let's get lit
Two writers from different ends of the spectrum – one with huge commercial success, the other with high critical acclaim and a cult following – get together to share a drink and their thoughts on books and art and life in the modern world.
Join Will Carver and SJ Watson as they navigate the literary world one chapter at a time.
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- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 44 minutes
- Episodes
- 16
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
NEW CHANNEL. NEW SHOWS.
We now have a podcast channel and we are filling it up with new shows.
Mark your diary for February, when we bring you Let's Get Lit: The Interviews, and download the new show, Nothing Important Happ…
HIGH HOPES
In the last show of the year, Will and Steve talk about Christmas trees, edging and the sticky subject of plagiarism.
They also learn some new 'young-people' words to put into their next novels.
Panto…
IF I HAD A MILLION DOLLARS
The world's most sporadic podcast returns with an episode about money. Will and Steve discuss how much money is and is not earned by writers and how they can bump up their often pitiful salaries in o…
THE SEARCH
Research. How much should you do? How do you do it? Should you just write what you already know? These questions and more will be answered in this week's show.
Will and Steve will also be sampling so…
TELL ME WHEN
Will and Steve are back in the studio after trying an online recording of the show, last time. (Thanks to 21 Soho for hosting.)
This week, discussion turns to when one is allowed to officially refer …
THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS
In this short comeback episode, Will and Steve discuss where they have been all this time, the lost episode and the all-important impact of AI on publishing. There is also a clue about the new podcas…
YOU GOTTA BE
Another live recording of the LET'S GET LIT podcast, this time from the Progress Theatre in Reading for FOURBEARS FEST.
This week, Will and Steve are trying to keep things positive as they work throu…
MOVING ON AND GETTING OVER
This week it's all about REJECTION.
Rejection from agents.
Rejection from publishers.
And rejection from readers.
And how writers just have to move on and get over it.
There's a short history of some…
SAY SAY SAY
They're BACK!!
After a sporadic but entertaining first season, Will Carver and SJ Watson return for more talk about books and the literary world, while sampling a few drinks along the way.
In this fir…
PAPERBACK WRITER
In this special publication-day episode, Will and Steve are recording live at Fourbears Books for the launch of Will's latest book, UPSTAIRS AT THE BERESFORD, where they will be talking about what sh…
LOSE YOURSELF
This week we get a little more serious and talk about failure. Weirdly, Steve has a lot more to discuss...
How do we fail? Why do we fail? Is it always a way to learn? Can writing save us?
All of these…
THE GREAT PRETENDER
This week we get deep and talk about the idea of 'imposter syndrome'.
Do we really belong here? When do you feel like you are a writer?
We also catch up on the latest hot topics in the world of literat…
GREEN IS THE COLOUR
From movie deals and foreign rights to awards and reviews, this week we talk about the worst emotion: jealousy.
Is everybody else really doing as well as it seems or is it just social media bluster?
Ca…
NEVER ENOUGH
This week we get a little more serious and talk about what it means to be successful and just what success, actually, is. (While sharing a bottle of reasonably priced Champagne.)
Book world issues in…
I SHOULD BE SO LUCKY
You can be the hardest working, most talented, charismatic, connected writer out there. You could have a killer idea for a story. It doesn't matter. There's one other thing that you are going to need…
BOTH SIDES NOW
Get to know the hosts of your new favourite podcast.
One has sold over 7 million books.
The other, once, got 20,000 likes for a picture of his tortoise.
Talking about books and reading and drinking and…