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I'm a writer and book coach/writing instructor. Working on a hybrid memoir. I host The Book I Had to Write podcast; & my newsletter, The Book I Want to Write, was chosen by Sarah Fay as one of “20 Best Creative Writing Substacks."
Publishing expert + author w/20+ years experience in marketing, branding and storytelling, on a mission to help writers learn how to help themselves. Weekly posts on Wednesdays + feedback opportunities for paid subscribers. www.courtneymaum.com
Leah Eichler writes fiction, non-fiction and publishes Esoterica Magazine. She's currently working on a blended memoir about contemporary Jewish identity and the legacy of the Holocaust.
Jeannine Ouellette is the author of the memoir The Part That Burns (Split/Lip Press, 2021) and founder/artistic director of Writing in the Dark, an independent creative writing school.
Novelist, psychedelic-memoirist, occasional screenwriter, Los Angeles Review of Books Co-founder. Next: THE GOLDEN HOUR (Ecco, April ‘25)
Abigail Thomas has four children, twelve grandchildren, two great grandchildren, two dogs, eleven books, and a high school education. Her books include Safekeeping; A Three Dog Life; What Comes Next and How to Like It; and Still Life At Eighty.
Essays from the front lines of 40-something womanhood
25+ years in the book publishing industry. President of KMSPR, a strategy, marketing, PR, and branding firm focusing on authors, publishers, and publishing adjacent entities.
Jay Michaelson is a journalist, rabbi, meditation teacher and scholar. His work appears on CNN, The Daily Beast, Rolling Stone, and the Forward. He is the author of ten books and is a Field Scholar at the Emory Center for Psychedelics & Spirituality.
Travis Kurowski has been writing too many letters while slowly finishing a novel about drugs and wildfire.
Freelance writer, full-time mom, former sex worker. Survivor. Author of SHAME ON YOU: How to Be a Woman in the Age of Mortification
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