A Not So Simple Favour
It began as a simple favour, and ended in bitterness and rancour.
Amra's Armchair Anecdotes
Welcome to Amra’s Armchair Anecdotes! I’m Amra Pajalić—writer, teacher, and storyteller. Pull up a chair, and let’s dive into stories about writing, life, and lessons learned—sharing wisdom from my armchair to yours. https://linktr.ee/amrapajalicauthor
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The Lessons I Needed to Hear (When I Was Quietly Burning Out)
Article based on Amra's Armchair Anecdotes episode 34-Start Messy, Start Anyway (How an Instagram Live Grew Into a Whole Community), interviewing Mirela Cufurovic
Book Review: Her Hidden Bones by Fiona Tarr
Reading Journal Project: 20 Books a Year
34-Start Messy, Start Anyway (How an Instagram Live Grew Into a Whole Community), interviewing Mirela Cufurovic
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I Cried Like I’d Lost a Lover: My Type 2 Diabetes and Ozempic Diary
When I was first diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, my daughter was with me.
Book Review: Yesteryear
Reading Journal Project: 20 Books a Year
One Scary Thing a Week (What a Poet Taught Me About Showing Up)
Adapted from Amra's Armchair Anecdotes episode 33-How One Scary Thing a Week Won a National Award (After a Decade Indoors), interviewing Krystle Herdy
33-How One Scary Thing a Week Won a National Award (After a Decade Indoors), interviewing Krystle Herdy
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One of Us is Dead by Jeneva Rose
Reading Journal Project: 20 Books a Year
AI Detection Has a Race Problem
As an educator and an author, I am following discussions about AI use in writing from two different angles.
The Auntie Who Says the Quiet Part Out Loud
Adapted from Amra's Armchair Anecdotes episode 32-How a Viral Comedy Character Sold Out Her Debut Novel (Without Bookstore Gatekeepers), interviewing Jelena Curic
32-How a Viral Comedy Character Sold Out Her Debut Novel (Without Bookstore Gatekeepers), interviewing Jelena Curic
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The Book Won’t Sell Itself: What Warren Rankin Taught Me About Memoir, Vulnerability and the Hustle
Adapted from Amra's Armchair Anecdotes episode 31-Why Most People Never Tell the Truth About Their Childhood, interviewing Warren Rankine
The Buffallo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
Reading Journal Project: 20 Books a Year
We don’t have too many books. We have a broken model that eats itself.
Amra’s Authorly Advice: Craft, Career, and Creative Grit
31-Why Most People Never Tell the Truth About Their Childhood, interviewing Warren Rankine
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Beyond Amazon: What IngramSpark Really Does — and Why Every Indie Author Needs to Know
Adapted from Amra's Armchair Anecdotes Podcast episode 30-Publishing Without Gatekeepers: Freedom, Risk and Reinvention, interviewing Ingram Spark
Book review: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
I started The Buffalo Hunter Hunter on the 12th of March and finished it on the 26th — 431 pages in hardback, and I absolutely adored it.
I Didn’t Mean to Write a Crime Series (But Here We Are)
People assume writers sit down with everything mapped out—six novels planned, character journeys charted, themes perfectly interlaced from page one.
30-Publishing Without Gatekeepers: Freedom, Risk and Reinvention, interviewing Ingram Spark
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