
If You Give a Girl a Book is a sharp, loving field guide for writers, authors, small press people, mothers, misfits, and literary workers trying to build a serious creative life without becoming well-behaved content.
| Platform | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly | |
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| Issues | 186 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 6 days ago |
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Every summer, authors start asking about readings for AWP.
Are we doing one? Do we know anyone doing one? Can we get them into something? Is there a bookstore event? A launch? A panel? A party? A reading in the back of a bar where everyone...
Every publisher eventually encounters the vanishing author, that pale departmental cryptid who signs the contract with bright plans, speaks tenderly about audience, and swears they are ready to promote until the first marketing questionnair...
Publishing has perfected the art of handing authors instructions that gnaw through one another.
Be visible, but not eager.
Be generous, but never strategic enough to suggest you have a survival instinct.
Be confident, but...
I haven’t written in months.
At first, I told myself I was just resting. Then I blamed it on being busy. Both were true, but neither feels like the whole story anymore. Honestly? I think I’m just terrified to go back.
I...
You are allowed to make dinner before you finish the chapter.
You are allowed to take the walk, call your sister, help your child with the impossible school project, spend an hour in the garden, go to bed early, or sit on the floor with th...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Summer is the publisher of Unsolicited Press. She is also an award-winning journalist, poet, developmental editor, and a badass homeschooling mama.
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