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How To Be An Author: What You Don't Need

Hello Friends! In our continuing series on How To Be An Author, I'm excited to talk today about what you DON'T need to reach your writing goals. In this season of it's time to buy everything! and surprise everything is more expensive! I'

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How To Be An Author: What's Your Next Book About?

Hi friends! In our continuing series on How To Be An Author, today I want to talk about IDEAS and how to make them into books. Sort of. Writers have tricky relationship with ideas–whether that means having too many, too few, or paralyzing anxiety about which ones to actually

How To Be An Author: Practice Edition

Hello friends, 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.