HeyJaredFrom My Island to Yours: Andromeda's Adventures in Authoring
The author newsletter of novelist and book coach Andromeda Romano-Lax, author of WHAT BOYS LEARN, THE DEEPEST LAKE, ANNIE & THE WOLVES, PLUM RAINS, BEHAVE, THE DETOUR, and THE SPANISH BOW
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Sylvia Lives (opens the original)
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What I Got Right and Wrong About “The Pause,” plus a Read Your Work Aloud Challenge (opens the original)
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I’m back from Northern Ireland and England and it was such an amazing and productive trip, exceeding my expectations in every way and confirming my belief that in-person research is essential. The Belfast visit was especially intense, but I’m not ready to report on that yet, so I’ll start with something simpler: later this week at my other Substack, Present Tense, I’ll share about the super fun day I had visiting Agatha Christie’s hometown of Wallingford and how what I saw is already informing m
What AI can’t teach me about Northern Ireland and why I’m going there now to research my next novel (opens the original)
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Time’s running out to nab the last spot in the Craft+Publishing Voyage on the Queen Mary 2, where I will be teaching with Allison K Williams and Jessica Berg, Sept 5-12. That’s in 18 days! A truly one-of-a-kind experience. If you are tempted, act quickly. Need to ask me anything? Please do. Also: my next opening for full manuscript clients is October 15, 2027. Read more about my coaching here. Email me via my website here or if you have the Substack below, you can DM me.<d
Last Sunday I Came This Close to Quitting (opens the original)
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Last week, with equal parts difficulty and gratitude, I finished my third half Ironman 70.3 race, in Calgary. Full Ironmans feel nearly impossible1. Half Ironmans—a 1.2-mile swim, 56-mile bike, and 13.1 mile run—should feel easy if you’ve already done a full, I used to think. Calgary proved that wasn’t so. No two races are alike, and distance doesn’t tell you everything. I don’t want to dwel
Everything Is Interesting (opens the original)
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Hello! I am the author of What Boys Learn, a suspense novel, as well as six other novels spanning the genres of suspense, historical, speculative, and literary fiction. I am also a book coach and developmental editor.In 1972 Northern Ireland during the Troubles—the thirty-year conflict between pro-Republican and pro-UK loyalist factions—an average of three bombs went off every day. On a July day in Belfast later known as “Bl
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