1000 Words of Summer starts May 30 and I've already started getting some of the contributing author letters in and it's going to be a REAL GOOD YEAR.
Come write 1000 words a day for 2 weeks straight & change your life?
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If you've submitted something to the Second Chance Inbox and received this message when querying me with that same project, feel free to reattempt when I reopen next month. I've adjusted the pre-qualifications for my query inbox.
"Some say the pandemic prompted them to reconsider unsatisfying corporate jobs, while others say that because they could not find LGBTQ+ literature in their local bookstores, they decided to open their own."
This week! Join us over your lunch hour, recorded if you can't make it live.
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📣Mark your calendar! Join @michellehazen.bsky.social, author of 🔪SERIAL KILLER WANTED❤️ at the Chicago North Writer's Conference Spring Fling on APRIL 16-18!
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There is no crime novel subgenre that inspires more feelings of complicated ambivalence in me than the police procedural. But once I realized how much fiction diverges from reality and treated the procedural as a vehicle for hope, I could put this starter pack of personal favorite books together.
Toooo funny!! Thanks for the pick-me-up!
Check out my post focusing on mysteries and thrillers for my query workshop today.
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Here’s everything you need to know about the Topps lawsuit.
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#DVPit 2026 a bluesky pitch event for creators from marginalized communities Wednesday, September 30th 2026 on bluesky follow us for more: @dvpit.bsky.social or go to dvpit.carrd.co for more info
#DVpit is returning in 2026 on Bluesky!
A bluesky pitch event for creators from marginalized communities to pitch their unagented projects to agents and editors!
#DVpit will be on Bluesky on Wednesday, September 30, 2026!
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This blew me away. Of all the books coming out this week, @theatlantic.com chose mine to highlight? I don't even want to know how they chose it (maybe someone bribed them?). It's amazing!
Congrats!! Very awesome!
This photo is fake.
Many people have pointed it out in the replies but the person running this account just keeps hiding the replies.
Block this account.
When you write about family: the fine line between honesty and revealing the private times of others. @lhertzel.bsky.social at @dintywmoore.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2026/03/23/p... #writingcommunity #authorlife #memoir #family
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Our chapter website has just gone live! Check out www.mwasouthwest.com
The Lambda Literary Awards shortlist is out! Congrats to all the finalists.
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In a few weeks I’ll be teaching one of my favorite workshops, on using the forms found in fairy tales to apply to any creative writing to open up new possibilities. It’s always highly generative! writingworkshops.com/products/onc...
Teaching a new workshop on May 9 to get people revved up to write for this year's #1000wordsofsummer (and forever) www.jamiattenberg.com/workshops
I am officially OPEN TO QUERIES!! And I'm back on QueryManager 😍
The LA Times book festival schedule has been announced. I get to interview Susan Orlean, Melissa Febos and Lana Lin! On Saturday, April 18. www.latimes.com/events/festi...
If you want a taste of my new memoir GHOSTS OF FOURTH STREET (pubbing March 31 from @uminnpress.bsky.social ) here's an excerpt in today's @literaryhub.bsky.social : lithub.com/family-ghost... Enjoy!
Congrats, Laurie. A great excerpt. Looking forward the rest!
March 14th and 15th
