Hi everyone, and thank you for tuning in to another episode of the We Make Books Podcast - A podcast about writing, publishing, and everything in between!

This week we’re talking about ARCs or Advance Review Copies! What are they?  Why do we print them?  Who gets them?  Why do they smell better than your average book??  Rekka and Kaelyn discuss all of those things, tell a few funny stories, and spend more than a little time getting side tracked talking about ARCs they’ve received. 

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Rekka:00:00   Welcome back to another episode of the we make books podcast. I'm record Jay and I write science fiction and fantasy as RJ Theodore

Kaelyn:           00:07   And I'm Kaelyn Considine and I am the acquisition editor for Parvus Press. This is one of my favorite things that happened in the process of publishing a book. And we are of course talking about advanced review copies or ARCs.

Rekka:00:19   Because you get to see it and it's a thing and it's real and they haven't been lying to you this whole time and they're really going to publish it.

Kaelyn:           00:24   I don't know what it is. I love getting the ARCs it's -

Rekka:00:27   Do they smell different?

Kaelyn:           00:28   They yes, they smell, this is a trade secret: they smell different than a regular book.

Rekka:00:33   They do smell different,

Kaelyn:           00:34   Yeah.

Rekka:00:35   I'm going to dive in here.

Kaelyn:           00:36   No Rekka's right in to the spine.

Rekka:00:39   [laughter]

Kaelyn:           00:39   Um, so yeah, we're just talking today a little bit about what ARCs are -

Rekka:00:43   What it is because as you even mentioned, and I think one of our very intro episodes -

Kaelyn:           00:46   It was the intro episode

Rekka:00:48   You didn't even know what ARC meant so -

Kaelyn:           00:49   That was the example I gave about don't be afraid to ask stupid questions because I knew what an advanced review copy was and I had just never heard it abbreviated to ARC and then I was like, oh, it's that thing I love.

Rekka:01:00   Yeah. It's my favorite thing. I know what it is, I just didn't know you called it that.

Kaelyn:           01:03   Yeah. You know, we talked a little bit today about what an ARC is, what its function is -

Rekka:01:06   Who gets them.

Kaelyn:           01:07   Who gets them.

Rekka:01:08   And where they go.

Kaelyn:           01:09   Where they go.

Rekka:01:09   And what their purposes.

Kaelyn:           01:11   Exactly. Yeah. So, um, you know, a little interesting bit about the history of them, sort of where they come from and why they are what they are.

Rekka:01:20   Mmmhmm.

Kaelyn:           01:20   Um, so I think it was a great episode.

Rekka:01:22   Yeah

Kaelyn:           01:22   I enjoyed doing it.

Rekka:01:23   Yes. Well, I always like paying attention to ARCs and, and we get to squeal a little bit about ARCs that are out there in the world. Right this moment as we recorded.

Kaelyn:           01:30   Yeah we definitely devolved into -

Rekka:01:33   A little bit of squealing.

Kaelyn:           01:33   A little bit of squealing. So apologies for that.

Rekka:01:36   No apologies.

Kaelyn:           01:37   Okay. Nevermind. We're not sorry.

Rekka:01:38   Love us as we are -

Kaelyn:           01:40   O