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✨Still Not Convinced You Can Cut All That Backstory? Aisling Rawle's Breakout Debut Proves What Our Hosts Have Been Saying All Along✨
Also inside: a very "specific"😉 video from Lindsay Maple; Happy Birthday to CeCe Lyra; and our new favourite earworm!
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✨Solving the Mystery of How to Write Compelling Whodunnits with E.C. Nevin's "Suspect Equation"✨
Also inside: query critiques; the path to publication never runs smooth (even for buzzy books); how to fall in love with self-promotion; and how to spot…
✨Michelle Huneven Wants You to Know "Where All the Fun Is" (Hint: It's NOT at the Top of the Bestseller List)✨
Plus, it's Books with Hooks week on the podcast, literary agent Kate McKean is here with tips for surviving self-promotion, and Gloria Chao has a…
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✨Riley Sager Answers YOUR Questions; and From Touching Grass to Bleeding Screens: Alina Khawaja on How to Recharge Your Writing✨
Plus, Maggie Giles shares how community can help support achievement of your writing goals, and Kathleen West shares the seemingly anti-mantra mantra…
✨This Week on the Pod: Multiple-Genre Master and Generous & Unfailing Champion of Emerging Authors Everywhere...Our Very Own Bianca Marais!✨
Happy Friday, writing friends!
✨Marie Rutkoski Shares Her "Questionable" ( 😉) Secret to Hooking Readers and Driving Plot✨
Also inside: Query letters; writing duo Alison Hammer and Bradeigh Godfrey (aka Ali Brady) share our Q&A hotseat; and Mark Stevens fights failure with…
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