In this episode, we get into the different marketing trends we see on booktok and how authors present their books to audiences! We’re always interested and puzzled by the different strategies and we had a lot of fun here talking about how this works when a big part of the fun of reading is not knowing what comes next. As always, we both see this a little differently so it’s an interesting discussion.

What about you?? Do you like knowing tropes? Do you read the backs of books before you buy them?

Intro and Outro Music is by Chasing West

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Chapters:

00:00–Cold open, intro song, and episode intro

00:55–Reading check-ins!

Allie read basically nothing (except Horizon Zero Dawn–a game lol). Spoiler alert for Bioshock lol!

10:55–Writing check-ins!

Allie doubled the new story word count (with only 1400 words lol–still not hitting the 2k weekly goal)

Sam wrote 3.5k words writing an important early battle scene!

19:31–Main Discussion: Social media marketing ploys and what is too far!

Crowns of Nyaxia (Fallen and the Kiss of Dusk) spoiler discussion at 27:34-30:54

Light spoilers for Plated Prisoner series at 33:29-36:23

1:00:41–Next week, (plus long tangent about plans for writing next week), closing & outro music