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Sarah's Bookshelves Live

Ep. 174: Unscripted | Auto-Buy Authors with Susie and Catherine

Sarah's Bookshelves Live

Sarah Dickinson

Arts, Books

4.7 • 785 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2024

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

For Ep. 174, due to an unexpected change in our episode schedule, we're bringing you an episode from our newest Patreon bonus series, Unscripted. This series is our sandbox for any bookish topic, whether it's publishing news, behind-the-scenes insights from the podcast and our reading lives, or patron-submitted discussions. Most Unscripted episodes feature both co-hosts, Susie Boutry (@NovelVisits) and Catherine Gilmore (@GilmoreGuide), along with me — and this April episode was no exception. We dive into the topic of Auto-Buy Authors, submitted by patrons! Tune in for a candid chat about the authors we always buy, former favorites, and those we've learned to avoid.

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Introduction [4:19]

Books Mentioned

Auto-Buy Authors [11:12]

Catherine

Susie

Sarah

Former Auto-Buy Authors [1:03:23]

Catherine

Susie

Sarah

Auto-Avoid Authors  [1:14:50]

Catherine

Susie

Sarah

Other Books Mentioned

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Sarah's Bookshelves Live. I'm your host, Sarah Dickinson. Join me every other week as we get

0:15.5

real and sometimes a bit snarky about books and reading. Sometimes I'm joined by one of my co-hosts, Catherine,

0:22.1

from Gilmer Guide to Books, or Susie from Novel Visits. Other times, I talk with a bookish guest,

0:28.4

including authors and publishing insiders who give us a behind-the-scenes peek into different

0:33.4

corners of the book world. But always, we're bringing you great book recommendations in every

0:39.3

single episode. Let's get rolling. Hey everyone, we had a change of plans for today's episode.

0:46.7

We originally had a guest planned for today, but we weren't able to get the episode recorded

0:51.3

due to some red tape at the guest company. So we had to quickly

0:54.9

pivot and have decided to air one of our bonus episodes we originally put together for our

1:00.6

patrons back in April. This year, we launched a new bi-monthly bonus series for our patrons called

1:06.8

unscripted. In unscripted, some combination of Catherine, Susie, and I riff on a general

1:12.4

bookish topic in a very loose way. And I do mean very loose. This is probably the loosest thing we do.

1:18.3

It's often been all three of us on these unscripted episodes so far. Our unscripted topics can be

1:24.5

anything, something interesting going on in the book world, our own reading

1:28.1

lives, behind the scenes of the podcast, or topics that our patrons submit. The episode you're

1:33.9

going to hear today is a topic that our patrons submitted, and that's auto buy authors. And we cover

1:39.5

this topic in a couple different ways today. We first of all talk about our personal auto buy author criteria.

1:45.4

Then we go into auto buy authors in three different categories. Number one is our straight up

1:51.6

auto buy authors exactly what you think of when you think of the word auto buy. Number two,

1:56.2

our former auto buy authors. These are authors who used to be auto buy for us, but no longer are.

2:02.9

And then finally, our auto avoid authors. These are authors who we've tried maybe once or twice,

2:09.1

and we now know enough about them to know that they do not work for our personal reading taste.

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