Nick: Well, maybe you, like Hugo, want to read more books in 2025, but you don’t know what to read. Maybe you’re interested in writing and storytelling and how it all works, but you don’t know where to start. Maybe you just want to hang out with some bookish folk once a month. Whatever your reasons, this is the show for you.

Hugo: Stop pitching, Nick! You still haven’t explained what we’re actually doing.

Nick: Ah, good point.

Hugo: So, each month, Nick picks a book that he believes presents an aspect of storytelling extremely well — that might be character, structure, pace, setting, or any other number of aspects of the writing craft. You read the book during the month (like you would for a book club) and assemble with us at the end for a chat about what it does well and what we can learn from it as writers and readers while having a lot of fun along the way. I guess you don’t have to read the book to listen to the episode (we’re not checking homework!), but I can guarantee the experience will be better if you do. Plus, you wanted to read more books, right? What better way to hold yourself accountable?

Nick: The books will span the genres — crime, fantasy, horror, contemporary realism, sci-fi, and more — and push you out of your reading comfort zone step by step. By the end of it, you’ll be joining us in our ultimate goal: to write the greatest book ever written.