HeyJaredWords on the Street with Scott Colby
We're going to talk about writing, storytelling, culture, tech, and anything else that catches my attention.
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2026-39: Writers can learn a lot from working together (opens the original)
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I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the project I credit with giving me my start in the writing/editing/publishing-verse. Part of that’s because it was so helpful with networking; part of that’s because I do legitimately want to help other writers with their craft and their careers, like that project helped me with mine.And part of it’s because I really, really, really want to encourage aspiring writers to work with people and not the god damn plagiarism machine.<p class="cta-capti
2026-38: How you can keep your editing costs low (opens the original)
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Last week, a post claiming that high editing costs are driving writers to AI caused a storm on social media.More than enough has been said about it, so I’ll keep my response brief(ish): editors deserve a fair wage because this stuff is hard and work is work, and also AI still sucks at what we do, and creatives should avoid tools designed inherently to replace them that were built by stealing everybody’s stuff. Your audience isn’t a bunch of robots; they’re real, live people in whom you’re trying
2026-37: Marketing a book without driving yourself nuts (opens the original)
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With the ebook version of A Date with Death live and the paperback just waiting to be picked up by distributors, we’ve officially moved into the next phase of my journey to publish new editions of my Deviant Magic novels: marketing.I’ve written before (I think; I’m too lazy to check) about how easy it is for writers to burn themselves out on
2026-36: I didn’t realize publishing a book would require making so many decisions! (opens the original)
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As I’ve been finishing off the last bits of setup to publish a new editions of my contemporary fantasy novel, A Date with Death, I realized I was stopping every few minutes to research something.When should I release this thing? What’s the right price? How much do these keywords matter? Why do I need so many descriptions of varying lengths and what’s each of these actually for?Thanks for reading Words on the Street with Scott Colby! Subscribe for free to receive new
2026-35: A blast from the past (opens the original)
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If you’ve been writing for more than a few years, you really owe it to yourself to go back and read your earlier work.My current task in the never-ending saga that is publishing the new editions of Deviant Magic has been reworking the interior of A Date with Death. That meant converting the old PDFs back to Word files, loading those up into Atticus, then reading through the book in search of weird mistakes caused by that process. I’m also doing some very light proofreading and adding chapter tit
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