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Kate McKean
May 01, 2025
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Hey friends,

Let’s answer some questions! As always, if YOU have a question for our Q&A Thursdays, you can submit it by email (just respond to a Thursday email—if you’re a paying subscriber) and I’ll put it in the queue! No question is too small or too big. (Just don’t pitch your book.)

M asks: So a little context. I self-published a book about my experience as a gay, HIV+ man in prison in 2017, [detailed explanation about how the author self-published a book in prison, which got noticed by a reporter who write a big magazine article, which got notice by a film agent and got optioned by a producer, but that TV idea didn’t make it into production. Then a podcast producer noticed and released two beautiful episodes about his story—redacted for length.]

Here's my question: Is it possible to shop the podcast itself as a book proposal, a prequel to the prison memoir? The book would greatly expand on the content of the podcast, but the

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