Lit Service
Publishing pros give writing advice and first chapter critiques to aspiring writers.
- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 25 minutes
- Episodes
- 151
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2024
Bonus Episode: Hot Seat Critique with Caitlin and Cameron
To round out the year we're doing one last bonus hot seat critique! We also did a bonus episode with our reactions to the newest season of the Mandalorian now that the last episode finally landed--to…
4.24 Illustration as Narrative with Isaac Stewart
You can find the chapter we critique here
Isaac Stewart joins the Lit Service crew to talk about picture books and illustration and how to get a whole story out of so few words (and how illustrations…
4.23 Platonic Relationships
Join the core crew to talk about why having a good range of different kinds of relationships in a story is important and how to do it well.
The chapter we critique can be found here.
If you want a …
4.22 Balancing Those Plots with Sara B. Larson
Sara B. Larson joins the Lit Service Crew to chat about romantic arcs in YA, why they're so prevalent, and how to balance them against your plot in your own work.
Sara is the author of the Defy Serie…
Bonus Episode: Hot Seat Critique with Caitlin
Caitlin live reads and critiques a submitted chapter, digging into why it isn't quite working (though the concept is pretty fun! A little embarrassed romance goes a long way!). Some episodes Caitlin …
4.21 Fantasy Sports with Amparo Ortiz
Debut author Amparo Ortiz joins the Lit Service Crew to talk about why sports in fantasy and how to do it well (even if you don't like sports yourself!).
Amparo Ortiz was born in San Juan, Puerto Ri…
4.20 The Proper Care and Management of Plot Twists
The Lit Service Crew chats about how to foreshadow plot twists and what sorts of things to avoid.
If you want a first chapter critique from Lit Service, check out our submission guidelines.
This podc…
4.19 Romance and Comedy and Characters, Oh My! with Aminah Mae Safi
Aminah Mae Safi joins the Lit Service crew live at Teen Author Bootcamp to chat about how characters make the romcom (and every other story!). Aminah is the author of Not the Girls You're Looking For…
4.18 Where Genres Meet with Tracy Deonn
Tracy Deonn joins the Lit Service Crew to chat about how to use tropes to dig into real issues while making your story timeless.
Tracy Deonn earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in communicatio…
4.17 Tone
Caitlin, Cameron, and Kristen chat about what tone is and how to utilize it to tell your story to a specific audience or to elicit a specific response in a reader.
4.16 Perseverance with Darcie Little Badger
Dr. Darcie Little Badger joins the Lit Service Crew to talk about how to survive the ups and downs of the publishing world both as an aspiring writer and as a published one.
Darcie is an Earth scien…
Bonus: Hot Seat Critique with Caitlin and Cameron
Join Cameron and Caitlin as they read a past submission out loud and do a live critique as they go. let us know if you like this on social media! If you do, we'll do more of these!
4.15 Author-Agent Relationships with Holly Root
Holly Root, the founder of Root Literary and agent to many a New York Time Bestseller, joins the Lit Service crew to chat about what author-agent relationships look like.
4.14 Monkey Closets with Samantha Hastings
Samantha Hastings joins the Lit Service Crew to talk about how to approach writing a historical romance. Samantha is the author of The Last Word, The Invention of Sophie Carter (which is available fo…
4.13 Bookstagram with Bridget Howard
Caitlin, Cameron, Aliah, and Kristen chat with Bridget Howard about building a social media platform.
Bridget owns the bookstagram account @darkfaerietales_ which has over 116,000 followers. She is a…
4.12 Collaboration with the Lady Janies
The Lit Service crew chats with the Lady Janies (Jodi Meadows, Cynthia Hand, and Brodi Ashton, NYT bestselling authors of My Lady Jane, My Plain Jane, and My Calamity Jane) about how to collaborate o…
4.11 Twenty Questions with DongWon Song
Literary agent DongWon Song joins the Lit Service crew to chat about what authors can do to get an agent's attention and why some stories work and some don't.
DongWon Song is an agent at Howard Morha…