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5 days ago | 
courtneymaum.substack.com | Courtney Maum
Welcome to Before and After the Book Deal, a reader-supported publication that teaches you to write better while gaining insights about the publishing industry at large. To get the full experience from this newsletter, consider joining our community of 39K+ subscribers. Hello and happy Mother’s Day to all who celebrate!I wanted to pop in with a live reading of a poem from a collection that has been a touchstone for me.
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1 week ago | 
courtneymaum.substack.com | Courtney Maum
Welcome to Before and After the Book Deal, a reader-supported publication that teaches you to write better while gaining insights about the publishing industry at large. To get the full experience from this newsletter, consider joining our community of 39K+ subscribers. Hello and Happy Wednesday!Welcome to the first dispatch of “Reading Room”—a series in which I’ll read something out loud that I’m enjoying with no preamble as to why I’m enjoying it.
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2 weeks ago | 
courtneymaum.substack.com | Courtney Maum
Welcome to Before and After the Book Deal, a reader-supported publication that teaches you to write better while gaining insights about the publishing industry at large. To get the full experience from this newsletter, consider joining our community of 39K+ subscribers. Hello and Happy Wednesday.
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3 weeks ago | 
courtneymaum.substack.com | Courtney Maum
Hello and TGIF. I have no plans this weekend other than showing up to my local indie for Independent Bookstore Day and that’s exactly how I like it. We live in a small town where my favorite friends are those who under schedule. I love leaving room for spontaneity and last minute get togethers—it’s the freaking best. But there is something around the bend that’s coming, and that is Mother’s Day.
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3 weeks ago | 
courtneymaum.substack.com | Courtney Maum
Welcome to Before and After the Book Deal, a reader-supported publication that teaches you to write better while gaining insights about the publishing industry at large. To get the full experience from this newsletter, consider joining our community of 39K+ subscribers. Hello and happy Wednesday!I’m taking a break from our financial literacy series to touch on craft this week.
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1 month ago | 
courtneymaum.substack.com | Courtney Maum
Welcome to Before and After the Book Deal, a reader-supported publication that teaches you to write better while gaining insights about the publishing industry at large. To get the full experience from this newsletter, consider joining our community of 39K+ subscribers. Hello and happy Wednesday.
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1 month ago | 
courtneymaum.substack.com | Courtney Maum
Welcome to Before and After the Book Deal, a reader-supported publication that teaches you to write better while gaining insights about the publishing industry at large. To get the full experience from this newsletter, consider joining our community of 39K+ subscribers. Hello and happy Wedneday.
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1 month ago | 
courtneymaum.substack.com | Courtney Maum
Hello there and happy Sunday,Last week, I had an article come out in The Guardian about the medical gaslighting I experienced in my nearly four decade-long hunt for a solution to my chronic insomnia. Here’s an excerpt from that piece:When I tell people that I have immense trouble with sleep, what they hear is that I’m difficult, neurotic, a diva with control issues. For nearly 40 years, every doctor I’ve pleaded with has announced that the problem is in my head.
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1 month ago | 
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Courtney Maum
In February, I taught memoir writing at a conference in Mexico where the faculty is traditionally put up with local hosts. Mine was especially communicative in the months leading up to my arrival, going out of his way to indicate affordable rooftop bars, the finest locations to view murals, and general best practices for the city he’d adopted as his own. So when I told my host that I have chronic insomnia, I felt he’d take me seriously, given how generous he’d been in his emails.
