Archive - Friday Office Hours of Before and After the Book Deal

General Do's and Don'ts in Query letter writing plus a Q+A opp for my April 17th students

If you attended my April 17th class on Query Writing 2.0 and you have a burning question, this is where you can ask it

Apr 19

Open call for query letters!

If you're enrolled in my Query Writing class on April 17th, this is your chance to post your query letter...and possibly get a Turning Points class for…

Apr 7

Ask me anything about...query letter writing!

It's AMA Friday! Let's tackle questions about everything and anything related to query letter writing and the whole getting-an-agent thing.

Apr 5

March 2024

The Q&A on platform for students who didn't get to Q last night

This is the Q&A session we weren't able to hold at last night's class, plus, links to the Substacks of the writers that we workshopped.

Mar 28

Ask me anything...about platform!

AMA about social media use and presence, how to find your readers, what platform really means, whether you need platform, newsletter creation and more.

Mar 13

February 2024

Ask me anything...about time management!

Plus questions about goal-setting, accountability practices, content calendar creation, and more!

Feb 16

My 2024 calendar of online writing classes is live!

From query letter-writing to pitching magazines and doing platform in a way that is empowering, we'll cover a lot of ground together this year.

Feb 9

January 2024

Open call for material: Let's workshop your bios!

Learn how to better reflect your professional experience, writing chops and unique perspective in your biographical statements.

Jan 26

December 2023

Workshopping your loglines - the do-over! Plus 5 ways to "cheat" your summary material

For those of you who sent in loglines-- thank you! But I kinda sorta need for you to share them with me again.

Dec 1, 2023

November 2023

How to write about a superficial person without superficial prose

How do you write a Stepford Wife with soul? Watch as I tear apart my own work-in-progress to fix what's going wrong.

Nov 10, 2023

Friday Office Hours: Call for loglines

Send me your good, your bad, your ugly, but send it in one sentence.

Nov 3, 2023

September 2023

Your summer publishing questions answered, Round 5

Verifying that there's a market for your book proposal, must you start a newsletter, querying one agent for two genres, why I'm remiss to talk about…

Sep 22, 2023

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