HeyJaredThe Book Shaman | Dave Reed
If you're a storyteller, helping you is my full-time job. As a book shaman, I collaborate with novelists and short fiction writers to develop and finish the best stories they can tell. My brand is: Better stories make better people.®
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What Are You Reading? September 2026 Edition (opens the original)
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Your Novel's Superpower (opens the original)
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The Traditional Novel Feedback Loop Is Borked (opens the original)
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Learning how to tell stories is a wicked skill precisely because of this long feedback cycle between writing a story and getting signals from other humans about whether it does what you intended … or not. But it doesn’t have to be this way.My fellow Scene Stormer expert editor and book coach, Kallista Ann, talks through all the difficulties of getting and using actionable feedback, and what you can do right now for free to get the best feedback you can even if you can’t afford a workshop or an e
Sell Yourself Short (opens the original)
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Discover or Defend (opens the original)
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