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ideas

Ask Not What The Reader Can Do For Your Book

You Know Where I'm Going With This

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query letter

Q&A Thursday

Catching Up Edition

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lists

On Being an Agent for Eighteen Years

A List

productivity

On Filtering Out the Noise

It's All Noise

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agents

Q&A Friday

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editing

I Have So Much Work To Do And I Can't Wait

On editing mountain

bestseller list

A Proposal: The Bestsellers Hall of Fame

NYT, call me

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marketing

What book should I take on vacation?

launch

What I'm Doing to Prepare For My Book Launch

Which Will be Sometime in Spring 2025

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trunked books

Q&A Thursday

Trunked Edition

craft

I Made the Worst Scarf lol

And I love it

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sequels

Q&A Friday

Am I Allowed? Edition

bestseller list

Why the Bestseller List Should Not Be Your Goal

Eff the List

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contests

Q&A Thursday

Wait! Stop! Don't! Edition

feelings

How Much More Can You Take?

On Fortitude and Books

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queries

Q&A Thursday

Broadly Speaking Edition

feelings

Author Questionnaire

What a pain in the

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queries

Q&A Thursday

The Five Month Answer

feelings

You're Probably Going to Annoy an Agent at Some Point

And it absolutely does not matter

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submissions

Q&A Thursday!

On Time for Once

plot

Big Swing at a Big Pitch

Fail Big

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vibes

Q&A Friday

More Comps and Vibes

nudges

A Nudge

For Me and You

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memoir

Q&A Thursday

the market

What Makes a Market Tough?

And not in a cool way