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pitches

Q&A Friday

What Not To Do Edition

begin again

What hath thou wrought?

And will it be published?

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events

How To Tell if Your Book Idea is Any Good

Even Before You Write the Whole Thing

numbers

Why Do We Always Expect the Number to Go Up?

Which numbers? All of them.

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genres

Dispatches from the Slush Pile

An assortment of thoughts

expectations

On Trust, Dumb Jokes, and Amusement Park Rides

What I learned on my summer vacation

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editing

Q&A Friday

Diamond in the Rough Edition

fiction

Destination: Publication?

Lindsay King-Miller on the Journey of Writing and Publishing

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literary fiction

Q&A Thursday

How do you like them apples edition

Promotion

Mattie Lubchansky and The Simplicity of It All

an interview about promo, touring, and cute shoes

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titles

Q&A Thursday

communication

Honest Answers to the Questions New Clients Ask on the First Call

It's both 👍 and 👎

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events

Genre Scaffolding

What's holding up your beautiful story?

social media

How's Your Book Doing?

An Interview with...Me

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out of print

Q&A Thursday

Armored Edition

non-fiction proposals

My Friend Glynnis Hates Book Proposals

and why she's wrong

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contracts

Q&A Thursday

Is this normal edition

querytracker

What's in a Wish List?

How to figure out what agents actually want

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novels

Is Your Novel a Screenplay?

Or vice versa?

interview

Take Me Away

Should you go on a writers retreat?

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feelings

Q&A Thursday

you are not a failure edition

pubday

Today's the Day

For many of us

pub week

Buckle Up

It's Pub Week, Betches

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rejection

What's So Bad About Rejection?

It's the most common thing in the world

advice

It Should Not Be This Hard to Find an Agent

Except...... (And an Excerpt)