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✍️ My Nonlinear Book Writing Process
A conversation with Jacqueline Fisch on 15-minute book sprints, the power of processing through writing, and starting with insecurity but publishing…
Oct 1
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❤️ Jenny Blake
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September 2025
💬 What are your favorite qualities in a memoir or personal essay?
What gives you the ick? Weigh in on our monthly(ish) community prompt
Sep 27
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📕 All the Way to the Memoir, Part Two
“The misfortunes of others taste like honey.”—Japanese saying via Schadenfreude author and cultural historian Dr. Tiffany Watt Smith
Sep 24
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📕 All the Way to the Memoir, Part One
A non-take on Elizabeth Gilbert's new book and surrounding Discourse™
Sep 20
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Not All Feedback is Created Equal
The clip I can’t get out of my mind this month is only one minute long, a London-based harpist continuing to strum angelic chords even as a woman scolds…
Sep 17
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August 2025
🎧 Listen to the Rolling in Doh Podcast Playlist
🎣 While I'm gone fishin’ — taking a brief hiatus for the end of summer 😎
Aug 30
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📚 The Untold Story of Book(s) Sales, Part Two
Additional resources for aspiring authors—and the readers who love them 🤓
Aug 27
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I went on one of the biggest podcast in the world
and it didn't sell any books
Published on Amie’s Substack
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Aug 23
📚 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"
Aug 20
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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…
Aug 16
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❤️ Jenny Blake
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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…
Aug 13
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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…
Aug 9
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❤️ Jenny Blake
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