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March 15, 2023

It's our fourth birthday!

Welcome to our annual price update and birthday blog!TL;DRNew rates are in the table below Prices go into effect on Monday, April 16, 2023 Courses and events are coming soon We now offer video chats It sounds sappy, but we’re serious.
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Published on March 15, 2023 12:00

March 9, 2022

Price Updates 2022

Hello everyone!Welcome to our annual price update.This post has a lot of information, so here���s the TL;DR:New rates are in the table below Prices go into effect on April 4, 2022 All edits now have a baseline 4-week turnaround Salt and Sage Books is turning three this year!
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Published on March 09, 2022 11:06

April 26, 2021

Stories are . . . Glasses for the Soul

It’s no small thing to be the author of a story. Stories contain multitudes, and they can impact multitudes as well. What invitations are your stories extending to your readers? Who are you inviting them to meet? How might those meetings affect their interactions with real life people with the same (or similar) identities?
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Published on April 26, 2021 10:23

March 11, 2021

Salt & Sage Books Price Updates

It’s Salt & Sage Books’ second birthday! Thank you so much for being part of our editing family. We appreciate the energy you all bring to your edits, the intentionality with which you include diversity, and the changes you are making in the world because of who you are.
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Published on March 11, 2021 15:03

January 22, 2021

Taye Timko's Review of Girl, Woman, Other

Girl, Woman, Other, Taye: a Review of Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristoby Taye TimkoAs an avid reader and ever-changing individual, I have often felt stuck in the middle of the ���aisle������virtual or literal���of my local library or in my digital bookstores trying to decide what aspect of my identity to explore.
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Published on January 22, 2021 16:43

December 31, 2020

Why You Should Track Your Writing

I started 2020 with a lot of goals: I was angling to break the most words written in a year, I had two writing conferences lined up, we were going to go on a long-anticipated trip to visit my parents, I was going to do spin classes at the YMCA.
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Published on December 31, 2020 18:58

December 14, 2020

Orcs and "Evil Races" in Fantasy

Orcs and “Evil Races” in Fantasy by Helen Gould
When most people think of an orc, it���s likely that the first thing they think of are the creatures from The Lord of the Rings. On the surface, looking at it from a ���traditional��� Western fantasy view of good guys vs.
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Published on December 14, 2020 15:07

November 29, 2020

Write Your Candy Dragons

Write Your Candy Dragons
by Tova Seltzer
Anyone who has ever pushed past the fantasy of ���being a writer��� and actually written can tell you that writing isn���t always fun. It���s not always sitting down dreamily at an antique desk with a big mug of herbal tea, looking out over a cozy snowy vista, and letting the words flow easily for hours on end until you have a perfect draft.
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Published on November 29, 2020 09:28

November 11, 2020

Short Story Advice from the ���Bad Friend��� Music Video

Short Story Advice from the ���Bad Friend��� Music Video
By Cameron Van Sant
When Elton John says someone has the ���the strongest album of the year so far,��� and it���s only their debut, you know we���re talking about a legend in the making. Rina Sawayama is a genre-hopping singer who has been quietly putting out fantastic songs for years, only to finally have a deserved explosion into the zeitgeist with her album Sawayama.
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Published on November 11, 2020 18:03

October 28, 2020

David Pena's Trans-inclusive, Bilingual Horror Podcast Dos: After You

Thank you to our sensitivity reader David Pena, for answering our questions about his new horror podcast!
David Pena Born and raised in Madrid, Spain, David is an editor and writer with a background in Psychology who loves books as much as he loves people.
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Published on October 28, 2020 17:55