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feelings

It Happened To Me

I Hate My Book

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baby clock

The Baby Clock

No, not that one

gift guide

Agents and Books Gift Guide!

Yes, these are all my clients

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craft

Are You Writing a Bad Book or the Wrong Book?

According to Sondheim

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If You Build it Again, Will They Come?

To Bluesky?

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debuts

Q&A Good Ole Thursday

Back in the Saddle Again

habits

Old Habits

Hardly Die

Newsletter

What I'm Doing Now

We gotta do something

feelings

It's Not a Race

And I'm not just talking about the election

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feelings

How Hating Halloween Helped Me Get Over Professional Jealousy

An Eerie Realization

Write Through It

Why Is It So Hard To Be Corrected?

Copyediting comes for us all

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cliches

Can't Help But

Irrational Feelings About Words

practice

I'll Learn the Scales at the Audition

On Practice and Being Bad at Things

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platforms

Q&A Saturday

pitching

What I Say to Writers Who Pitch Me at Conferences

And What I Don't

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memoir

You Don't Have to Monetize Your Trauma

You Can Write About Anything You Want

query

Gizmo vs Lilo

Comps are Vibes

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royalties

The Secret to Earning Royalties

This one simple trick

apologies

A Year of Queries

525,600 Queries

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queries

Q&A Friday

Landlubber Edition

pubday

This Book Saved Me

A Guest Post Exclusive

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data

Q&A Thursday

Data Edition

citations

All The Things I've Done Wrong

in my book

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pseudonyms

Q&A Thursday

Incognito Edition

novels

How to Build an Author Platform as a Novelist

In Three Easy Steps