✨Emma Grey Shares Three Lessons She Learned the Hard Way So You Don't Have To; and the Joys of Co-Authoring with Lee Kelly and Jennifer Thorne✨

Plus, the Great Beta Reader Match Up is back, and we recap our Deep Dive Series speakers in advance of Friday's final big reveal!

Happy Tuesday, writing friends!

This life you’ve chosen can be a lonely one. Day after day, locked away in your writing hidey-hole, wondering if you’re the only one who’s ever going to read the brilliant, genre-bending thing you’ve just written. Wondering if it is actually brilliant, or if this work you’ve just squandered some of the best years of your life on is, in fact, more akin to Sherlock Holmes fan fiction written by a teenage alien using only the contents of a magnetic poetry kit after learning English from a cereal box.

We’ve all been there, right?

But what if instead you had a partner in crime? If you’ve ever found yourself daydreaming about collaborating with another writer, today’s video from co-authors Lee Kelly and Jennifer Thorne is for you. They get into the different ways you can go about co-authoring, the parts of the publishing journey that are more fun with a writing partner than when working alone, the qualities to look for in a collaborator…and more! 💻✍🏼💻

First up, though, is an essay from multi-talented author Emma Grey (she’s written YA, non-fiction, memoir, and even musicals!), whose adult fiction debut, The Last Love Note, was selected for the Book of the Month and Target Book clubs, and was a bestseller in the U.S. Now, With 37 years of writing experience under her belt, Emma knows a thing a thing or two, and with her latest adult novel, Pictures of You, hitting shelves today, she’s agreed to share with our readers the three big lessons she’s learned over the course of writing journey.

Today we also recap the Deep Dive Series speakers we’ve shared so far, in advance of Friday’s final big reveal. And it’s just a little more than two weeks until registration opens—don’t forget to sign up to get a reminder so you don’t miss out on early bird pricing!

That’s all for now. Happy reading!

❤️ The Shit No One Tells You About Writing Team