How to Glow in the Dark

What to do when something or someone in the publishing industry makes you really, really angry

TYPOGRAPHY, or: the part of your book submission you're probably not thinking about enough

If you're dealing with writer's block or burnout right now, psst: your problem is not "motivation," it's metabolic cost

Your readers don't need your advice, quips, aphorisms, ego, or projections. They just need your presence on the page.

How to maximize your chances of long-term success, financial sustainability, and spiritual fulfillment in your writing career

An anthology of publishing advice, conveniently organized by subject

Welcome to Ask Me (and Each Other) Anything Week.

A tarot reading: what is it you need to find your way forward with that book project (or whatever creative thing it is you're working on)?

Memoirs, essays, parodies, parenting, poetry, clever-conceit chapter structures, and other book concepts I beg you to reframe if you want a commercial publisher and aren't a rejection-fetish masochist

To become a great author, stop it with your freaking goal-setting and "manifesting" and instead let this teeming, unpredictable world manifest itself in *you*

Move toward joy. Move toward light. Play, laugh, rejoice -- and if anyone tries to make you feel ashamed for any of this, tell them to kick rocks

"But isn't a proposal just supposed to be just a summary of my book--not the whole thing?"