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Writer Roadmaps: "How To" Guides for Launching a Writing Career
An eight-part masterclass on launchign a writing career by award-winning writer and fiction editor Steve Chang
Oct 30, 2025
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How to Freelance Book Reviews and Why You Should
Why negative reviews and soft coverage are both valid, what a pitch can do beyond securing us work, and why a little "randomness" in a review can be…
Oct 1, 2024
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steve chang
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How to Conduct Better Interviews: 5 Tips for Deeper Q&As
Why acting confused isn’t just for the hardware or bookstore, interviewing vs interrogating and why it’s good to share personal baggage
Sep 25, 2024
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steve chang
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How to Level Up Your (Interview) Pitches: A Breakdown
What is essential in a strong pitch, how to prep for emailing strangers and how to advance yourself even when pitches don’t go
Sep 23, 2024
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steve chang
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How to Write Across Genres and Stay Winning
How to finish a book-length project (quickly), why we should focus more on craft than career and how to gauge and assert our value in the market
Sep 16, 2024
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steve chang
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How to Land a Major Deal for Your YA Novel
How Reddit and YouTube can help writers, how to get agents on the phone and what to ask, and what sorts of discipline it takes to write novels
Sep 11, 2024
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steve chang
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How to Grow Your Writing Career Through Literary Translation
How to bring a translation from discovery to publication, why personality matters more than “talent” and how to plug into the whisper nfetwork
Sep 9, 2024
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steve chang
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How to Become an NEA (and Stegner!) Fellow
Turning literary icons into personal mentors, tips for crafting effective statements of purpose and how to overcome being stuck on "The Ladder of…
Sep 4, 2024
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steve chang
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How to Become a Reese's Book Club LitUp Author
Plus how publishing in lit mags might be overrated, which workshops and classes actually help, & why MFAs and New York aren't always 'it'
Sep 2, 2024
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steve chang
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