Wu Hao's FURY 12 HOURS (2024) + Nikhil Nagesh Bhat's KILL (2023) + character complexity on the bell curve of waterhead to sage + the Bruce Willis School for Forgetting How to Read + two Furbies going back and forth + zoomer cashiers. brokenriverbooks.com jdavidosborne.com kelbylosack.com Check out the cover (by Kurt Huggins) and ad copy for JDO's upcoming cybergore novel GODS FARE NO BETTER LETTING OUT THE DEVILS and MERCY are available again in Kelby's webstore Support the show and access the archive at patreon.com/agitator

We kick things off talmbout marketing strategies and early reader feedback on JDO's upcoming cybergore novel Gods Fare No Better. Also: why controversy is good for sales (but only if it's not fabricated), Brandon Sanderson's "rotating crops" approach to juggling creative projects, what makes Alex Perez so annoying, and are the RFK onesies worth the price tag? We share our predictions on how the drop of Kelby's gangster neo-western Texas Tea will go, JDO explains what's inside Korean fish candy, we murder the egos of writers with prestigious publishing ambitions, and then we dive into The Binding of Isaac and what storytelling lessons can be learned from this game. For more on the writing collective, check out brokenriverbooks.com and brbjdo.substack.com

It's a gold rush of bars. So much quotable wisdom here, it would take a Dave Blunts sized t-shirt to fit it all. Our boa David Simmons, favorite writer of the band Uniform, hops on about an hour and a half in to join the craft talk and marketing strategies, the state and future of all of the media industries, the value of hobbyists, addiction, what's coming up from Broken River, and basically everything in or around the world of writing (plus family). This episode is brought to you by real gangstas and also Ozempic. Keep up with the collective at brokenriverbooks.com and The Broken River Writers' Collective on Substack. Support the show at patreon.com/agitator. Cop some merch HERE. Follow us on X: @KelbyLosackBRB @jdowrites @WholeTimeDavid and IG: @kelby.losack @jdowrites @toppdogghill

I had Adam Cesare on the podcast! We talk about how to sell books at cons. I really admire this dude. He has a real love for the thing, and he goes out and fucking DOES IT. He wrote The Summer Job, Tribesmen, Video Night, and The Con Season.

It's the holidays, and we're spending it with the family. The Rare Candy and Agitator boys are in the cave of the red-headed giant chopping it up about Cormac McCarthy's alleged secret muse, Aaron Gwyn, audiobooks counting as reading, the end of cancel culture, aliens from Atlantis, Columbine and Vegas and Sandy (oh, my!), interplanetary travel, Elon Musk, caring vs not caring what other artists think, and more. Listen to/read Rare Candy at rarecandy.substack.com and everywhere you listen to podcasts. More on the Broken River Books collective at brokenriverbooks.com Horse around with us on X: JDO @jdowrites Kelby @KelbyLosackBRB Rare Candy @Rarecandypod1 Buy Rare Candy swag Cop that Agitator drip More at patreon.com/agitator