HeyJaredGetting It Alli Together
After years of building communities around freelancing, podcasting, and books, I'm finally bringing it all together into one forum, where I'll share longer-form writing with my big thoughts, recommendations, pop culture takes, and more!
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Q3 2026 reading recap (opens the original)
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It’s practically October. Huh? How did that happen? As I’ve committed to doing at the end of every quarter of every year, I’m here to offer up a brief(ish) recap of my reading life over the last couple of months. This particular batch covers the back half of summer reading, as well as the start of the fall season, which has found me cuddled up on the couch by about 7:30 every night, trying very hard to make a dent in what I realize is a very aggressive, ambitious, and, yes, embarrassing TBR. Her
This is an embarrassing post about my *real* TBR (opens the original)
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Often, when we talk about our TBR (to-be-read) lists or piles, it’s in the abstract.“I’m adding this to my TBR.” “My TBR this month is out of control!” I do this myself and I know many of the other readers in my life do the same thing. But let’s be honest: most of us have real TBR piles, too. And in reality, those piles can get a liiiiiittle unwieldy. If you’re me, for example, they take over your bookshelves.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="htt
September 2026 Writing Update: New project, new agent, new vibes (opens the original)
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This is how long it’s been since I came through with an update on all things writing and publishing: when I was searching through my own newsletter archives to reference the best way to title this post and to link to the last one in the series, I had to refresh the page three times because I couldn’t believe how much scrolling I was doing. My last “official” writing update went live in December of last year. December! Of last year! It’s not like we haven’t caught up. I’ve checked in with updates
Why writing books after The First Book is different (opens the original)
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I started writing my first book in September of 2021.Well, technically I started writing my first book some time around 1997. And then I started writing—and, in some cases, finished—a handful of other books in the twenty-five years or so that followed. And then I wrote a book between 2020 and 2021 that I eventually decided was very bad… or at least not worth the time to revise and edit. But I started writing what become my first published<a href="https://allihoffkosik.co
10 books that give solid back-to-school vibes (opens the original)
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As I established in a post a couple of weeks ago, I don’t think there’s going to be a lot of love lost between me and this summer. (I never quite understood that saying, but a lot of people seem to and it fits in this context, so let’s go with it.) While I’m starting to see my way through the “messy middle” business that I felt myself drowning in for mo… Read more
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