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 through a list of all the wonderful parts of being a writer.

They talk about the National Book Awards, festival FOMO and working class people in the arts, as well as the death of dogs and film producers.

There is audience interaction and Debbie has a very important question for Will.

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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 famous writer rejections and Will and Steve share some of their best one-star reviews, before talking about this year's longlist for the Theakston's Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year.

Oh, and Diane from Dudley gets a little saucy.

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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 first episode of the new season, they discuss VOICE. What is a writing voice? Who are the most distinctive writers? What does it mean to have a voice? And does it affect success?

Current reads include, Ring, The Puppet Master and Christ on a Bike, and in the news they discuss AI again – this time with regard to apps that condense novels into a more 'manageable' size – and the fact that Will Dean has a new jacket...

There's also a new guest spot for Debbie from Dudley as Sandra, sadly, makes way for a new super-fan.

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