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You could literally die tomorrow (opens the original)
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If you’d told me at the start of 2025 that my mom would be gone by the end of the year, I would have been very skeptical. I wouldn’t have laughed in your face because I think of morbid accidents happening all the time, but honestly? She seemed fine. It felt unlikely that she’d be gone so fast. So I wouldn’t have believed you.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zVeZ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3
I'm the nosiest person I know about other people's businesses (opens the original)
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I never thought of myself as someone who could be an “entrepreneur.” I went to school to become a doctor—and I did. Then I did a 180 and started a business writing about children’s books online. Although I had a couple years stint as a freelance writer for marketing software companies, I didn’t feel like a real Business OwnerTM until I started running Reading Middle Grade as a profitable business. <figur
Summer Report: Sometimes all you need is the promise of a reward. (opens the original)
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Happy September!The last time I wrote this newsletter was in May 🥲 We were on the brink of our first summer in Toronto and I was coming off of my Summer Reading Guide release on Reading Middle Grade.Now, it’s September. Three FULL summer months have gone and I haven’t written a word here. The truth is that I’ve been working so hard on nurturing my full-time business: Reading Middle Grade. <div class="embedded-publicatio
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