Binati Sheth

Binati Sheth

Visit my Swellcast website to reply to my episodes: https://www.swellcast.com/binati_sheth This is the personal podcast of Binati Sheth, writer, editor and writing guide for aspiring authors. To learn more or to start your own personal or community podcast, please visit www.swellcast.com. Visit https://swellcast.com/Binati_Sheth to add your episodes to this community podcast, or to start your own podcast.

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July 14, 2025 3 mins
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"If you are a fan of science fiction, swell. There is one author you have to read. He is called Isaac Asimov. To say that he wrote and he wrote and he wrote would be an understatement because he's one of those people who thought faster than he wrote. So he used to hate the process of compiling the book. The man was brilliant. So again, the thought processes are going in all directions. H...
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"And yeah, in case you have ever asked me for a recommendation and I have left you unread, this is why I want you to discover books on your own. Have like a whole book discovery system which can include taking recommendations from social media, content creators and community posts and things like that."
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"The team is picking books that are so introspective and books that stay with you for years after you are done reading with them. So you, you get an email from Service 95 that the book of the month is going to be this and then do I interviews the author. It's. It's brilliant. The whole thing is it. And with Service 95, I think you don't get to meet the reader communities. You absolutely ...
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"So another thing to do is when something goes wrong and see, no matter where you are in the world, something will go wrong naturally or from man made accidents or causes an accident has happened, some sort of calamity has happened. The impulse is to go and see what's up. But see when you go to go and see what's up, what you're doing is you're creating crowds. I have personally volunteer...
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"Hello, swell. This is a webinar announcement about layering your stories, which is a fancy way of saying every story is never just one thing. There will be multiple things in a story that work together to give you the wonderful onion, you know, which is the story. It will make you cry, it will stink up the place, it will act as the aromatic element of your food and it will make things d...
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"People need to suffer a little bit when they have not been nice throughout the book. So mild spoiler warning on Ali Hazelwood's Deep End. If you want to read it, please come back to this one after you've read it. I am talking about Penelope. Obviously. If you've read Deep End, you know this. The entire review section of that book is people just not liking the character arc of this side ...
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March 21, 2025 3 mins
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"But in talking about these things that made me turned literature into passion, which also became profession, reintroduced me to my joy. Like I found my joy and nothing can ruin my mood on account of it. So I think the lesson here is life happens to us all. We get busy, stuff happens and you put joy on a pause. Don't do that. If possible, maybe find like five minutes once a week to do so...
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"If your intention was to write something hurtful, it shows Lark was intentionally trying to write something hurtful. And obviously people pulled support from that. So this is where I implore you to learn from the mistakes of these authors. Nobody is asking you to not write complex, darker themes into books. It's just that don't make light of the theme. Intent matters, so does the execut...
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"ARCs or advanced reader Review copies are simple to get, but then it is not that simple. Hello, swell. Something happened in my professional life that made me want to talk about the arcing process because I think not a lot is known about this. In general, when big book releases are planned, we follow this process called arcing, where copies of the book are sent out to get reviews when t...
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February 14, 2025 2 mins
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"The point of this blah is we live so much of our life unaware of so many, so many, so many things. And then somewhere something like this shows up and absolutely makes your day. So. So yeah, listen, even if it is a neighbor uncle annoying you with their TVs volume, sometimes you can discover an otter is a water cat in some language. Has something like this ever happened to you where you...
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"So yeah, I'm sorry if you are, on behalf of the publishing industry, I'm sorry if you are disappointed by your excitement for the book being rewarded like this. And yeah, if you have follow up questions, feel free to ask."
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"And writers, authors like say Gabriel Garcia Marquez, one of, one of the bigger names, the biggest actually in Magical Realism because he won a Nobel for one hundred Years of Solitude. You, you, you can comment on. And he did comment on the civil wars happening around the place and its effect on people. Because see Gabo, Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a journalist before he became a celebra...
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"There are references in the book like Al Anon and the Omsford family and the wish, the magic of all of this. All of these would be massive spoilers to other books in the series, so don't want to ruin them for you. So I'm really, really enjoying how layered the world building is, to be honest. So I. I am aspiring to finish book 23 to book 35 by March, but I know I won't be able to do it....
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"It is deeply conservative behaviors, to be honest, but feminist dialogue and, I mean, yeah, shoot me. Also on the topic of gripes, this is not exactly about feminism, but whatever is happening with the world building within this book, it. It's so inconsistent. And, oh, my God, the writing, it's so repetitive. And as an editor, I ran a few checks. She repeats certain lines again and agai...
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"And I thought it's a satire. And the more I got into the book, I realized, oh, it's. It might be a satire. Doesn't matter whether it is, because what all the dialogue and the monologues and the explanations within the book is trying to do is. It is trying to ask you to define what wellness is to you and why there are all of these weird permissions that we seek in the way we live our lif...
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"It's about somebody who happens to be your target audience. So that is why I shared this quote and the context again, which can be located from clicking on the link in the description. So while you write your non fictions inspired by some quote, some paragraph things of the sort, don't project if you can help it or project as much as you want."
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November 29, 2024 4 mins
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"But instead of going row or like, or anything of the sort, it goes chirp, chirp like a bird or meep, meep like a bird. How shocking would that be? That's what I basically encountered in a book. This book is technically a romance novel and it has a. It's. It's got elements of fantasy in it. So it's not exactly a human romance. It is. There are humans in this universe, of course."
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November 17, 2024 4 mins
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"I think when you keep getting information and when you only keep getting information, okay, you're not doing anything else. You're just, oh, XYZ authors publishing journey. Oh, XYZ editor's advice or this publisher's interview on YouTube or I hope you understand what I'm trying to imply here. When you are gathering information about the publishing industry from everywhere, you're not li...
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"Taking things away from books that are not so good. Hello, swell. And this is just an optimist's take on reading a book that was as advertised, not so good. We all have reading preferences and sometimes we pick up books thinking they are about one thing. But then as you read the book you discover oh no, I have been fooled. And you've. I am one of those people. I don't think I've ever DN...
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"So if you read the book wellness by Natal Hill, let me know how badly this is going to hurt. If you haven't read it, check it out and consider reading it. It's excellent."
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