Author Insider
Panio Gianopoulos, Cassandra Vieten, Natalie Nixon, Cate Hall, Lucinda Literary, Marisa Solis, Kelly McGonigal, Stacy S. Kim, Daisy Dixon, Elizabeth DoughertyInside the business of being a writer.
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Do Authors Really Need to Be on Social Media?
Every month, I host private Office Hours for Author Insider members. They’re casual (virtual) get-togethers where writers can check in with each other on what they’re working on, trade ideas, ask questions, and generally help one another na...
Remember You Are Not a Machine
June Cohen is a media and technology pioneer whose career has repeatedly helped define new forms of storytelling. As a college student, she led the development of Proteus, the world’s first multimedia magazine, and later joined the team tha...
Next Office Hours on Tuesday, October 27
Hi everyone,
A quick heads-up that our next session of Office Hours will be Tuesday, October 27, at 4 p.m. ET.
If you haven’t attended yet, these monthly sessions are casual, half-hour get-togethers where we can check in on what we’re wo...
The Book You Carry Around in Your Head
Kelly McGonigal is a psychologist, Stanford lecturer, and bestselling author whose books have explored willpower, stress, movement, and the ways psychological science can help us live better. She also has a demanding standard for when an id...
What Your Book Is Really About
Photo by Balazs Toro.
Daisy Dixon approaches art from two sides. She’s a philosopher at Cardiff University who studies the moral and political questions raised by art, and she’s also a practicing artist herself. Much of her academic work h...
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Authors
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Author of A Familiar Beast (novella) and How to Get Into Our House and Where We Keep the Money (stories). Editorial director of the Next Big Idea Club. I write about books, publishing, and the writing life at Author Insider.
Cassandra Vieten is Clinical Professor at UC San Diego where she is Director of Research at the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination, and Director of the Center for Mindfulness.
Creativity Strategist and CEO of Figure 8 Thinking, LLC. I'm a global keynote speaker, award-winning author and lifelong dancer, swimmer & doodler. I live in Philadelphia with my husband, John.
searching for the hidden doors in the walls of life
A New York City-based literary agency specializing in big ideas and stories that change lives. Offering workshops and courses to help transform your pitch.
Marisa Solis is a book coach, developmental editor, and coauthor of The Complete Expert-to-Author Guide: Plan, Write, and Publish Your Nonfiction Book. She's been in publishing since 1999 and is based in Los Angeles.
Author, The Upside of Stress, The Willpower Instinct, The Joy of Movement. Sidekick: Donutella
Author. Researcher. Untangler.
Sculptor based in Herefordshire, UK. MA by Research Student at Oxford Brookes University.
Elizabeth Dougherty, a book coach and developmental editor since 1988, coauthored The Complete Expert-to-Author Guide: Plan, Write, and Publish Your Nonfiction Book with Marisa Solis. Their company, Book Structure Pros, helps experts become authors.
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