GET KNOWN WHILE YOU SLEEP
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Writer Mama, How to Raise a Writing Career Alongside Your Kids
Writers on the Rise, Published by Christina Katz
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This comic goes well with what I said in my interview over at the new revamped Writer’s Digest site.
The life of a writer is SOOOOO glamorous…not.
C
I’ve thought many times that a reality show about a writer is the last frontier. I mean, there’s a show for virtually everything else these days! But unless it showed a tense face-off with an editor, or a well-attended book signing, I guess the interest factor would be sorta low…