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Revising With Julie, Part Three: Getting Eyes On Your Work

Oct 23 2019
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Hello! I am doing a series that is all about revising books and I hope you’ll check out the other posts. This is the third part of the series, and you can find the first part here and the second part here.   Welcome back! Today I’m going to be talking about how to get eyes on your work. To lead in, I’d like to share some realities of getting published: Your book no longer belongs […]

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Building an Author Website Before the Agent and the Book

Oct 15 2019
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Stock photo via Pexels I talk about author websites on Twitter Dot Com fairly often (as do my rockstar friends Patrice Caldwell and Dahlia Adler, both of whom you should be following for brilliant advice), and for a good reason. As someone who is involved in the industry as an agent, they’re so wildly important. They serve as a landing page for you, as a writer. And down the line, when your book is out […]

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Finding the best agent for your career

Jun 5 2019
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Hey Readers, Hope you’re well! Happy June, Happy Pride Month. Gosh the time has flown—I swear it was just April, LOL. I often get asked for advice on querying and how to choose an agent. And usually when I do, I say something like you want to find someone who’s best for your career. But what does that really mean? I always feel like my “brand” is talking about things we often sweep under the […]

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A Few Things To Know About Blurbs

Mar 18 2019
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Shortly after I got my book deal in 2016, my original editor, Brian, emailed me asking: “Which authors do you want to ask for a blurb?” And honestly, it felt like such a life-changing, terrifying, momentous rite of passage. I pictured myself sending piteous requests to respected authors, asking them to bestow their blessings upon me and my untried book and feeling like everything hinged on whether or not they decided to send me praise. […]

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Taking Advantage of Our Unpublished Work

Oct 29 2018
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Gather around the fire. Let’s tell a ghost story. I have a middle grade novel that releases next year. The series follows characters that train for their potential stories by attending Protagonist Preparatory. In the book, my main character stumbles upon the Sepulcher. But instead of hosting dead people, the school’s catacombs are full of dead books. All those books you started but never finished in high school? First chapters that never quite took off? […]

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