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What the #1 Fiction Dealmaker on Publishers Marketplace Does With Your Query with Mark Gottlieb (opens the original)
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Start Here | Dispatches | Debriefs | AboutIn this month’s Debrief+, and I talked about a question that plagues new writers:What actually happens to my query after I hit send?We also
Perspective (opens the original)
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Start Here | Dispatches | Debriefs | AboutHello and welcome to Drafts, Deals & Detours. This is your weekly-ish dispatch.Dispatch #7: DetoursFocus: Substack Stats for Writer-ishWhat I’m Feeling: Calmer-ish</blockq
What It Means to Be a Writer Now with Jeannine Ouellette (opens the original)
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Start Here | Dispatches | Debriefs | AboutMany writers know as the founder of Writing in the Dark, a vibrant Substack writing community she grew from a list of about 600 former students into a newsletter w
In the Bardo (or, Revision) (opens the original)
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Start Here | Dispatches | Debriefs | AboutHello and welcome to Drafts, Deals & Detours. This is your weekly-ish dispatch.Dispatch #6: DraftsFocus: Object Lessons manuscriptWhat I’m Feeling: Clarity
Writing Without a Net with Allison K. Williams (opens the original)
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Start Here | Dispatches | Debriefs | AboutMany writers know as the author of Seven Drafts: Self-Edit Like a Pro From Blank Page to Book, Managing Editor of The Brevity Blog, co-founder of <a href="https://writingcraft.com
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