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Using a Freelance Developmental Editor While Still Writing Your Novel with May Cobb
Using an editor AS you're writing! Don't miss this conversation about something people often wonder about but rarely talk about!
May Cobb is an award-winning author of The Hunting Wives, My Summer Darlings, A Likeable Woman, and Big Woods. Her books have received attention from Book of The Month, The Today Show, and Oprah Daily and have been optioned for film/TV. She has an M.A. from San Francisco State University and her essays and interviews have appeared in The Washington Post and Good Housekeeping. She currently lives in Austin with her family. Her novel The Hunting Wives is soon to be a series on STARZ. The Hollywood Assistant is her most recent novel.
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Ink In Your Veins: How Writers Actually Write (and how you can, too)
Writing doesn't have to be so hard. With internationally bestselling author Rachael Herron, learn how to embrace ease, reject perfectionism, and finally create your perfect writing process. (Formerly known as How Do You Write) Come for inspiration, stay for lots more.
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55:59||Ep. 501In which Sacha is in a MUCH better place than she was last time (Kickstarter success! but it’s more than that) and Rachael talks us through a thought ladder exercise, manifesting for people who don’t love that word (which Sacha does). 🏠 INK VILLAGE! Click here for the details! 🎉 Unstuck is now available HERE!Ink In Your Veins: How Writers Actually Write (and how you can, too)Writing doesn't have to be so hard. With internationally bestselling author Rachael Herron, learn how to embrace ease, reject perfectionism, and finally create your perfect writing process. (Formerly known as How Do You Write) Come for inspiration, stay for lots more.✏️ Can I email you some writing help? 📙 Publish Your Book!EXCLUSIVELY FOR WRITERS: ➡️ How to Know If You’re Writing the Right Book500. How to Do Magic with Your Writing, with Iris Beaglehole
51:37||Ep. 500Celebrating 500 episodes! What’s my favorite thing about podcasting? Listen in! And then you’ll love this gorgeous chat on magic, listening for the yes, and tuning into what YOU need as a writer. Iris Beaglehole is the enchanting author of the spellbinding Myrtlewood Mysteries series. As a self-identified druid, witch, and aspiring astrologer, Iris weaves magic into her stories and takes readers on a thrilling journey to the mystical town of Myrtlewood. When she’s not crafting her fantastical stories, Iris can be found sipping tea with her feline companions and tending to her herb garden in Aotearoa New Zealand. 🏠 INK VILLAGE! Click here for the details! 🎉 Unstuck is now available HERE!Ink In Your Veins: How Writers Actually Write (and how you can, too)Writing doesn't have to be so hard. With internationally bestselling author Rachael Herron, learn how to embrace ease, reject perfectionism, and finally create your perfect writing process. (Formerly known as How Do You Write) Come for inspiration, stay for lots more.✏️ Can I email you some writing help? 📙 Publish Your Book!EXCLUSIVELY FOR WRITERS: ➡️ How to Know If You’re Writing the Right Book499. Make Room for Writing, with Aimee Phan
33:01||Ep. 499Today we're talking about writing as refuge, a place that's always waiting for you. We also talk about how writing and revision is layering, and about how to believe our characters are real people - don't miss this! Aimee Phan was born and raised in Orange County, California. She received her BA in English from UCLA and her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is the author of two books for adults, We Should Never Meet: Stories and the novel The Reeducation of Cherry Truong. She has received fellowships and residencies from the NEA, MacDowell Colony, the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center, Djerassi and Hedgebrook. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Time, USA Today and CNN.com among other publications. Aimee teaches as an associate professor in writing and literature at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco and resides in Berkeley, California with her family. The Lost Queen is her most recent novel. 🏠 INK VILLAGE! Click here for the details! 🎉 Unstuck is now available HERE!Ink In Your Veins: How Writers Actually Write (and how you can, too)Writing doesn't have to be so hard. With internationally bestselling author Rachael Herron, learn how to embrace ease, reject perfectionism, and finally create your perfect writing process. (Formerly known as How Do You Write) Come for inspiration, stay for lots more.✏️ Can I email you some writing help? 📙 Publish Your Book!EXCLUSIVELY FOR WRITERS: ➡️ How to Know If You’re Writing the Right Book498. Telling Your Story with TedX, with Catriona Turner
42:58||Ep. 498How do you talk about your writer-self on TedX and make a difference to listeners? Catriona spills the tea everything, as well making the very good case to let potential readers make up their own minds about our books! Catriona Turner is a Scottish writer and editor. Before living abroad, she worked as an English teacher in Scottish schools. She has since spent fourteen years globally mobile with her family, living in France (three times), Uganda, Congo, and Denmark. Her first book, Nest: a memoir of home on the move, was published in June 2023, and she is now working on a follow-up memoir of returning to Scotland. Her writing has also appeared in anthologies, and she had a regular column in Danish magazine The International. The TEDx talk she delivered in November 2024, titled ‘Find Your Main Character Energy’, is available to watch on YouTube. She now lives in Aberdeen with her husband, sons (a teen and a tween), and a brand new puppy. Links mentioned: Catriona’s TedX talkThe Word BothyFree proofreading checklistCatriona's WebsiteCatriona's InstagramMonna McDiarmid’s Fairy Godmothering Class🏠 INK VILLAGE! Click here for the details! 🎉 Unstuck is now available HERE!Ink In Your Veins: How Writers Actually Write (and how you can, too)Writing doesn't have to be so hard. With internationally bestselling author Rachael Herron, learn how to embrace ease, reject perfectionism, and finally create your perfect writing process. (Formerly known as How Do You Write) Come for inspiration, stay for lots more.✏️ Can I email you some writing help? 📙 Publish Your Book!EXCLUSIVELY FOR WRITERS: ➡️ How to Know If You’re Writing the Right Book497. The Best Critique Partner Guide, with Amy Nielsen
39:59||Ep. 497Should you use a critique partner? How do you find them? What should you watch out for? Amy Nielsen spent twenty years as a youth librarian sharing her love of books with young readers. She is the author of Goldilocks and the Three Bears: Understanding Autism Spectrum Disorder, It Takes a Village: How to Build a Support System for Your Exceptional Needs Family, and the Florida Book Award winning YA novel Worth It. Amy is a literary agent, freelance editor, and owner of Mayflower Media. When not reading or writing, Amy and her family can be found boating the waters of Tampa Bay with a canine-co-captain in a mermaid life vest.Link mentioned: Critique Match: https://critiquematch.com/ 🏠 INK VILLAGE! Click here for the details! 🎉 Unstuck is now available HERE!Ink In Your Veins: How Writers Actually Write (and how you can, too)Writing doesn't have to be so hard. With internationally bestselling author Rachael Herron, learn how to embrace ease, reject perfectionism, and finally create your perfect writing process. (Formerly known as How Do You Write) Come for inspiration, stay for lots more.✏️ Can I email you some writing help? 📙 Publish Your Book!EXCLUSIVELY FOR WRITERS: ➡️ How to Know If You’re Writing the Right Book496. On Finding Resilience in Writing Memoir, with Sarito Carroll
35:17||Ep. 496Sarito Carroll is an author whose childhood was shaped by the chaotic, free-love world of the Osho Rajneesh movement, where she experienced both a deep sense of belonging and the wounds of neglect and sexual misconduct. Her debut memoir, In the Shadow of Enlightenment, unravels the complexities of growing up in a cult, the struggle to break free, and the long journey toward healing and self-acceptance. After decades of silence, she is reclaiming her voice and exposing the hidden realities of a system that promised love but demanded devotion at any cost. Through her writing, Sarito offers a powerful testament to resilience, truth, and the strength it takes to confront a formidable institution that seeks to keep stories like hers suppressed. Find her here: https://www.saritocarroll.com/🏠 INK VILLAGE! Click here for the details! 🎉 Unstuck is now available HERE!Ink In Your Veins: How Writers Actually Write (and how you can, too)Writing doesn't have to be so hard. With internationally bestselling author Rachael Herron, learn how to embrace ease, reject perfectionism, and finally create your perfect writing process. (Formerly known as How Do You Write) Come for inspiration, stay for lots more.✏️ Can I email you some writing help? 📙 Publish Your Book!EXCLUSIVELY FOR WRITERS: ➡️ How to Know If You’re Writing the Right Book495. The Black Herron 31
54:52||Ep. 495In which we talk about Rachael’s new Ink Village and Sacha’s warehouse shenanigans! 🏠 INK VILLAGE! Click here for the details! 🎉 Unstuck is now available HERE!Ink In Your Veins: How Writers Actually Write (and how you can, too)Writing doesn't have to be so hard. With internationally bestselling author Rachael Herron, learn how to embrace ease, reject perfectionism, and finally create your perfect writing process. (Formerly known as How Do You Write) Come for inspiration, stay for lots more.✏️ Can I email you some writing help? 📙 Publish Your Book!EXCLUSIVELY FOR WRITERS: ➡️ How to Know If You’re Writing the Right Book494. 9 Lessons Learned from 9 Years of Full-Time Writing
28:19||Ep. 4949 Lessons Learned from 9 Years of Full-Time Writing! Join Rachael as she shares what she's learned from being a writer full time. 🏠 INK VILLAGE! Click here for the details! 🎉 Unstuck is now available HERE!Ink In Your Veins: How Writers Actually Write (and how you can, too)Writing doesn't have to be so hard. With internationally bestselling author Rachael Herron, learn how to embrace ease, reject perfectionism, and finally create your perfect writing process. (Formerly known as How Do You Write) Come for inspiration, stay for lots more.✏️ Can I email you some writing help? 📙 Publish Your Book!EXCLUSIVELY FOR WRITERS: ➡️ How to Know If You’re Writing the Right Book493. Have a Different Creative Outlet, with Elizabeth Becker
38:57||Ep. 493Also: writing about human truths, and the importance of having a second set of eyes on your work at the right time! ELIZABETH BECKER is a former pediatric nurse and Pushcart Prize-nominated writer. She has worked as a correspondent for Richmond Magazine and the Richmond Times Dispatch, and her award-winning essays have been featured on national sites including Motherwell, Scary Mommy, Motherly, Swamp Pink (formerly Crazy Horse), and Winning Writers. She received a degree in creative writing from the College of Charleston before earning a bachelor's degree in nursing. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, with her husband and four young children. Find her on Instagram, @elizabethbeckerauthor. The Moonlight Healers is her debut novel. 🏠 INK VILLAGE! Click here for the details! 🎉 Unstuck is now available HERE!Ink In Your Veins: How Writers Actually Write (and how you can, too)Writing doesn't have to be so hard. With internationally bestselling author Rachael Herron, learn how to embrace ease, reject perfectionism, and finally create your perfect writing process. (Formerly known as How Do You Write) Come for inspiration, stay for lots more.✏️ Can I email you some writing help? 📙 Publish Your Book!EXCLUSIVELY FOR WRITERS: ➡️ How to Know If You’re Writing the Right Book