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What Should I Be Doing?

What Should I Be Doing?

A rough timeline for writers

Kate McKean
Oct 10, 2019
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Hi friends,

Longtime readers will know that I’ve said there’s no one way to write, sell, or publish a book before. That means there’s no road map for what any one writer should be doing at any given time. So much of the publishing process is out of writers’ hands—editing, production, marketing, sales—and it’s natural that writers feel at loose ends when…

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