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Claire Venus ✨'s avatar

Great piece. LJ Ross lives near me - I recently heard she has sold more books than JK Rowling.

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Claire Diaz-Ortiz's avatar

WOAH! Really?!?

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Claire Venus ✨'s avatar

Crazy huh? I love her story! Plenty of inspo here on the Northumberland coast too!

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Dana Elmendorf's avatar

Thank you for the mention! I’m glad you found it helpful!

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Claire Diaz-Ortiz's avatar

Totally!

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David McIlroy's avatar

Thanks so much for the mention Claire!

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Claire Diaz-Ortiz's avatar

You rock!

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Melissa AuClair's avatar

Thank you for this post and the links!

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Riccardo Vocca's avatar

I have always read articles about publishing a book, partly because it has always been one of my secret dreams, and on the other because I think it is a very fascinating industry - that of publishing - and continually forced to reinvent itself and change. I found this piece particularly useful and interesting, especially in the parts where you specified that publishing is 'an art and a science' and the advice on understanding and doing research before writing the book. In case I write a book on the relationships between humans and AI, the topic of my newsletter, I will definitely start from here, thanks for sharing!

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Olivia Lara Owen's avatar

Whoosh can’t wait to tuck into these! Thank you!

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Maggie Mertens's avatar

This is so lovely to see! Thanks for reading and sharing. Less than a week out from book launch, it's fun to read back what I wrote here <3

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Pamela Redmond's avatar

Amazing post, Claire! And thanks for all the new people to follow.

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Kathleen Schmidt's avatar

Thank you for the mention!

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