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Be Less Careful

unpacking the bad ideas that steal our joy // creative work & midlife reinvention

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Summer School: erasing the past, writing the future with Starr Davis

A recording from Nancy Reddy's live video

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Summer School: bending genre in memoir with Erica Stern

finding permission to be weird and a special discount on FRONTIER, plus next week's Summer School session about writing erasure and working in a series, with Starr Davis

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Summer School: diy your marketing and publicity with Samantha Paige Rosen

four proven strategies for building buzz around your book, plus this week's Summer School session about speculation in memoir, and a discount code for some phenomenal upcoming Blue Stoop workshops

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good creature Laurin Becker Macios on her YA novel in verse CALLING ME HOME

on turning to fiction during naptimes, escaping to an Airbnb for bursts of generative writing, and realizing that "while writing can wait, mothering can't"

finding your audience with Cassie Mannes Murray of Pine State Publicity

"pitch the vibes, not the plot," and other super smart ways of thinking about finding readers for your work

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The Underrated Benefit of Going to Lots of Local Meetings

if you like the Normal Gossip podcast, I bet you'd love actual normal gossip about the place where you live

finding community in your writing life with Heather Bowlan

community as a "survival mechanism" for our times, plus practical tips for meeting writers where you live

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"In challenging times like these, we must lean into the light and uplift each other."

poet and poet laureate of Texas Amanda Johnston on her new anthology Praise Song for the People, plus next week's Summer School session with Cassie Mannes Murray and so many more poetry resources!

School's almost out! Summer School's in session!

a Summer Fridays flashback on writing multiple POVs plus a good #1000Words idea and an invitation to join me at a LOCAL AUTHOR EXTRAVAGANZA in Philly next week!

writing your way into truth with Gemma Hartley

the recording, synopsis, and BONUS RESOURCE from our second Summer School session!

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