Blowout birthday sale!
I'm celebrating my birthday with a very special discount. Act fast- the sale ends once I turn 46!
My birthday is on September 4th. To celebrate, I’m offering a one-time 46% sale for new subscriptions. Jump on this if you are tempted because the sale ends once I turn 46! If you are already a paid subscriber—thank you!—perhaps you have a writer friend or relative in your life who would appreciate a discounted subscription as a gift.
In terms of what is coming ahead, this year I’ll be trying to sell a novel and attempting to write a new book (I think it’s going to be autofiction written in the second person point of view?), running a writing workshop in New Mexico, teaching in San Miguel, Mexico, and adding a few new things to my Substack. Plus…life? I hope you’ll join me and our community of nearly thirty thousand subscribers (holy COW) to learn about what it takes to get a book deal and what life is like after you finally put a book out.
When I think of everything we’ve learned and shared together this past year, I’m honestly so grateful. You’ve all made it easier for me to handle the isolation of a writer’s life and the isolation of life in a rural town, too. You are my community and I care about you deeply.
Thank you, as always, for being here.
Courtney
Happy birthday Courtney 🎉
Happy birthday! You look so young! Would have thought 41 max. Are you doing anything unique to preserve your youth? Also, lord it’s unreal when you think about how many people want book deals and how few deals there are. 30,000 is so many! Just yesterday I saw another thing for a literary journal and they were like, well we got 3,000+ submissions this WEEK and in the coming months we will pick 20… Nassim Taleb was right to call book publishing Extremistan. Extremely hard to rise to the surface of the slush pile. And bravo to you from doing it! Good luck doing it again!