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213. Settling Your Book Launch Anxiety
If your book’s impending release has you feeling more stressed than excited, you’re not alone.
It’s incredibly normal to have lots of conflicting feelings as you get closer to release day. There’s worry your book will...
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212. Choosing Your Career Comps
You’re probably familiar with picking comp titles for your books, but have you ever identified a comp career?
Instead of falling into the trap of “compare and despair” (that moment when you look at someone else’s...
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211. How to Love Your Backlist
As an author, your backlist is one of your most valuable assets.
Unfortunately, many novelists find themselves feeling embarrassed by their earlier work. They cringe when they think about promoting older novels and...
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210. You Get to Make the Rules
If you find yourself frequently afraid of “doing it wrong” in your publishing career, this episode is for you!
There are so many places where you get to decide how you’ll work–and how you’ll collaborate with your...
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209. Perseverance in Publishing with Jessi Cole Jackson
I’m joined on the podcast today by Jessi Cole Jackson, author of the newly released Ruinous Creatures, a spicy, feminist romantasy set in a world where people wear the bones of mythical creatures in order to wield...
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Bonus: Writing Doesn't Get Easier, YOU Get Stronger
I've been noodling on a bunch of different topics lately, none of which quite make sense to be a whole episode by themselves, so I decided to give you a bonus episode with a few of them together!
I talk about why...
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208. Preparing Your Option Proposal
After you’ve sold your debut novel, you unlock a new process in publishing: selling a novel on proposal.
This most commonly happens as part of the option clause on your contract, and it’s a time in your career that...
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207. Confidence Series: Changing Your Inner Dialogue
Lasting, authentic confidence is not possible when your inner dialogue is full of threats, name calling, and a constantly downplaying of your accomplishments. Even if the way you talk to yourself isn't overtly mean,...
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206. Confidence Series: How to Love Your Reasons
Confidence as an author is less about WHAT you do and more about WHY you do it.
Which means to have a truly confident career, you need a process for making intentional decisions–about your writing schedule, what deals...
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205. Confidence Series: Let Yourself Be Impressive
In a world where many of us were socialized to be modest, avoid shining “too brightly,” and stay humble, it can be really uncomfortable when other people think you’re impressive. If you regularly shy away from praise,...
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204. Confidence Series: The 3 Types of Author Confidence
When talking to authors about their goals for 2026, a theme emerged. So many of them said some version of: “I want to feel more confident.”
For some, they wanted to believe they were good at writing (despite having...
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203. “Am I Skilled Enough to Write this Book?”
Every novel has its challenges–and it’s normal to feel intimidated at the start of a new project–but sometimes we find ourselves with a novel idea that feels impossible. Though you’re captivated by the idea, you have...
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