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The Launch Box 7: Launched!

This Creative Life with Sara Zarr

Release Date: 04/08/2022

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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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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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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 E3: 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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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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Subscribe to this podcast wherever you like to listen, including Apple, Overcast, Spotify, Podbean, and more. Thanks to for the theme music!  

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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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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  

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A lot has happened since the last episode! Namely: A Song Called Home and The Temps are both out in the world and no longer under our control, if they ever were. We’re already no longer in our pub-day month; new books come out, people move on. Our role as authors is pretty much done.

So, what’s next? As you’ll discover in this episode, neither Andrew nor Sara are sure. Whether it’s Andrew trying to decide what project to focus on now, or me pondering a complete exit from the whole endeavor, we’re both tired and looking for some clarity in the breath-after-pub.

We also talk about: checking sales numbers, Sally Rooney’s bucket hat, and how we’d describe “the arc of a launch.” And there’s still one more book left to launch in this series! The This Creative Life book is off to the copyeditor and soon to meets its publishing fate.

A Song Called Home

The Temps

Coming-of-age as apocalypse - Andrew’s piece at LitHub

Julia Fox at the Oscars

This Creative Life - the book!

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