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Q&A Thursday

Vulnerable Edition

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90 Or So Things I Did In a Year To Promote My Book

And What You Can Learn From It

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All Your Problems Will be Solved by Talking to Your Agent for Five Minutes

And what to do if you don't have an agent

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WIP: How's It Going?

For You and For Me

A black and white photo of a large IBM computer from the 1960s with a white woman sitting at desk at a typewriter in front of it.

Q&A Thursday

Statistical Edition

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How To Sell Books and Influence People

Well, one way at least

a black and white photo of runners at a startling line of a marathon in Riga, 1991.

Q&A Thursday

Run Your Own Race edition

A black and white photograph of a small bird on top of a slice of cake. Titled: Taking the cake. Photograph by Louise Birt Baynes.

20 Things I Learned From 20 Years as an Agent

Happy Anniversary to me. And a Giveaway!

An old movie add for Her Second Chance. At the top of the image, a woman shakes her fist at a man across the table, with the text "You'll never forget me as long as you live!"

Do You Ever Get a Second Chance With Your First Agent?

a park bench covered in piles of books

Should You Just Get Your Book Out There?

A black and white photo of a man holding a cue card and a skinny microphone. He is a game show host and there are two white women behind him holding cards that say Easy and Hard.

Q&A Thursday

And Some Agents & Books Perks For You!

a gray cartoon cat in front of a rainbow background. Text reads: *Demands attention* and *hits you* in white text.

I Have A Secret To Tell You

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Does Publishing Have to Be This Hard?

A Feelings Post

Cats, Dogs, and Lava-Mermaids

Cats, Dogs, and Lava-Mermaids

An Interview with Illustrator Rob Justus