🔍 Kickstarter's head of publishing gives you the inside scoop on crowdfunding your next book on their platform

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Reedsy Live: The Podcast

Reedsy Live: Crowdfunding Your Book with Kickstarter with Oriana Leckert

🔍 Join bestselling author SJ Watson as he shows you how to activate editor mode

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Reedsy Live: Unleash Your Inner Editor (and Kill Your Darlings) with SJ Watson

🔍 Join award-winning author, ghostwriter, and book coach Amanda Edgar as she shows you how to make your memoir read like a bestselling novel

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Reedsy Live: How to Plot Your Memoir Like a Novel with Amanda Edgar

🔍 Former literary agent Rachel Stout reveals her tips for researching agents and personalizing query letters

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Reedsy Live: Personalizing Your Query Letters with Rachel Stout

🔍 Author and Reedsy ghostwriter Michelle Schusterman shows you how to take your book idea and get busy writing its first draft

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How to Start Writing a Book with Michelle Schusterman

🔍 Editor and author Tracy Gold reveals the biggest mistakes new writers make when writing dialogue

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Common Mistakes in Writing Dialogue and How to Avoid Them with Tracy Gold

🔍 Learn the secret code behind all well-plotted novels from the author of Save the Cat! Writes a Novel

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Save the Cat! Writes a Novel with Jessica Brody

🔍 NYT bestselling author Caroline Leavitt talks about how beginnings and endings can make a good novel great

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How to Crack Your Novel's Beginning and Ending with Caroline Leavitt

🔍 The productivity coaches behind Prolifiko share their tips on building a productive writing habit

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How to Build a Productive Writing Habit with Bec Evans and Chris Smith

🔍 Reedsy editor Julie Artz talks about assessing your own manuscript to determine whether it's ready to be seen by editors and readers

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Is Your Manuscript Ready? Discover Your Self-Auditing Toolkit with Julie Artz

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🔍 Author and bestselling ghostwriter Tom Bromley talks about the "Five Ps" of preparing to draft a novel

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Preparing to Write a Novel: 5 Keys to Success with Tom Bromley

🔍 Author, editor, and writing coach Michelle Hazen reveals some key craft elements that make for a well-written, unputdownable romance novel

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How to Write Romance that Stands Out with Michelle Hazan

🔍 Literary agent Max Sinsheimer talks about querying nonfiction books and how to make a positive first impression

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How to Query Nonfiction: An Agent Explains with Max Sinsheimer

🔍 Author and editor Cara Stevens shares 20 questions to help you write your very own picture book

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How to Develop a Picture Book with Cara Stevens

🔍 Bestselling author Oksana Marafioti shares tips on how to bring your characters to life on the page

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How to Write Engaging Characters with Oksana Marafioti

🔍 Writer Dionne McCulloch shows you how to find the perfect editor

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How to Find the Right Book Editor with Dionne McCulloch

🔍 Authors Caroline Leavitt and Gina Sorell have a chat about how first-time authors get themselves published

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Getting Published as a Debut Author with Caroline Leavitt and Gina Sorell

Besides a room of one’s own, what does it really take to write a book?

Bestseller: A Self-Publishing Podcast by Reedsy

Chapter 1: The Writing Process

How do you transform "working writer" from the job of your dreams into a career?

Season 2 Chapter 5: Making A Community

How do you market a book that you can barely even describe? Benjamin Davis, author of a so called magical realism poetic memoir, travelled across the world to find the answer.

Addendum 4: Flashback (with Benjamin Davis)

It's hard enough writing a novel for anyone. When writing for kids aged 12 to 18, it's another challenge altogether.

Season 3 Prologue: Amateur Hour

How do you insult your audience without insulting their sensibilities... or their intelligence? When writing for a juvenile audience, finding the right balance is more important than ever.

Season 3 Chapter 2: The Least Syllable of Thy Addition

Move too fast and, instead of working around your obstacles, you might just crash into them – in romance, in writing, and in writing romance.

Addendum 9: Moving Too Fast (with Jami Albright)

As the Hero's Journey starts up again, Tim has to put his own creativity advice to the test.

Bestseller Season 4

Season 4 Chapter 1: Framing Your Mind

What do the Greek gods, Walt Disney, and indie author slash creativity professor Tim Cigelske all have common? Apparently, everything.

Season 4 Prologue: The Hero's Journey

The Hero's Journey is an excellent metaphor for any creative process. But when it comes to self publishing a nonfiction book, the line between fact and fiction is anything but metaphorical.

Season 4 Chapter 2: Facts & Fiction

How do you learn to see your creative work from other's perspectives? The answer is the same thing it's been for centuries: pick up a book.

Season 4 Chapter 3: Reading The Write Way

Before selling your book, you need to learn how to sell yourself.

Season 4 Chapter 4: Branding Yourself

These days, everyone wants to be the next overnight viral sensation. But, as it turns out, there's nothing overnight about it.

Season 4 Chapter 5: A Long Way To Go Viral

But, as mysteriously as they begin, all creative journeys come to an end. Or do they?

Season 4 Epilogue: The Beginning

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