HeyJaredBrigham Editorial Newsletter
From surviving the query trenches to leveling up your writing, Brigham Editorial is a necessary resource for authors.
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RevPit: I’m Baaaaaaaaccccckkkkkk (opens the original)
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This past spring was one of the busiest times of my life, which meant I had to take the year off from RevPit. This of course was massively disappointing because the RevPit community is my very favorite online writing community, and believe me when I say I felt its absence.<img alt="J
September Newsletter (opens the original)
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Talking Yourself Into Believing You BelongTo enter the press area of the United Center in Chicago, reporters would have to check in at Gate 3 1/2, go through the metal detector, and pick up a media credential before heading down a long concrete staircase. At the base of those stairs were two heavy steel doors, and beyond that… was a dream come true. Every time I’d press through the weight of those doors to cover a Chicago Bulls game, I’d find myself in a wide corridor where, to the right, I’d fi
Check Out My Latest Podcast Appearance! (opens the original)
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In my August Newsletter, I teased that I would soon be appearing on the Writers with Wrinkles podcast, and I feel it necessary (in the name of self-promotion) to let you know that the episode is live. You can listen to it wherever you get your podcasts, but here’s the episode home page with direct links to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Castro, and RSS if you want to get right to business:https://www.writerswithwrinkles.net/the-4-first-page-mistakes-that-get-you-rejected-fast-with-editor-joel-brigham/
August Newsletter (opens the original)
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How to Handle That Prologue of Yours…Back when I was still chronically online, there were a few sure-fire ways to boost my engagement on the authors’ corner of social media:Talk trash about semicolons.Talk trash about em-dashes.Talk trash about prologues.Oh, the OUTRAGE! My beloved #WritingCommunity darlings would turn into the townspeople from Beauty and the Beast, charging alongside Gaston to hunt me down like the dog I am.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.
July Newsletter (opens the original)
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What Do Publishers WANT? (And How Can We Give it to Them Without Sacrificing Our Art?)Few things are more crushing than finding out that your book isn’t “marketable” until after you’ve finished writing it.I’ve had writers tell me they don’t care whether their manuscript ever gets published; they just want help maximizing their own artistic vision, book sales be damned. Others are too obsessed with “the market,” chasing trends or dumping months and years into projects they don’t necessarily love,
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