Before and After the Book Deal | Courtney Maum

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The best thinking happens in the space between two extremes.

casual musings on life through the lens of addiction, recovery, alcohol, and all the other drugs like your smartphone // a weekly essay with 10 Very Good Recovery Resources delivered to your inbox each monday

Trust me, you need Holly in your life. She takes no sh*t, but is super candid and funny about the times she's taken sh*t in the past, and she's a really important voice in this battle to stay human in a digital, on-demand, super scary world.

- Courtney Maum

52 Writing Prompts

By Suzanne Roberts

Writing advice, inspiration, and notes on the writing life

Because we all need a little help getting to the page these days!

- Courtney Maum

Eva's Newsletter

By Eva Langston

resources for writers on the journey to publication

Real life updates from an aspiring author who got an agent after sending out 90 query letters. Lots of tips on discussion forums and hashtags for active writers to join, and other creative (and encouraging) stuff! Go Eva!

- Courtney Maum

How To Get Unstuck

By Amy Shearn

Writing your way out of the restlessness

I would read a list of ingredients if they were written in Amy's sensitive, caring, and very funny hand, and thus I recommend her newsletter where she extends that hand to help us out of our own mess(es).

- Courtney Maum

The 7am Novelist

By Michelle Hoover

Join award-winning novelist and writing teacher Michelle Hoover with tips and special guests for your morning writing wake up call, starting with a 50-day writing challenge to help you get a new project going and keep you in your chair.

One of my favorite teachers for her pragmatic, compassionate and inspired ways, Michelle Hoover is also the generous force behind the "7am Novelist" 50-day writing challenge. You must check it out!

- Courtney Maum

Adventures In "Journalism" by Sari Botton

Now writing at http://adventuresinjournalism.com instead. Highlights and lowlights* (*mostly lowlights) from one Gen X lady writer's rather circuitous career path as a writer.

Sari is such an honest and needed voice about what it is like to be an overworked, frequently underpaid, but nevertheless passionate person in this crazy world of publishing.

- Courtney Maum

Counter Craft

By Lincoln Michel

fiction craft, publishing demystification, weird books

Well written tips and perspectives about the writing and publishing industry. Basically, this is where MFA meets the IRS (one of the titles of a recent post). The author is a literary insider who has been "in the biz" a long time and knows of what he speaks.

- Courtney Maum

Men Yell at Me

By lyz

Written from a journalist in a red state, this newsletter is personal, political, sometimes funny and always raises hell.

Come for the "Dingus of the Week" dispatch, stay for the "been there, done that, but Lyz writes about it better" angle on what it is like to be a woman in America, today.

- Courtney Maum

The Optionist

By Janice Min

Great available IP for Hollywood. I do the reading for you

An insider-baseball newsletter about the topics and character arcs that are getting literary material optioned today. A subscription to this newsletter is more affordable (and easier to come by) than a meeting in Hollywood!

- Courtney Maum

Just keep writing

By Alice Bradley

Sometimes I'll write about writing, mostly I'll write about my life with my husband and elderly cat and dog. And my son, too, when he shows up.

Writing, mental health, and animals? It's what my own memoir is all about!

- Courtney Maum

How to Glow in the Dark

By Neon Literary

Book publishing advice and community for authors of fiction and nonfiction, written by the agents at Neon Literary.

Expert, candid, and emotional advice from a top American literary agent.

- Courtney Maum

Wild Inventures

By Rowan Mangan

Life on its own terms: a weekly column about creativity, writing, and the quest for an authenticity that feels great even if it looks weird. With a healthy dose of humor.

Creativity hacks, making peace with your computer, life as a full time worker in the cubicle of your own house and much more from this Aussie born multitasker who has kindness and humor to spare.

- Courtney Maum