HeyJaredJillian Forsberg’s Substack
I write about writing - failure, success, and the in-betweens. I write about historical animals and the loss of their voices. I write about small business ownership. I write about how to take rejection and turn it into something beautiful.
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- Sep 29, 2026
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- Sep 21, 2026
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“Listen, father!”: A Newly Discovered 1,700-Year-Old Poem About Grief (opens the original)
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News sources reported today that an Ancient Greek poem was discovered in an Egyptian tomb. <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="841" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3b4v!,w_1456,c
Submission Mountain (opens the original)
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This first appeared in WRITER UNBOXED.Jillian Forsberg’s Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<div
How I Signed with One of Instagram’s Most-Followed Literary Agents: Jessica Berg (opens the original)
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In 2023, I started ambitiously querying a historical fiction novel called THE RHINO KEEPER. Rejections of that novel led me to my now-agent, Jessica Berg. She never even saw the query for that novel. Here’s the full story. I did all the right things: QueryTrackerPublisher’s MarketplaceHistorical Novel SocietyRevPitTwitter/X Pitches (it was teetering into the abyss of weird back then, but we still pitched on there!)I made author friends at events and supported them via socials and bought their bo
Do I have the time for Substack? (opens the original)
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Substack is the strangest thing for me. I’m a writer by nature, so an opportunity to write in a place where I’d have a willing and eager audience should be a bright, shiny thing. But it’s totally been the opposite and I know the reasons why. It’s a mental game: WHY would I subject myself to writing here when I could be producing 1,200 words of a fictional world where I’d rather be? Or the non-fiction bridal memoir that’s due to the University of Kansas Press by the end of the year? I know it’s v
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