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198. Goodbye 2025! (Evaluating Your Year)
With the final few days of the year upon us, now is a great time to pause and reflect on how things went in 2025. You deserve to celebrate all the wins you had–big and small–before you set your sights on a new year of...
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197. Surviving the Book 2 Blues
The first time you draft a book under contract can be an exceptionally challenging experience. There are craft-level challenges (“how do I make the stakes even bigger for this sequel?”), timeline challenges (“I need...
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196. Author Goal Setting: Holiday Edition
With the holidays upon us, you may find your calendar full with extra family stuff. Shopping. Cooking. Cleaning. Travel to visit family or hosting at your place. On top of all of that… you still have writing goals you...
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195. Separating Disappointment from “Failure”
If you have a book coming out in 2026 and you find yourself spending a lot of time worried your book will “fail,” this episode is for you.
I’m breaking down all my thoughts about success and failure in publishing and...
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194. Effective Problem Solving for Authors
In order to write a novel, you need to be able to both make millions of decisions and effectively problem solve when those initial decisions turn out to be not quite right. Whether you’ve got a complicated plot...
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193. You are not a Hack. Your Book wasn't a Fluke.
When you care about the books you write, it’s easy to slip into a negative headspace when those stories aren’t received the way you hoped. You worry that you’re an unoriginal hack who has tricked everyone into...
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192. The Real Trick to Writing Faster
If you’ve ever felt frustrated about your writing speed, this episode is for you.Â
Writing faster isn’t about fancy hacks or overhauling your entire process. Instead, it’s about pinpointing the parts of your process...
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191. Five Lessons from my Hardest Year
This past year, my personal life has been rough. Lots of grief. Lots of once-in-a-lifetime stressful events.
Yet despite all the hardships, I’ve still made a ton of progress in my author career. I revised my 2026...
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190. From Submission to Publication with Kim DeRose
Curious about the best time to start coaching? This week, Kim DeRose shares how coaching supported her through the entire journey of writing and publishing her newest release, Hear Her Howl.
We talk about the...
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189. Bringing Magic into Your Writing Process with Molly Donlan
This week, I interviewed Molly Donlan about her transition from skeptic to Reiki Master teacher, co-host of a popular witchy podcast (Demystify Magic), and author of the forthcoming non-fiction title, Mundane...
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188. How to Excel at Writing IP with Tess Sharpe
If you’ve ever wondered what it takes to build a career writing IP, this interview with Tess Sharpe is a must-listen! (And if you have no idea what IP is, I also recommend checking out this episode!)
Tess is a NYT...
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187. Navigating a Hybrid Author Career with Rebecca Thorne
For the second episode in our two-part series about being a hybrid author, the wonderful and fabulous Rebecca Thorne joined me on the podcast to share the wisdom and business savvy she’s gained throughout her hybrid...
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