Rolling in D🤦🏻‍♀️h with Jenny Blake

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I went on one of the biggest podcast in the world
and it didn't sell any books
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📚 The Untold Story of Book(s) Sales, Part One
Fascinating statistics from Michael Castleman's recent Author's Guild Bulletin article, “The Cruelty—and Possibilities—of 21st Century Book Promotion"
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📦 Hurry Up and Wait, Part Four
Why should the very first open house be a smashing success, anyway? Prospect tenants had less time to arrange their schedules around that one, since the…
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📦 Hurry Up and Wait, Part Three
I cued up Perfect Match on Netflix (oh, the irony) and ate to suppress the newly formed pit in my stomach. This next part of the process was going to be…
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📦 Hurry Up and Wait, Part Two
Shouldn’t people be at the open house by now? I furrow my brows and bite my lower lip. If you build a billion boxes, they will come, right? Right?! By…
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📦 Hurry Up and Wait, Part One
Like Christmas, it’s finally here: Sunday morning. I look down at my watch: 9:46 a.m. Fourteen minutes until the open house starts, and I still have to…
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🫨 "Enormous Changes at the Last Minute," Part Two
The dog ahead was pure muscle, torso the size of a barbecue barrel with a head the size of a basketball. It looked most like the “XL” American Bully, “a…
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July 2025

🫨 "Enormous Changes at the Last Minute," Part One
I saw the pit bull approaching from twenty feet away. I was on my way home with Ryder. It was hot and crowded, pedestrians shoulder to shoulder. I…
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🙅🏻‍♀️ The book I avoided buying for 12 years, part three
🍩 Reminder: Paid subscriptions are now just $5/month ($4 if you upgrade to annual billing), less than a New York City donut! If you upgrade in July…
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📣 Last call for July upgrade bonuses!
Limited-edition Rolling in Doh pin + live AMA if you join as a paying subscriber in July
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🙅🏻‍♀️ The book I avoided buying for 12 years, part two
These last few years, I've been playing blackjack with the city (and the universe): Who will fold first?
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🙅🏻‍♀️ The book I avoided buying for 12 years, part one
I didn’t want it on my shelves, for fear of inciting the outcome I was avoiding
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