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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.
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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 Wedneday.
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3 weeks 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 | 
courtneymaum.substack.com | Courtney Maum
Hi there and TGIF. I wanted to pop in with my top tips for those of you headed to AWP next week. Not just tips for the sprawling and highly social conference itself, but specifically for the conference being in Los Angeles, which is a tricky city to hold a literary conference in. I’m gonna jump right into it, because those of us attending need to plan and pack. Bring a snowsuit.
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1 month ago | 
courtneymaum.substack.com | Courtney Maum |Amy Shearn |Marcy Dermansky |Leigh Stein
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 38K+ subscribers.
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1 month ago | 
courtneymaum.substack.com | Courtney Maum
Hello!In just a little bit, I’m going to offer my not so humble opinion on the memoir rules that Meghan Markle breaks with her new Netflix series, “With Love, Meghan,” but first, some exciting news and housekeeping. I have exciting personal news! You know that novel I’ve been revising so much that I made an in-depth video regarding how and why I was revising it?
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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 38K+ subscribers.
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2 months ago | 
courtneymaum.substack.com | Courtney Maum |Yascha Mounk |Kathleen Schmidt |Lauren Hough
Hello and welcome to the almost-weekend. My only plans include waiting for the slightly warmer weather to hit the east coast so that my Olympic ice rink of a driveway will stop being a death threat. Thank you to everyone who wrote in with their own ghost encounters after I shared the story of the straw-hatted phantom who plagued me while I was in San Miguel last week. There might be a part two to that story, because I’m speaking to a medium today, so we’ll see what happens.
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2 months ago | 
courtneymaum.substack.com | Courtney Maum |M. L. Rio
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 37K+ subscribers. Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. You can listen to an audio voiceover of this story using the above link.
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2 months 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 36K+ subscribers. Hello and thank goodness it is Friday and that January—which has been four months long—is handing the baton to February. This post marks the conclusion of our January querying intensive.