The Launch Box 6: An Abridged History of Self-Publishing
This Creative Life with Sara Zarr
Release Date: 02/18/2022
S3 E8: Introducing the Writers Circle!
This Creative Life with Sara Zarr
The Writers Circle is a community for support, connection, and education for writers at all levels, across genres and categories. Check it out: Coupons! EARLYBIRD10 for 10% off any membership (expires 9/2) FOREVER21 for 21% off a Forever membership (expires 9/2) Thanks to for the theme music! Learn more about me, my books, and my other projects at:
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S3 E7: Dealing with Middles
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S3 E6: What Counts as Writing
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When your word count is down but you've got lots of dishes to do. Thanks to for the theme music! Learn more about me, my books, and my other projects at:
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S3 E5: Five Craft Tips I Give the Most
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This week I go over five of the most common pieces of feedback I give on student and client manuscripts. Got a writing question for a future episode? ! Thanks to for the theme music! Learn more about me, my books, and my other projects at:
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S3 E4: When to Invite Feedback
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S3 E3: "This Is Stupid" with Author Andrew DeYoung
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In the first interview episode of TCL 3.0, we bring back an old friend with a new book. Andrew DeYoung's new domestic thriller, Stay Away From Him, is out this week. We talk about Andrew's path from YA to speculative to thrillers, the pleasures of writing genre fiction, and how he gets it done. Also, why is everything in publishing so slow? Thanks to for the theme music! Learn more about me, my books, and my other projects at:
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S3 E2: Why You're Not Writing
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In this episode, I go over five common reasons we're not writing even though we want to, and offer some ways to change our thinking. Share it with a friend who needs to hear it! Thanks to for the theme music! Learn more about me, my books, and my other projects at:
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S3 E1: The Reality-Based Writing Life
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87. Ashley C. Ford and the Ultimate Pivot - TCL Finale (?)
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I know you’ve been waiting a long time on a wish and a promise for this final episode in the Pivots, Comebacks, and Reinventions series. I appreciate your patience while I went and figured out myself and my own potential pivots and reinventions! The wait is over and I present to you my conversation with Ashley C. Ford, bestselling author of and . I’m so grateful to Ashley for her time and generosity in this conversation. I know you’re going to love it as much as I did. by Tananarive Due Get the book Thanks to for the theme music.
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TCL Mini: The Writing Life Audit
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This is the audio version of the most recent newsletter PLUS some thoughts about what's next for the pod. Get of this post Get Get
info_outlineAs Andrew and I wait through the last few weeks before our books come out, we digress ever so slightly into an incomplete history of self-publishing, from its reputation as “vanity publishing” to where it converged with the advent of ebooks and e-readers to arrive at its present day status as a messy juggernaut. Also: why every writer should consider learning how to self-publish in the 21st century.
Sara’s book now comes out on 3/15; Andrew’s is still scheduled for 3/29. Neither are at the bottom of the ocean!
0-13:30: Updates on our books
13:35-1:07:00: The incomplete history of self-publishing (including diversions to e-readers, the aspiring writer industrial complex, and remembering “New Adult” in its innocent infancy)
1:07:00 - end: Closing thoughts and coming attractions