Writers to Watch, 2025 Edition

Book Riot - The Podcast

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4.3 • 965 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Jeff and Rebecca talk about a bunch of early-ish career writers to keep your eye on. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. Sign up for the Book Riot Podcast Newsletter and follow the show on Instagram and Bluesky. Get more industry news with our Today in Books daily newsletter. A new year means a new Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons. Sign up at bookriot.com/readharder. Discussed in this Episode: The Book Riot Podcast Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What kind of weekend are you in the mood for?
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0:11.0	drama and fine dining with The Bear,
0:13.0	or a journey back to feudal Japan with Shogun.
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0:22.1	18 plus subscription required.
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0:27.2	This is the BookWry podcast.
0:28.8	I'm Jeff O'Neill.
0:29.6	And I'm Rebecca Shinsky.
0:31.0	And we're doing a episode of Writers to Watch.
0:35.0	And we have not discussed what this means at all.
0:40.6	We have not. I think this was born out of a patreon idea at one point and this was like maybe writers that if they had a couple
0:46.4	originally it was writers if they had a couple more books they would go up on our list of like
0:49.8	these are our guys we buy their books every time but then it's kind of maybe who's due for a breakout
0:54.8	or who do we think is on the rise. I have a little, I have some of all of those and some that I just
0:59.6	think are people to pay attention to. How did you do it? I kept it to they, they couldn't have
1:05.5	three books out. Oh, okay. So I didn't need it to be just one. But then also, I think I have, for example, and then they can't have already, quote, unquote, made it in my mind.
1:16.0	And I don't know what that means, except I know when I see it.
1:18.4	It's not Barbara Kingsolver being unrefreciated.
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