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The Freelancer explores the fiction publishing world through a queer, social justice lens. It’s for authors and industry professionals committed to building thoughtful, lasting careers.
It covers how to sustain creative work in ways that prioritize care, relationship-building, and long-term artistic practice over the relentless grind of capitalism, tech-bro disruption narratives, and AI hype.
New episodes will drop when I have the energy!
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Aktualisierungshäufigkeit:
every 26 days
Durchschnittliche Audiolänge:
22 minutes
Englisch
Vereinigte Staaten
18 Folgen
seit 8. Februar 2025
episodic
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Today I'm chatting with Sophie Playle, a fiction editor and course creator highly regarded in the editorial world for her fiction developmental editing and line/copyediting courses.
We discuss her journey in editing and how the world has changed since she started in the early …
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This episode is all about book editor visibility.
tl;dr: For most editors, visibility is an optional strategy, not a necessity
Tune in to hear how:
Visibility isn't something you have to do if you're an editor.
You can have a fallow season without pressure to be visible.…
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In today's ep I'm chatting with Vesna Kurilic of Shtriga Books again!
Today we discuss inclusive language and nonbinary gender in Croatian language and fiction. We explore how culturally specific the discussions around conscious and inclusive language are, and what challe…
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In the last episode of 2025, I discuss how the year went from a business and marketing perspective.
2025 was a big experiment in running my business without social media.
Things didn't go exactly to plan—tune in to learn which part of my business suffered, the big decisions I …
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How does publishing work outside the Anglosphere?
In today's ep, I'm chatting with Vesna Kurilic, owner of Shtriga Books – a small press in Croatia publishing queer speculative fiction.
We discuss how things work differently in Croatia, the yawning gulf between literary a…
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Why do you read stories? What keeps you turning the page?
Wish fulfilment is one possible answer! Tune in to hear other reasons, alongside a chat about wish fulfilment in romance and dystopian fiction, the story problems it can create, and how wish fulfilment links to the oppressio…
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This week's ep is all about how we balance our editing, coaching, and writerly selves and businesses! 😍
We discuss the query trenches, writing routines and habits, whether you need to be a writer to coach writers, and lots more besides!
Here are a few things we mention:
Karen&…
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This week's ep is all about lit mags! ✨
If you're exploring this space and trying to figure it out, this podcast ep is for you.
I discuss how to find the right magazine for your story, the importance of reading widely, and the realities of rejection in the submission proc…
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Welcome to Season 2! Yay!
Today's topic is decolonizing fiction craft, and I'm chatting with the book coach and fiction editor Karen Parker. We cover everything from the hero's journey and remakes to the Iowa Writers' Workshop and how NOT to workshop. Come hang …
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Story structure is one issue fiction editors love to disagree about. At one end of the spectrum, some promote rigid templates, while others say "anything goes."
In this episode, I cover ...
the problem with rigid approaches to story structure
why I dislike Save the Cat! …
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