social for their sterling service. 🫡 What it's in service of, we're not sure, but we appreciate it nonetheless.

@kirkrafferty.com, @thecrumpet.bsky.social, and @rytingwithcats.bsky.social will be at the @rmfwriters.bsky.social Colorado Gold Writers Conference on September 26-28! Please say hi if you see us! Please. We need the validation. rmfw.org/12-pro-tips-...

New episode of BAD LIT FRIENDS!!!! 💥🔥💥🔥💦 We tackle the dreaded synopsis! Also, more on the Anthropic settlement, and how fanfic is influencing tradpub. Go get it on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts! open.spotify.com/episode/4wio... #WritingCommunity #amquerying

Episode 7 of BAD LIT FRIENDS drops tomorrow, wherever you get your #podcasts! Part 2 of our #amquerying series: The Synopsis. Also, more on the Anthropic settlement and how fanfic is influencing tradpub. BYOB! (Bring your own books! Or beer! Or bath gel! We're not your boss!) #WritingCommunity

Episode 7 OF BAD LIT FRIENDS (@badlitfriends.bsky.social) is wrapped! Rylan joins us as co-host, synopsis writing tips from Kirk, & my rant about how Big 5 publishing cannibalizes folk art. Plus my graduate dissertation on the Teletubbies and MOAR Anthropic settlement stuff. Dropping 9/15! #writesky

New Bad Lit Friends is up, wherever you get your podcasts! In this episode, we talk about SQUIRRELS! No, that's a lie. We talk about query letters. Also the super crappy Anthropic settlement. (yeah, we said it because we're edgy!) #WritingCommunity #amquerying open.spotify.com/episode/6Sox...

What happens when our producer is out of town and we think we can handle the pod on our own? Did we talk query letters? The Anthropic settlement? Did it take our producer 11 HOURS to edit our rambling thoughts? Um... Find out tomorrow when a very messy Episode 6 of BAD LIT FRIENDS drops!

🎧 NEW Episode of Bad Lit Friends is up! Meagan & guest co-host Rylan dive into the writing contest industrial complex: real path to publication or just a pricey detour? Plus spilled tea and more! Available now, wherever you get your #podcasts! #WritingCommunity open.spotify.com/episode/7dW2...

New episode of Bad Lit Friends has dropped! 💥 We all do it. We compare our journeys to those of other writers, and it's hard on the soul. Do we have a solution? No, we do not. But we sure do like to pontificate. Ep 4 of Bad Lit Friends is available wherever you get your podcasts! #WritingCommunity

New Bad Lit Friends (@badlitfriends.bsky.social) episode—our FOURTH!—dropping in the morning! We talk the perils, pleasures, and pffffffft of comparing your writing to others, @kirkrafferty.com sounds like he knows what he's talking about, and quite frankly I'm unhinged at times.

Bad Lit Friends Ep 4 will be a wreck but we know you love that. We discuss: how writing isn’t like knitting & should be like flying a plane; letting the hate flow through you; appalling behavior at writing conferences; & authors who actively despise their readers. #badlitfriends #writingcommunity

This sounds... ominous. Or like Meagan's been drinking vodka tonics (splash of Rose's and a twist of lime!) again. Pray for Bad Lit Friends, the podcast that is trying to rein in one of its co-host's pretentious tendencies. #writesky #writingcommunity #thoughtsandprayers

Bad Lit Friends episode 3 is up! We talk about the Pubtips subreddit, and quite frankly we're disturbed at the lack of slendermen. (I'm being told that's a different subreddit—never mind!) Also, hotgos and hot takes: do you even need an editor? #WritingCommunity open.spotify.com/episode/2pad...

omg wait wut new ep of Bad Lit Friends tomorrow morning? NEW EP OF BAD LIT FRIENDS TOMORROW MORNING!!!!!

NEW WEBSITE WHO DIS badlitfriends.com

Not even kidding, we got Taylor Swift to join us on our new podcast episode coming out Monday. TAYLOR FREAKING SWIFT! No, of course this is a lie. You knew that, right? But how cool would that be? New episode Monday! With absolutely no TAYLOR SWIFT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG!!! #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

There's a reason we have our amazing producer @rytingwithcats.bsky.social to save us from podcast infamy -- Meagan's outline currently contains a reference to Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in the context of query personalization. #badlitfriends is bad, but we're not (huge) sadists.

My writing accountability partner held me accountable, and the audacity #WritingCommunity

From now on, we avoid using the Oxford comma in favor of the King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang Interrobang. Previously: She packed her bag with a camera, a notebook, and a map. Now: She packed her bag with a camera‽ A notebook‽ And a map‽ Is she insane‽ #WritingCommunity

In the wake of the crowdfunding author controversies, we're considering a Kickstarter. You send us money, we send you bespoke receipts and gum wrappers we've been using as bookmarks. Stretch goal: signed airline hand wipe packets & used stir sticks, also handy bookmarks in a pinch. #WritingCommunity

Hey #WritingCommunity, New Bad Lit Friends is up! Wherein Kirk and Meagan talk about stuff and things and the dreaded second book. Also bookish drama, and yeah, it's AI. It's our second episode, y'all! 🎉🥳🥂 open.spotify.com/episode/0TIw...

NEW BAD LIT FRIENDS EPISODE DROPS IN NINE HOURS!!!!!! #WRITINGCOMMUNITY open.spotify.com/show/6oWtkkp...

SHOCK SHOCK HORROR HORROR @kirkrafferty.com and I have seen the stats and some of you w̵e̵i̵r̵d̵o̵s̵ wonderful people are listening to our pod! (May <<insert holy power>> have mercy on your souls.) But like all vampires, we crave fresh blood. Please listen. Our immortality rests upon it. #badlitfriends

What happens when an indie author sells a book on vibes alone? We have thoughts, #writingcommunity open.spotify.com/episode/66V0...

Well, we done gone did it. Have a listen, like, subscribe, fawn, imagine the merch. We're not in our HelloFresh era yet, so you get to hear us at our most chaotic. #badlitfriends #writingcommunity #writesky

Episode 1 of the #badlitfriends podcast is in the can! Or should that be put in a can, stashed at the back of the pantry and forgotten about, like that jar of molasses that only comes out for holiday baking? Hm. You'll be the judge soon when @kirkrafferty.com and I release our monstrosity! #writesky

If your favorite flavor is schadenfreude, stay tuned for our debut episode!

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