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The Grandest of Prizes (opens the original)
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It’s bittersweet to say goodbye to Be More Shameless, a month long experiment in promoting the work of authors while while exploring how hard it is to do that for your own work! I hope you found our interviews with Sonido Reyes, K. Ancrum, Kate O’Shaughnessy, <a href="https://rebeccastaffordauthor.substack.com/p/shamelessly-adoring-jessic
What’s next for our heroine (opens the original)
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I started writing this substack for a number of reasons.I wanted to be the kind of person who had a Substack. Check out my Substack, I’d say. You can follow me on Substack. Oh, I read that on Substack, which is where I host my award winning column on…something something. Basically, all the cool kids had substacks and I wanted in. I had recently received an ADHD and autism diagnosis, and I was trying to wrap my head around that. It seemed like exploring the impact of a late diagnosis could be int
Shamelessly Admiring...me? (opens the original)
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Be More Shameless came out of a conversation a few months ago between myself, Nancy Reddy, Erinn Batykefer, and Angela Voras Hills about how hard it is to promote your own work. My book, The Ending You Deserve, was coming on September 1, and every time I tried to promote it I felt sick and weird and tired and sad and other extremely technical psychological terms. I wasn’t alone in this feeling, of course, and as we tried to teas
A bonus from Jessica L. Cozzi! (opens the original)
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I’m so pleased to share with you a bonus from Jessica L. Cozzi! We featured an interview with her on Be more Shameless — check it out if you to hear more of her advice and learn about her process and writing! For now, tune in and learn — I know I did. Thanks for reading Fire Escape! Subscrib
Shamelessly Adoring Kate O'Shaughnessy (opens the original)
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This week in Be More Shameless, we are interviewing Kate O'Shaughnessy, award-winning author of middle grade and young adult novels. We’re also giving away an advance reader copy of A Season For Falling at the end of this post (plus some goodies!), so don’t wander off!<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eYFm!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fs
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