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A Six-Figure Income in 2-4 Hours a Day

Hiya writer friends,  Like most long-time freelancers, I’ve had to reinvent my writing career multiple times. More so because I’m easily bored and the moment something becomes a specialty, instead of doubling down and using it to further my career, I go off to do something new and exciting that will challenge me (and drop […]

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I lied. I got stuck. I’m finding my way.

Hi friends, Spring 2018. I’m on a Facebook livestream with two dozen writers, answering questions, helping people think through ideas, and suggesting next steps, when a question stops me in my tracks:  “Would you rather be called a writing coach or a writing instructor?”  I falter. I hesitate. I’m suddenly nervous and I’m not sure […]

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Why I’m Crowdfunding My Next Book

Hi friends, I was on a Zoom call with a group of media entrepreneurs last month, one of them a successful award-winning documentary maker who had recently run a crowdfunding campaign that hadn’t succeeded.  “I’ve been saying for a long time that crowdfunding is harder than VC funding,” someone chimed in and literally everyone on […]

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As Creative Entrepreneurs, We Want Ownership of Our Work

Hi writer friends, Ruthless. That’s how I felt the other day after I culled 1,800+ email addresses from this newsletter.  That’s right, deleted them right off.  Not subscribers who read and engage with this newsletter, mind you. Just people who’ve been on this list for several months and don’t read, don’t engage, don’t even open. […]

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The World Is Made Up Of My Friends

Hi friends, I’m flying high from a comment I got from an editor on a query letter for one of my books. “This is one of the best pitches I’ve read in my career,” she said.  I used to get this sort of feedback from magazine and newspaper editors all the time, but it’s the […]

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Know Your Publishing Goals Before Signing A Book Contract

Hi friends, I’ve been incredibly overwhelmed this week, but in the best possible way. In the last few weeks, I’ve had an article on London’s lost rivers published in Discover magazine, received amazing feedback on another short story on Vocal, finished a big project for SparkLoop, kicked off Write With Me 2022, and pored over pages and pages […]

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How Will Readers Find Your Books?

Hi friends, Sometimes, you have to kill a novel. Your darlings, as Stephen King would say, though I don’t think even he was that ruthless. I’d planned to finish final revisions for my third novel in November. Then, this happened: So, I had to do what all of us will have to do at some point in […]

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How will readers find your books?

Hi friends, Sometimes, you have to kill a novel. Your darlings, as Stephen King would say, though I don’t think even he was that ruthless. I’d planned to finish final revisions for my third novel in November. Then, this happened: So, I had to do what all of us will have to do at some point in […]

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A New Phase: Experiments in Publishing

Hey fam, I like to start these notes as though we’re in the middle of a conversation, but so much has happened in this last month that I feel I need to catch you up. So, first, I started working with a tech company to build out all their content and even though I’m only […]

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You’re Right To Doubt The Quality of Your Writing

Hi friends, There is no ladder, no straight path, no one road for a writer to follow, which sometimes makes us believe that the problems we face early on in our careers are the same problems we’ll face as we gain more experience. They’re not. Or at least, they shouldn’t be.  For the first five […]

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