Publishing Pals
Welcome to Publishing Pals Podcast, a podcast where two pals talk about publishing. For nearly a decade, we have tried, failed, and sometimes succeeded at being traditionally published. Come along with us as we share everything we've learned in this oddly gatekept, confusing, but incredibly fun and rewarding industry.
Publishing Pals
Reads and Recs of 2025
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Hello!
In this episode we’re talking about reads and recs of 2025 - what we read this past year, what we loved, and what we’d recommend.
Here are some of the authors, artists, and other things we brought up during the episode. Just a disclaimer - please do not take our word as fact. The publishing industry is always changing, and often we are talking about things we are remembering from a while ago or have heard from others. While the agent deep dive is always fact checked, we do not prep for these episodes or look up other information beforehand. It’s always important to do your own research! If we realize after the fact that we have gotten anything wrong, we will do our best to correct it in the show notes.
Here are the links for Laura Rennert, the agent from our agency deep dive:
https://www.andreabrownlit.com/Team/laura-rennert
https://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/LauraRennert/
https://www.instagram.com/ljrennert/
https://bsky.app/profile/ljrennert.bsky.social
Here are links to all the books we recommended!
Roll Call:
Divine Rivals:
The Spellshop:
The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich:
A Witch’s Guide to Magical Inkeeping:
The Wedding People:
https://tinyurl.com/3ca8afrt
The Raven Scholar:
The Love of my Afterlife:
https://tinyurl.com/2y8car4v
Sabriel:
The House of my Mother:
An interview that goes over the study done of comparing audiobook reading to book or ebook reading:
https://tinyurl.com/rjbjmdcw