Write Big: Beyond the Book Deal

#AmWriting by KJ

Sep 4, 202656:42Arts

Host Jennie Nash talks with novelist and journalist Caroline Madden about why writers crave traditional publishing deals and how that desire can become an unhealthy obsession tied to external validation and “pick me” ene...

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