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Your Fall TBR Is About to Get Completely Out of Hand (opens the original)
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The Second Act is a weekly newsletter packed with obsessively-curated recommendations and ideas—let’s get to it!There are people who make summer reading lists, and then there are those of us who believe the real reading season begins the minute it becomes socially acceptable to stay inside with a book at 7 p.m.Fall publishing always feels a little overwhelming. Suddenly every author you love has a new book coming out, your library holds are multiplying faster than you can read them, and your car
What Your Manuscript Actually Needs (And How to Tell) (opens the original)
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A Note From Your Editor is your behind-the-scenes guide to making your manuscript stronger. Practical editing advice, revision strategies, and exercises to help you figure out what’s working, what isn’t, and what to do next. At some point in almost every draft, the writer starts to wonder if it would be easier to scrap the whole thing and begin again.Maybe you’ve finished your first draft and it doesn’t feel anything like the book you imagined.Maybe you’re 40,000 words in and something feels off
Catch Up No. 47: The September Things I’m Keeping (opens the original)
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Your end-of-week scroll break. A cozy little catch-up full of links, loves, and things I can’t stop talking about. A spark of inspiration you didn’t know you needed.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1080" src="https://s
10 Historical Fiction Books to Read This Fall (opens the original)
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The Most Common Mistakes I See in Early Drafts (opens the original)
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A Note From Your Editor is your behind-the-scenes guide to making your manuscript stronger. Practical editing advice, revision strategies, and exercises to help you figure out what’s working, what isn’t, and what to do next.Finishing a first draft is a very strange kind of accomplishment!For about twelve seconds, you get to think: I wrote a book. And then: Oh no. I wrote a book.Because finishing the draft is one thing. Figuring out what to do with it is something else entirely.Maybe you reread t
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