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✨How to Guilt-Trip an Agent into Reading Your Query. Plus, Query Critiques Inside; & Meet Your Dream Agent✨ (opens the original)
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Happy Tuesday, writing friends!Last week was an especially mind-blowing📕Books with Hooks 🪝week on the podcast (because of all that hell freezing over with Carly getting weepy and CeCe not wanting any interiority!), so you’ll definitely want to work through Carly’s and CeCe’s written query critiques below! Also, yesterday was the September Bonus Episode day on the podcast in which we knocked it out the park by featuring two megastar authors, Emily St. John Mandel</stro
✨When Hell Freezes Over on the Podcast. Plus, When to Rip It Up and Start Again✨ (opens the original)
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Happy Friday, writing friends!In this week’s📕Books with Hooks🪝, Olivia Haberman joins the team to discuss her upmarket novel submission! We know you probably think you’ve heard it all by now, but this episode will make you question everything you thought you knew! Not only does CeCe say she doesn’t want any more interiority (PARDON?), Carly also tears up! Hell has frozen over, folks! So don’t miss it!Harriet Tyce, author of Witch Trial, pens an excellent essay titled Ri
✨Managing the Burnout. Plus, Meet Your Dream Agent!✨ (opens the original)
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Happy Tuesday, writing friends!Yesterday was Shooting the Shit day on the podcast. As usual, make sure you don’t miss out on CeCe and Carly spilling all the publishing tea. 🫖They’ll say their knives are for cutting the crusts off their fancy sandwiches, but don’t be fooled! 🗡️😂Today’s essay is by Megan Mostyn-Brown author of The Need. It’s titled Fill ‘Er Up and it’s about managing burnout. Timely because everyo
✨Fast Drafting for Dummies✨ (opens the original)
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Happy Friday, writing budlets!Wow! Did you listen to yesterday’s podcast which showcased not one, but two, publishing legends! The first was Isabel Allende who chatted with CeCe about Isabel’s latest book, Storytelling: A Writing Life. And the second was Jodi Picoult, who chatted with Bianca about Hollow Bones. Anyone with the kind of awe-inspiring longevity each of these women has maintained in the publishing industry should be studied. Be prepared to take notes!<
✨NINE Query Critiques Inside! Plus, an Outlining Process to Help Draft a Book in 3 Months✨ (opens the original)
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Happy Tuesday, writing BFFs!Holy shiznet, Batman. Be prepared to have your mind blown by today’s Substack. Like, seriously! 🤯 We ain’t messing around here, people. Last week was 📕Books with Hooks🪝week on the podcast, so you’ll find CeCe’s and Carly’s usual four query critiques below! But that’s not all!! 👀 Back in August, the three hosts travelled to Calgary for When Worlds Collide for their first ever live Books with Ho
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