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Friday Feast: How Instagram Changes Book Buying and Selling, Secrets to Publishing Your Debut Novel, Bookslut, Questions to Ask Before You Quit Your Day Job, and Geek Love

Kelly J. Ford / May 20, 2016 / 2 comments

Good morning, lit lovers! Our feast is short and to the point this week. And though the intro is brief, the links and the wisdom within are mighty. Read on for more.

Friday Feast: Advice for Struggling Artists, Submitting Authors & Debut Authors, and London Library Pubs (Just to Keep it Light)

Kelly J. Ford / April 24, 2015 / no comments

Critics. They’re everywhere: in our writing classes and writing groups, on the other side of an ISP, and sometimes (most of the time) in our own heads. The struggle is real, and this week’s links focus on people who have…

She’s a Full-Time Worker in Love with a Part-Time Gig

Kelly J. Ford / October 24, 2013 / 4 comments

I don’t know a lot of people who write full time, only people who wish that they could. The reality of mortgages or rent, cupcake expenditures and socks without holes tends to relegate those wishes to the fantasy worlds we…