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Ep 189: 120 Rejections and Two Agents Later | Jane Bitomsky on Her Debut, Death by Misadventure
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Jane Bitomsky’s debut novel, Death by Misadventure, came out October 1, 2026 from Lake U…
13 hours ago
Ep 188: Forget About 30 Under 30 (with Beth Weinhouse and David Galef)
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I have a complicated relationship with 30 Under 30 lists. I'm genuinely happy for everyo…
1 week ago
Ep 187: A Former Random House Editor on Why She Stopped Checking Her Own Sales (with Anna Pitoniak)
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Anna Pitoniak spent years as a senior editor at Random House, wrote her first two novels…
2 weeks ago
Ep 186: Cassie Miller on Marketing, Publicity, and Meet Me on Mistletoe Lane
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She's back! Cassie Miller joined me last spring to talk about her debut, Meet Me Under t…
3 weeks ago
Ep 185: Kim Purcell on Writing a Novel in 100 Days
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After writing 6 nonfiction books, I'm working on my first novel, which everyone who list…
4 weeks ago
Ep 184: How a Weekly Substack Post Turned Into a Book Deal, with Katie Clapham
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Katie Clapham didn't set out to build an author platform. (Anyone else tired of that wor…
1 month ago
Ep 183: Developmental Editing, Beta Readers, and Knowing When Your Book Is Actually Ready (with Allison Buehner)
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I have been quietly fangirling over Allison Buehner's editing tips on Instagram for mont…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Ep 182: Laurie Notaro on Living Book to Book
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Laurie Notaro has hit the New York Times bestseller list more times than she can pin dow…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Ep 181: Joyce Maynard on Storytelling, Permission, and Who Gets to Tell the Truth
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Joyce Maynard has been publishing books for fifty-three years. In Wonderland is her four…
2 months ago
Ep 180: What First-Time Authors Need to Hear Before Querying an Agent (with Eli McCann)
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Eli McCann never planned to write a novel. He wrote one chapter kind of, maybe, to prove…
2 months, 1 week ago