How Kirsty Greenwood's Future Self Keeps Her Motivated to Write

Plus, an interview with kid-lit author Carolyn Crimi, and two brand-new query critiques just for you!

Dear friends of The Sh*t,

It’s somehow already July and we hope you’ve been managing to strike a balance between heads-down writing time and spending time outside, resting, and recharging—trust us, your WIP will thank you when you come back to it refreshed.

We practice what we preach here at TSNOTYAW, so our hosts are temporarily hitting pause on the podcast’s regular📕Books with Hooks🪝segment to take a much-deserved break for July and August. But fear not! We’re making sure you continue to get fresh querying insights weekly with two written query evaluations from Carly and CeCe every Tuesday for the next two months—exclusively for you, our paid subscribers—starting today.

This edition also features romance writer Kirsty Greenwood doing our weekly Author Q&A. We love her go-to pep talk for when writing feels hard—it’s a great reminder to not lose of sight of who you should be trying to please with this whole writing thing (hint: it’s not the critics!).

Happy reading (and viewing)!

❤️ The Shit No One Tells You About Writing Team