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Are You Writing a Bad Book or the Wrong Book?

If You Build it Again, Will They Come?

Q&A Good Ole Thursday

Old Habits

What I'm Doing Now

It's Not a Race

How Hating Halloween Helped Me Get Over Professional Jealousy

Why Is It So Hard To Be Corrected?

Can't Help But

I'll Learn the Scales at the Audition

Q&A Saturday

What I Say to Writers Who Pitch Me at Conferences

You Don't Have to Monetize Your Trauma

Gizmo vs Lilo

The Secret to Earning Royalties

A Year of Queries

Q&A Friday

This Book Saved Me

Q&A Thursday

All The Things I've Done Wrong

Q&A Thursday

How to Build an Author Platform as a Novelist

Q&A Thursday

I'M DONE WITH MY BOOK!

Q&A Friday

Should You Self-Pub or Trad Pub?

Behind the Publishing Curtain

Compulsory Rest

What a Book About Publishing Can Tell You About Marketing

Should You Be On TikTok?

Q&A Thursday

What You Need to Know to Work in Publishing

Has Anything Changed Since 1982?

Big Swiss Takes a Big Swing

I'm Not Going to Reach My Goal This Year

When To Follow Up

Q&A Friday

A Thread instead of a Screed

This is Why Book Marketing Doesn't Work

Q&A Thursday

How Not to be Unhinged

Should You vs Can You

You Had to be a Big Shot

When Do Agents Turn into Ghosts?

Draft #2

Q&A Thursday

Setting Expectations

Q&A Thursday

Ask Not What The Reader Can Do For Your Book

Q&A Thursday

On Being an Agent for Eighteen Years

On Filtering Out the Noise

Q&A Friday

Where Do You Find Community?

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

A Proposal: The Bestsellers Hall of Fame

What book should I take on vacation?

What I'm Doing to Prepare For My Book Launch

Q&A Thursday

I Made the Worst Scarf lol

Q&A Friday

Why the Bestseller List Should Not Be Your Goal

Q&A Thursday

How Much More Can You Take?

Q&A Thursday

Author Questionnaire

Q&A Thursday

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

Q&A Thursday!

Big Swing at a Big Pitch

Q&A Friday

A Nudge

Q&A Thursday

What Makes a Market Tough?

Q&A Friday

How To Blurb

Q&A Thursday

How to Reset

Being a Full-Time Writer is the Worst Job

How Do I Know If I Have a Good Idea?

Q&A Thursday

The Answer to Editing

Q&A Thursday

How Does This Idea Sound To You?

First Q&A of 2024

Another Year in Reading