In the 2024 finale (more coming in the new year!), Eva and Katryn discuss navigating motherhood and writing, the dangers of AI in publishing, and curated lists—as well as some big vulnerable end-of-year feels. Katryn is both slut positive and dread positive, and Eva prepares for her annual hot author winter.

Sources:

• I Wish You Would made Barnes & Noble’s “Gifties for Swifties” list!
• Apologies, the Publishers Weekly article we discussed about using AI author facsimiles is paywalled, but if you have a PW account, you can find it HERE
• Katryn must eat crow and admit that James Patterson was a mensch for Christmas this year
• Please review Eva and Katryn’s books for the holidays this year!

This week, Eva and Katryn talk stalled careers and finding your beta match, but find time to pitch a Wicked themed pop-up Ozdust nightclub for the mature crowd. Eva revels at the righteous wrath of Swifties, and Katryn talks about the healing nature of satire.

Sources:

• Subscribe to Katryn’s Satire for the Soul substack!
• Dive deep to find out why Billboard owed Taylor Swift an apology
• Check out It’s Elementary by Elise Bryant!
  We talked about grifts in general but check out Victoria Aveyard’s bold suggestion in the wake of “pity marketing” being twisted for grifts and cons on social media

This week’s special episode is from the time machine! Listen to Eva and Katryn talk about navigating feedback in this bottle episode (airing in place of our weekly season four episode in the new format) from June 2024. Katryn reveals all about the darkly comedic vaudevillian murder meet-cute she wrote in a college English class, and Eva gets real about insecurity in the weeks after releasing her debut novel.

Sources:

• Only watch Artax drown in the swamp of sadness if you like suffering
• Buy Eva’s and Katryn’s books as holiday gifts!
• Watch the CP live chat that started it all, from 3 years ago nearly to the week!