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with Isabel Sterling

Author & Master Certified Coach
How to Make Pass Pages Suck Less craft talk marketing mindset pass pages writing skills May 04, 2026

It's time to talk about theĀ least favorite stage of the publication process for most authors: Pass pages.

If you've never done pass pages before, this is when your publishing team has taken your copyedited manuscript and formatted it for printing. It's often the first time you're seeing the specifi...

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Essential Writing Skills for Authors copyedits craft talk email templates writing skills Mar 02, 2026

Welcome to the first in a four-part series ofĀ essential skills for published novelists!

Full-disclosure:Ā I started this as one big post of essential skills for debuts... and then quickly realized a twoĀ things:

1 - I had way too much to say to confine this to one post

2 - These are skills that a...

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Isabel Sterling

Author & Master Coach

Isabel Sterling writes stories about queer love and resilience with a witty magical twist. She is also a master certified life coach & the founder of The Confident Author Academy.

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