HeyJaredPoetry, Prose, and Pep Talks
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- Jul 24, 2026
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Diversify Your Writing Portfolio (opens the original)
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Hey there, peepsicles! Looking for a little writing inspiration? My featured author post is up at 12x12 Picture Book Challenge…but it’s about sooo much more than picture books! Please check it out. Cheers!<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="818" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gM1X!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazon
Serendipity and the Uncanny (opens the original)
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This is a tale of the coincidental, the uncanny. And I know it’s my friend’s, (Laurel Leigh) doing from the other side of the scrim that separates our physical universe from the one beyond our perception. Laurel and I formed a writing group during a workshop we took together in San Francisco in 1999. Our friendship grew deeper as we earned our MFAs at San Francisco State and then took turns swirling through the Community of Writers at Tahoe and then sharing stories about what we had learned ther
Waiting for Godot?...or New Project Syndrome (opens the original)
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Someone in another sphere just asked me “Do you find that you usually know the mood of a new project early on, even if the details are still fuzzy?” And then this image came to me:<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1047" src="https://substa
To Panic...or Not to Panic... (opens the original)
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A couple of things happened following my launch of HEARTLAND on July 7 that sent me into a tailspin. HEARTLAND got some fantastic shout-outs from Colby Sharp (more than one)!!! And I was a little teary-eyed and excited and thrilled and all the things. But when I checked the Ingram app a few days after launch, I discovered there was no stock at Ingram! Bookshop.org was backordered! Barnes&Noble online was out of stock! A friend who tried to get it from a Barnes&Noble store was told they couldn’t
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