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The research and targeting strategies that help writers identify the outlets most likely to respond -- and avoid wasting query letters on editors who were never going to bite.
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The platform choices, content strategies, and audience-building habits that separate bloggers who grow a genuine readership from those who publish interesting work into the void.
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A freelancer's candid account of the boundary-setting, scheduling, and mindset shifts that helped her stop feeling like she was always behind on everything at once.
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The preparation habits and in-the-moment techniques that help writers, authors, and media professionals perform well under the pressure of a live or recorded media interview.
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The entertainment photographer on the art of reading what a publicist, magazine, or celebrity actually needs from a shoot -- and delivering it while still doing work worth his name.
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The bestselling novelist on the autobiographical impulse behind her fiction -- and why the books that have resonated most with readers are the ones she wrote to process her own life first.
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The specific skills beyond writing that digital-era editors and publishers look for -- and how to build them without abandoning the craft that got you in the door in the first place.
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The author and business consultant on his argument that digital tools expand what storytellers can accomplish -- rather than cheapening or replacing the craft of original idea generation.
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The television host on the public scandal that derailed his career -- and the unexpected way losing everything became a catalyst for a more honest and intentional second act in media.
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The MTV executive behind the show on the internal debate about whether the network could responsibly tell teenage pregnancy stories -- and what made the format ultimately work.
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