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Recent Episodes

There Are Adults in the Room: Macmillan Editor Ivan Taurisano on Writing Through Book Bans

Across conferences, workshops, and writing groups…

9 MIN

What Memoir Agents Want: Platform, Proposals, and a Live Query Critique

More than 1,500 of you voted for memoir, so we br…

20 MIN

Why This Book, Why Now, Why You: Fiona Kenshole on Queries That Get Read

Out of the 200 stories that land in an agent’s in…

17 MIN

Specificity Sells: How Julia Alexandra Found Her Agent and Book Deal

Julia Alexandra knows rejection. After querying i…

11 MIN

Commercial, Literary, or Upmarket? Untangling the Terms We All Use (with Kaitlyn Sanchez)

It's one of the most common questions in our inbo…

11 MIN