#poet #amwriting #amsubmitting #writerlife #writers #ampublishing

@authorlsuzuki.bsky.social Getting closer to a final cover. This is the latest version. I also got the mss back from copy editing, made all revisions, and got all the pieces to my book designer yesterday. On track for early June release!

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Did I just email two of my favorite authors and ask them to blurb my book? Yes, yes, I did… and it terrified me. But I did it anyway! And like so much of publishing, now I wait. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #AmPublishing

An astronaut in EVA gear takes a step forward on a dark ground, in front of a pink, yellow, blue, and dark brown sky speckled with light blue, pink, yellow, and white. Around him in teal are the words "Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity"

Hooray! My flash fiction piece "The Old Timer" was accepted to the Tea or Coffee ☕, Stars ✨, and Gravity 🪐 anthology by Air & Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social

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The Long Road to Girl Gone Wild: From First Essay to Publication & Promotion with Antonia Crane Welcome, writers and book lovers. The Bleeders is a podcast about book writing and publishing. https://thebleeders.substack.com/welcome: https://thebleeders.substack.com/welcome Today’s guest is Antonia Crane, author, academic, and one of my all-time favorite memoirists. In this special episode, the tables are turned as Antonia interviews me about my debut memoir https://amzn.to/4snxAA8, and we get into what it actually takes to write a book over 15 years and finally share it with the world. We talk about the long, nonlinear road from first essay to finished memoir, including incubators with Chloe Caldwell, revising through many drafts, and why sometimes you have to write an entire version of a book just to figure out what it isn’t. We also get into structure, how trusting your gut can be more important than following industry expectations, the difference between factual accuracy and emotional truth, the challenge of fact-checking your own life, and why writing about the past often means confronting the parts you’ve tried hardest to forget. We discuss “dark teachers,” perfectionism, and the complicated process of making meaning out of tough experiences like addiction, abusive relationships, and sexual trauma. Plus, we get into sex work, feminism, the male gaze, and the cultural forces shaping https://bookshop.org/a/85623/9781949487541—from growing up in small-town Minnesota to chasing Hollywood dreams and encountering its underbelly. Subscribe to Antonia's Substack https://antoniacrane.substack.com/welcome. Follow her on https://www.instagram.com/antoniacrane/ @antoniacrane, and buy your copy of her amazing memoir Spent on https://bookshop.org/a/85623/9781942600862, or wherever books are sold! Get your copy of Courtney's debut memoir Girl Gone Wild from https://bookshop.org/a/85623/9781949487541 or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://amzn.to/3M7EYR5. The Bleeders is hosted by Courtney Kocak. Follow her on https://www.instagram.com/courtneykocak/ and https://bsky.app/profile/courtneykocak.bsky.social. For more, check out her website https://courtneykocak.com/links. Courtney is teaching some upcoming workshops you might be interested in: - https://writingworkshops.com/products/the-multi-passionate-writers-life-zoom-seminar-with-courtney-kocak: https://writingworkshops.com/products/the-multi-passionate-writers-life-zoom-seminar-with-courtney-kocak - https://writingworkshops.com/products/how-to-build-a-platform-for-writers-who-shudder-at-the-thought-zoom-seminar: https://writingworkshops.com/products/how-to-build-a-platform-for-writers-who-shudder-at-the-thought-zoom-seminar - https://writingworkshops.com/products/start-a-newsletter-to-supercharge-your-platform-network-business-zoom-seminar: https://writingworkshops.com/products/start-a-newsletter-to-supercharge-your-platform-network-business-zoom-seminar - https://writingworkshops.com/products/memoir-in-essays-incubator-nonfiction-writing-workshop-online-june-2026: https://writingworkshops.com/products/memoir-in-essays-incubator-nonfiction-writing-workshop-online-june-2026 - https://writingworkshops.com/products/land-big-bylines-by-writing-for-columns-zoom-seminar: https://writingworkshops.com/products/land-big-bylines-by-writing-for-columns-zoom-seminar - https://writingworkshops.com/products/start-podcast-workshop-courtney-kocak: https://writingworkshops.com/products/start-podcast-workshop-courtney-kocak

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Home page of website for Kay Daly, writer, featuring upcoming novel on the life of Lady Mary Wroth, titled Wilton House, coming April 13, 2027. Includes image of Wilton House in Wiltshire England, part of the book cover design (which shows the words "Wilton House" set against part of a woman clad in Renaissance-era clothes) and a review quote from Rebecca Makkai -“A layered literary journey in the mode of A. S. Byatt, with the researched detail of Hilary Mantel…”

Psssst. New website redesign...
www.kaydalywriter.com
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Avern. A new world. #fantasyseries #queerfantasy #avern #beverlylanderson #beverlylandersonwrites #amwriting #ampublishing #booksky #mm #mmf #polyamory #diversity #pirates #kindoms #royalty #evilrising

My brilliant illustrator @gretahummingbird.com just sent me the fully shaded internal illustrations for my middle grade fantasy, Away with the Fairies. The book is on track for early June release.
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Who Knew It Took That Much Focus to Thank People? | Sarah Avery Get more from Sarah Avery on Patreon

I got the acknowledgements, author's note, and dedication for Rugosa out to the publisher last night. Expressing gratitude in public is surprisingly complicated. Patreon blog post for subscribers:
www.patreon.com/posts/153755...
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The Evolution of Publishing: Traditional, Hybrid & Self-Publishing in 2026 with Brooke Warner Welcome, writers and book lovers. The Bleeders is a podcast about book writing and publishing. https://thebleeders.substack.com/welcome: https://thebleeders.substack.com/welcome Today’s guest is Brooke Warner, publisher of https://shewritespress.com/, author of https://bookshop.org/a/85623/9781631526701, renowned former editor at Seal Press, and a 25-year publishing industry veteran. She talks candidly about how the industry has evolved, why traditional publishing is no longer the only path, and what it really takes to build a writing career today. In this episode, Brooke breaks down the current publishing landscape across every lane: traditional, hybrid, and self-publishing—and why more authors are thinking beyond the Big Five. She shares how hybrid publishing emerged as a “third way,” its roots in co-publishing, and why entrepreneurial authors actually prefer it. We also get into the catch-22 of platform building and what actually sells books now, from the rise of podcasts, Substack, and TikTok to the enduring power of email lists (and why social media doesn’t convert the way you think it does). Brooke also dishes on PR, Amazon’s outsized—and often unfair—influence, and the behind-the-scenes realities of book distribution. Plus, we talk about AI’s growing presence in manuscript submissions, how publishers can spot it, and what it means for the future of writing. Subscribe to Brooke's Substack https://brookewarner.substack.com/welcome. Follow her on https://www.instagram.com/brooke_warner/ @brooke_warner, and buy your copy of Write On, Sisters! on https://bookshop.org/a/85623/9781631526701, or wherever books are sold! Get your copy of Courtney's debut memoir Girl Gone Wild from https://bookshop.org/a/85623/9781949487541 or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://amzn.to/3M7EYR5. Preorder 10 copies of Girl Gone Wild to join The Confessional—a live memoir writing residency during the launch of Girl Gone Wild. For more details, visit https://www.courtneykocak.com/teaching. The Bleeders is hosted by Courtney Kocak. Follow her on https://www.instagram.com/courtneykocak/ and https://bsky.app/profile/courtneykocak.bsky.social. For more, check out her website https://courtneykocak.com/links. Courtney is teaching some upcoming workshops you might be interested in: - https://writingworkshops.com/products/edit-elevate-revision-intensive-zoom-seminar-with-courtney-kocak: https://writingworkshops.com/products/edit-elevate-revision-intensive-zoom-seminar-with-courtney-kocak - https://writingworkshops.com/products/the-multi-passionate-writers-life-zoom-seminar-with-courtney-kocak: https://writingworkshops.com/products/the-multi-passionate-writers-life-zoom-seminar-with-courtney-kocak - https://writingworkshops.com/products/how-to-build-a-platform-for-writers-who-shudder-at-the-thought-zoom-seminar: https://writingworkshops.com/products/how-to-build-a-platform-for-writers-who-shudder-at-the-thought-zoom-seminar - https://writingworkshops.com/products/start-a-newsletter-to-supercharge-your-platform-network-business-zoom-seminar: https://writingworkshops.com/products/start-a-newsletter-to-supercharge-your-platform-network-business-zoom-seminar - https://writingworkshops.com/products/land-big-bylines-by-writing-for-columns-zoom-seminar: https://writingworkshops.com/products/land-big-bylines-by-writing-for-columns-zoom-seminar - https://writingworkshops.com/products/start-podcast-workshop-courtney-kocak: https://writingworkshops.com/products/start-podcast-workshop-courtney-kocak

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The Journey to a Book Contract I’m still pinching myself, but darn right, I’m celebrating…

The journey to my book contract has been a wild ride and years in the making... and I'll be sharing more about it over on Substack.

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Girl Gone Wild: The Story Behind My Memoir—Interviewed by Lili Gourley Welcome, writers and book lovers. The Bleeders is a podcast about book writing and publishing. https://thebleeders.substack.com/welcome: https://thebleeders.substack.com/welcome Today the tables are turned—host Courtney Kocak sits down with Trio House Press junior editor Lili Gourley to talk about her debut memoir Girl Gone Wild. Girl Gone Wild is a coming-of-age tale of ambition, delusion, drugs, sex, and misogyny... including selling T-shirts on the Girls Gone Wild bus. This special episode is a behind-the-scenes look at the book’s 15-year journey from first essay to publication, the revision process, how the Girls Gone Wild tour became the title essay, substance abuse, the writers who influenced her journey, how memoir can literally heal you, and, most importantly, what I hope you get from reading it. Get your copy of Girl Gone Wild from https://bookshop.org/a/85623/9781949487541 or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://amzn.to/3M7EYR5. Preorder 10 copies of Girl Gone Wild to join The Confessional—a live memoir writing residency during the launch of Girl Gone Wild. For more details, visit https://www.courtneykocak.com/teaching. The Bleeders is hosted by Courtney Kocak. Follow her on https://www.instagram.com/courtneykocak/ and https://bsky.app/profile/courtneykocak.bsky.social. For more, check out her website https://courtneykocak.com/links. Courtney is teaching some upcoming workshops you might be interested in: - https://writingworkshops.com/products/edit-elevate-revision-intensive-zoom-seminar-with-courtney-kocak: https://writingworkshops.com/products/edit-elevate-revision-intensive-zoom-seminar-with-courtney-kocak - https://writingworkshops.com/products/the-multi-passionate-writers-life-zoom-seminar-with-courtney-kocak: https://writingworkshops.com/products/the-multi-passionate-writers-life-zoom-seminar-with-courtney-kocak - https://writingworkshops.com/products/how-to-build-a-platform-for-writers-who-shudder-at-the-thought-zoom-seminar: https://writingworkshops.com/products/how-to-build-a-platform-for-writers-who-shudder-at-the-thought-zoom-seminar - https://writingworkshops.com/products/start-a-newsletter-to-supercharge-your-platform-network-business-zoom-seminar: https://writingworkshops.com/products/start-a-newsletter-to-supercharge-your-platform-network-business-zoom-seminar - https://writingworkshops.com/products/land-big-bylines-by-writing-for-columns-zoom-seminar: https://writingworkshops.com/products/land-big-bylines-by-writing-for-columns-zoom-seminar - https://writingworkshops.com/products/start-podcast-workshop-courtney-kocak: https://writingworkshops.com/products/start-podcast-workshop-courtney-kocak

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Good Morning!
Attempting to write that one thing (fiction) writers are really bad at: the dreaded book blurb 😬
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I was holding all five of my upcoming publications in my dream last night and I woke to my soul singing.

I am so thankful for the editors who decided to take a chance on my work. 💜

Soon my words will be in print!

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Cover Reveal : The Last Jager The last year has been a bit on the hectic side for me, what with one thing or another, so it’s nice to be able to come back here and share some exciting news with you all. And what news it i…

The one where I show off someone else's artwork and talk about my soon-to-be-released novella, The Last Jager. #AmWriting #AmPublishing

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Princes in forbidden love? Champions facing the ultimate evil? Aging adventurers taking one last job? What could possibly go wrong?
Read the Trials of Jarlbaith here: reamstories.com/ella_cher (NSFW/Erotica) #indiauthor #darkfantasy #adventure #writingcommunity #ampublishing #erotica #queer

Abomination Vaults: A Pathfinder Novel Abomination Vaults: A Pathfinder Novel - Kindle edition by de Bie, Erik Scott. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Abomination Vaults: A Pathfinder Novel.

Preorders for my Pathfinder novel, ABOMINATION VAULTS, are open now!

With you’re an established AV fan, got eaten by grothluts in the depths, or don’t know the adventure path at all, you’re in for a treat!

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Kenny B.Smith Spending over two decades working as a freelance ghostwriter, content writer and editor, they decided they had spent enough time creating works of art for others. While most of their professional…

Order your copy - www.kennybsmith.com
Also on Kindle Unlimited and Kobo Unlimited.
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Women’s History Month reminder 💛

Amphorae is proudly women owned, and we are honored to help amplify stories that matter.

Here is to women leading, creating, and shaping the publishing world.

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Viva la Book Review will host its second free workshop in mid-March! This time, Bill Marx will dissect how to write a positive review without relying on cliches and platitudes. 

Register at https://tinyurl.com/contactviva 

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Join "The Fire in our Heads" Newsletter Join Adrastos and Maya in their epic reign over an ancient island, facing the twilight of their civilization. Together, they craft a legacy, a message echoing through time's corridors of mystery, for ...

Just sent out the latest edition of "The Fire in Our Heads" - my monthly (at most!) newsletter. Haven't read it yet? Hit the link below and get my story ISLAND'S END *free* just for signing up. #IndieAuthor #BookSky #WorthyNewsletter #SeriouslyIPutALotOfTimeIntoThese #AmWriting #AmPublishing

They're coming for us.

Book 2 cover in the works - what do we think?
Book 1 Release on March 2.

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Before & After the Book Deal: The Truth About Publishing Success with Courtney Maum Welcome, writers and book lovers. The Bleeders is a podcast about book writing and publishing. https://thebleeders.substack.com/welcome: https://thebleeders.substack.com/welcome Today’s guest is Courtney Maum—novelist, memoirist, and author of Before and After the Book Deal—and she talks candidly about the reality of a writing career, the myth of the breakout book, and why longevity matters more than literary hype.In this episode, Courtney breaks down what publishing actually looks like across every lane: Big Five launches with national tours, indie presses that nurture your inner “art witch,” and self-publishing born out of necessity. She shares the story behind the book that almost never happened—and how the lowest advance of her career became the one that defined her platform—plus why the industry now expects authors to function as marketers, publicists, event planners, and content creators all at once.We also discuss building an audience in the newsletter era, the limits of social media, and why “a thousand true fans” is a better goal than virality. Courtney explains how writers can protect their mental health in a system built on comparison, what’s actually changed since 2020 (AI, proposals, platform pressure), and why readers—not gatekeepers—ultimately determine a book’s shelf life. This conversation is essential listening for any writer trying to build a sustainable creative career in today’s publishing landscape. Preorder Courtney Maum's latest book https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/courtney-maum/alan-opts-out/9780316599108/ and preorder Courtney Kocak's debut memoir https://bookshop.org/a/85623/9781949487541. Subscribe to Courtney Maum's Substack https://courtneymaum.substack.com/welcome. Follow her on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cbmaum/, and buy your copy of Before and After the Book Deal on https://bookshop.org/a/85623/9781948226400, or wherever books are sold! The Bleeders is hosted by Courtney Kocak. Follow her on https://www.instagram.com/courtneykocak/ and https://bsky.app/profile/courtneykocak.bsky.social. For more, check out her website https://courtneykocak.com/links. Courtney is teaching some upcoming workshops you might be interested in: - https://writingworkshops.com/products/land-big-bylines-by-writing-for-columns-zoom-seminar: https://writingworkshops.com/products/land-big-bylines-by-writing-for-columns-zoom-seminar - https://writingworkshops.com/products/start-podcast-workshop-courtney-kocak: https://writingworkshops.com/products/start-podcast-workshop-courtney-kocak - https://writingworkshops.com/products/edit-elevate-revision-intensive-zoom-seminar-with-courtney-kocak: https://writingworkshops.com/products/edit-elevate-revision-intensive-zoom-seminar-with-courtney-kocak - https://writingworkshops.com/products/how-to-build-a-platform-for-writers-who-shudder-at-the-thought-zoom-seminar: https://writingworkshops.com/products/how-to-build-a-platform-for-writers-who-shudder-at-the-thought-zoom-seminar - https://writingworkshops.com/products/start-a-newsletter-to-supercharge-your-platform-network-business-zoom-seminar: https://writingworkshops.com/products/start-a-newsletter-to-supercharge-your-platform-network-business-zoom-seminar

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This is week one of my patreon, and there's going to be something for everyone.
On the FREE tier - a short essay on worldbuilding (a follow up in a couple of weeks)
On the $5 tier: An exclusive short story
On the $10 tier: Chapter One of my WIP.

Links are in my bio!

Away with the Fairies, my MG fantasy, will be published this summer through Scribe Hive Publishing. Here are the character studies and back cover blurb that will be incorporated into the cover design. The character studies were done by Greta Hummingbird.

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Honest reviews needed
Any bloggers, especially UK based.
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Quick reminder: I'll be teaching two #Masterclasses in about 12 days at @ltuesymposium.bsky.social 2026! Tickets are still available - $45 for 4 hours of awesomeness (if I do say so myself). ltue.net/jason-kristo... #booksky #indieauthor #smallpress #ampublishing #amwriting #queries #ideageneration

Two printed piles of manuscript and some pink laces.

One copy bound…

Handwritten title. Et voilá!

It’s been a hot minute since I last handmade a few copies of #mrsCleyton …

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It's here! It's here!

The cover reveal is here.

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Nice 🤩 mine: “this” “that”
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