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Ask a Bookseller: As an author, what shocked you about the bookselling business?
Plus: Why do people assume indie bookstores are dying?
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Guest post: I worked in the sales department at a publisher for years—and now I'm a debut novelist
Alli Hoff Kosik on the benefits and burdens of a past career at a Big 5 publishing house
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THE LOST NIGHT is $2 right now!
+ has anyone else noticed this weird Substack trend?
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If customers reviewed restaurants like readers review books
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Here are the sales figures for all 5 of my books
Aug 14, 2025
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Let's talk about my Week 1 sales
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Hi, I feel like a huge freaking failure today
Mar 24, 2025
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Being a bestseller doesn't actually guarantee anything
Aug 28, 2025
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17 things you didn't know you can ask your publisher for
Jun 23, 2025
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Guest post: My no-fail trick for giving your novel a strong sense of place
Thriller author Terri Parlato's step-by-step plan for getting to know your setting
Feb 24
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This terrifying act made me a better writer
It was the writing challenge I didn't know I needed
Feb 19
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Ask Andi: My agent wants me to hire a freelance editor!
Is this normal? How do I choose one? And does this mean she hates my book?!
Feb 17
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We need to talk about this common (yet shameful) experience
Normalize mid-publication blues!
Feb 12
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If customers reviewed restaurants like readers review books
Some satire cowritten with my hilarious friend Leah Rowan, author of the forthcoming thriller MARION
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Guest post: Why Do I Love Unlikable Characters but Hate Being Unlikable?
Bestselling author Olivia Muenter on facing the reality that no book is for everybody
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Ask a Bookseller: What really goes on at bookseller conferences?
Plus: How much stock do you put in the Indie Next list?
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Get It Write is 2 today!
An anti-ICE campaign + a few nuggets you might have missed.
Jan 30
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"Everyone we meet knows more about us authors than we do about them."
Bestseller Hank Phillippi Ryan on turning a book tour into book fodder, chasing the story like a TV reporter, and her unputdownable thriller, ALL THIS…
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