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query tracker

Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Query Letter?

Everyone

platform

Query Letters

Once More With Feeling

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queries

Q&A Thursday

Official Edition

writing practice

How To Write a Hit Pitch

In Four Easy (Not Easy) Steps

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literary agents

Can Literary Agents Change Literature?

Should we? Will we?

advice

Do One Thing

Taking my own advice

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new books

Q&A Thursday

talk to your agent edition

feelings

Why I'm Not Anxious About Publication Day

because I already know what's going to happen

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vibes

Q&A Thursday

exhaustion

What It's Like to Record Your Audiobook

tl:dr it's fun!

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submissions

Q&A Thursday

overthinking it edition

swag

Should You Buy Swag For Your Book?

It's fun! But should you?

feelings

Running on Empty

Sorry to get that song stuck in your head

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author/agent relationship

Q&A Thursday

scams

What Does a Scam Email Look Like?

Just Like This

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cold calls

How to Write a Cold Email

Not Cold as in Being a Jerk

practice

Making Something Without Making Something

Not every novel is a sweater

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Q&A

A Q&A Thursday Question I Didn't Know How to Answer

An Agents & Books First

feelings

Oh God People Are Going To Read My Book

And other new-found horrors

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writing practice

I Tried to Write Yesterday

and this is what happened

memoir

The Least Important Part of Your Book

is why you wrote it

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pitch

My Favorite Genres

are full of nouns

option

Quick Primer on Publishing Terms

Does that thing mean what you think it means?

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submissions

Q&A Thursday

author website

What Must Be on Your Author Website?

is the wrong question