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“I mostly love this podcast. I love the Books With Hooks segment and really anything with Carly and CeCe— I really appreciate their perspective on the industry and their genuine support for writers. The guests are incredible and knowledgeable. I have loved the guest interviewers and the newer segments where bookstagrammers and booksellers recommend comps. Most of all, I love the supportive and encouraging space you create. It’s the one podcast I reliably listen to each week.
My constructive feedback is that the new format doesn’t seem to be working. It’s gotten to where I, once a loyal listener who looked forward to every episode, am now skipping episodes because they aren’t as compelling. The new format doesn’t showcase everyone’s gifts to the best of their abilities. Carly and Cece are professional literary agents who critique queries as part of their job. They are much more skilled at this than the guest authors, and their feedback reflects it. Meanwhile guest authors, who are likely on the podcast to promote their work, end up saddled between all these queries plus having to do the work of critiquing a query themselves, and they aren’t positioned best to discuss themselves, their books, or their process. The transitions are also strange because the queries often don’t really have a clear connection to the authors’ work, so the conversations with the guest authors feels much more stilted and superficial. It feels almost disrespectful to a visiting author to ask them to do a query critique, be silent while 2 other people do a query critique, and every now and then get asked a random question about your work. If I was a visiting author I’d be like “why did they invite me to this?”
I’m wondering if this change occurred because so many people stop listening to episodes halfway through after the Books With Hooks segment, which one of you alluded to a while back. If this actually does happen, I suspect the reason isn’t because people don’t want to listen to author interviews— it’s because the interviews could be done more skillfully. If the new format change was indeed a response to this dynamic, I would offer that this could be an excellent chance for the hosts to build interview skills. This is a skill that can be learned and you all have the empathy and enthusiasm to be wonderful interviewers, but currently this is not coming across— especially with the new format.”
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United States of America ·
07/19/23
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