Welcome, writers and book lovers.
The Bleeders is a podcast and newsletter (and support group!) about book writing and publishing.
The podcast features transparent conversations with authors, agents, and people in the publishing industry about how to write and sell books.
The title is a nod to the famous Hemingway quote (though perhaps misattributed): “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
About the Host
Courtney Kocak is a writer, podcaster, and comedian based in Los Angeles. She wrote for Amazon’s Emmy-winning animated series Danger & Eggs and Netflix’s Know It All podcast. She’s Executive Produced a slew of highly-ranked podcasts and currently hosts two of her own: Private Parts Unknown, about love and sexuality around the world, with over 1.5 million downloads to date, and The Bleeders, about book writing and publishing. As a writer, her bylines include The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Cosmopolitan, BUST, Bustle, InsideHook, and more. Courtney reports on gender, sexuality, psychedelics, reproductive rights, sex work, and sustainability. She wrote a draft of her coming-of-age essay collection in Catapult’s 12-Month Essay Generator led by Chloe Caldwell and is currently rewriting it into a memoir-in-essays.
Further reading:
Cosmopolitan: My Tokyo Happy Ending Massage Changed Everything I Thought I Knew About Sex and Pleasure
LA Times: I begged him to be my boyfriend.
Washington Post: My breakup survival plan? Binge-reading the New York Time Vows column.
Courtney’s a contributor to InsideHook. This unhinged speed golf piece and this profile of a sex toy designer are her faves.
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