How To Be An Author: Practice Edition
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It seems, from the metrics I can see on the backend here, that y'all like this How To Be An Author series, and I'm so glad. I have so much to say about it and I'm energized to share it with you.
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Q&A Thursday: To Series or Not to Series
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It's Thursday and time for some Q&A!
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How All Your Questions About Writing are answered by the reader
First: News!
🎉Happy pub day to Alix E. Harrow's THE EVERLASTING, which has THREE starred reviews, is an Indie Next Pick and is in the Library Reads Hall of Fame. It's also GORGEOUS and you have to read it. Lady Knights! Devoted lovers! Time Loops! ✈️Attention
Bonus Q&A
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Last week was busy and I missed sending you a Q&A Thursday. I hate it when newsletters are all sorry I haven't posted in a while!!!! because tbh we're all kinda ok with not getting 100 email newsletters a week. BUT this
What's the Next Level and Who Can Take You There?
Hi friends,
I frequently see, in my query inbox and questions posted around the internet, authors looking for someone to take them to "the next level." Often, it's a self-published author who didn't find the success they wanted and now seek someone to help
Q&A Thursday: Community Edition
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I'm having a productive week. Huzzah! I'm also making a concerted effort to take it easy in other areas of my life so that the high of productivity doesn't bleed over into everything else and I end up burnt out. Balance! We
How To Be An Author: Book or Books?
Hi Y'all,
A prompt went around Bluesky this weekend, started by Rachel Feder, and it promptly broke containment. Of course I had to chime in. (Chiming in is my favorite.)
Throw away the first book you write.
— Kate McKean (@katemckean.bsky.social) 2025-10-13T20:57:30.737Z
I knew