The Highlights:

• Consensually Cuffed to the Table
• Intellecting About Kissing Scenes
• Not In A Weird Way, In a Hot Way
• Kate Won't Let Go of the Bad Pencil Skirt
• Running Out of Steam By The End of The Book
• Plot Sustaining Endings
• Switching Gears
• Carrying All Your Mistakes
• Slowest of the Slow Burns
• A More Gesture-y Grand Gesture
• Fucking Tired of These Guys (Said With Love)
• Goals, But No Way To Track Them
• These Two Get Painfully Gooey
• A Load-Bearing Breath

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Today's episode we have Katie from from the Cheap Smut podcast joining us, lending us her perspective on the many bookish world topics and tangents we roam through. 

If you want more of Katie, check out Cheap Smut, Katie and Max's amazing, bantery podcast about the wild and wonderous stories and ideas you can find in romance and erotica.  https://linktr.ee/cheapsmut

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Kate has been working hard on our next episode of this season, but the silly file is causing her trouble. So, enjoy this repost, and know that we'll have a conversation with Katie of Cheap Smut Podcast just as soon as we can!

This episode, Marty and Kate talk about:

• The Outside Is Attacking Us (Allergies)
• Marty Isn't DNFing Out of Spite
• Marty F's Around with Prequels and Finds Out She Should Write More 
• Sideboob Logistics
• Kate and Marty Are Really Having An Easy Time Writing Books for Once and Are Really Confused About It
• Marty Sets Some Really Wild Challenges for Herself
• Surprising No One, Marty is an Extrovert, Kate is an Introvert
• Making Friends Or Writing Books
• Reflecting On Ways Our Lives Have Changed Over The Last Couple Years
• 24 Minutes in We Get to the Point of the Episode
• Defining Success Outside of Captialism
• Nail Break
• Also You Can't Really Remove Capitalism from the Equation, Yet
• If You Really Knew What Your Dream Entailed, Would You Still Want It?
• Put Pressure On Yourself Like Everyone's Watching, Even If They Aren't
• Don't Love It When Things Happen to Me
• Leaving in the Ice Noises Specifically For You 
• Film Degrees Are Pretty Useless

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The Highlights

• Take One Was Just Primal Screaming For A Bit
• The Problem With Looking Back At Where You Were
• Marty's Had A Year
• Pondering On Setbacks
• Reminding Yourself Of The Marathon
• What Is the Next Thing That's Going to Make Me Happy, In This Process?
• Kate Hasn't Forgotten That One File She Lost 10 Years ago
• Edits Lost to the Ether 
• Some Chapters Have to Get Worked On

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The Highlights:

• AI Dogwhistles
• Testimonial Marketing
• Fucking Ai Invading Every Facet Of Our Lives AND FOR WHAT
• Accutely Aware of Perception Being Affected By Mood
• Dissecting "If You Don't Enjoy Writing It, Will Readers Enjoy Reading It"
• I Don't Need It To Be Imperfect
• It's Kinda Your Fault, Kate
• Long And Winding Thought about the Dunning-Kruger Effect
• Looking for the Bad Lining
• How Many Times Can You Point Out The Gun On The Wall

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The Highlights:

• Nintendogs Wasn't Real
• Proof That You're Funny
• Andrew Could Do Heart Surgery, Probably
• Fear of A Free Chair
• Marty's Soliloquy 
• The Quit Your Dayjob Gremlin Comes Back
• Not Everyone's Goals Are Your Goals
• Don't Forget That Roxie Noir Can Parallel Park
• Kate Mumbles About Refridgerator Tastes
• And Someday, You'll Take Your Last Breath
• Kate's Really Stuck on This Refridgerator Thing
• What Would Being A Full-Time Author Look Like In Your Life
• Haunted By What We Don't Know
• People Like Physical Media
• On My Deathbed Wishing I'd Published More Books
• Be Funny Or Unloved
• Kate Gets WAAAAY Too Existential For a Hot Minute
• Drugs

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Pre-order Kate Prior's new-release, Be My Bad Guy, where the superhero's ex girlfriend falls for the supervillain's henchman.

Marty Vee's newest book Hazel and Elijah Find Out is now available. Sign up for Marty's newsletter at her website to get Hazel and Elijah Don't Get Caucht for free!

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*The book events discussed are BookHarvest2025 which both Marty and Kate pulled out of later in the year, and Monsterotica2025. 
**Apologies for Kate's horrendous audio, she hated listening to it too

The Highlights:

• Impromptu Reminder We've Got Reasonable Rates
• Everything Kate Learned About Book Events All At Once
• Neither A Boat Nor A Train, But A Secret Third Thing
• Ticket VS Book Math
• Expected Free Stickers 
• Put That In Your Tax Deductions
• Book Carts are No Joke
• No One Wants To Be Fucking Around With Pennies
• Capitalism Wants You to Be Uncomfortable With Money
• Bring Protein Bars, Seriously
• Getting Lost in a Sea of Peens and Abs

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The Highlights:

• Boob Assisted Device
• Don't Take That Tone With Me, Book
• Genre-Specific Writing Advice, Revisited
• Parallel Rails
• They Don't Know They're Sitting On Memory Foam
• The Cliche is There Because It's A Delight
• Marty Recommends 7 Figure Fiction for the 1000th Time
• Forearms, You Little Slut
• Playing 4D Chess with My Psyche
• A Quick Moral Crisis About Social Media Platforms

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The Highlights:

• We've Been Corny the Whole Time
• Your Woo Stuff is Different from My Woo Stuff
• Factually Correct Jokes Are Always Funnier
• 2025 Bingo Resolutions
• Book Release Fomo
• One 150k Word Book VS Three 50k Word Books
• Kate's Theory About Genre-Specific Writing Advice
• To Monologue Or Not To Monologue
• Lemme Off the Leash Boss
• The Seed Oils Thing Is Barely Relevant

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