Pull Up a Chair: A Writer’s Guide to Craft, Confidence, and Career
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No one hands you a map for this. You figure out how to find your voice, how to survive rejection, how to keep writing when you still need a day job, and how to turn a manuscript into an actual career—usually by getting it wrong a few times first.
Amra Pajalic has been getting it wrong, and then right, for thirty years: as a novelist, a teacher, a mother writing in the cracks of a working life, and the host of a podcast where working writers talk honestly about the parts of this job nobody puts in the acknowledgements. Pull Up a Chair gathers everything she's learned into one conversational, no-nonsense guide—from finding your voice and writing from pain without breaking yourself, to navigating traditional versus indie publishing, pitching with confidence, building a sustainable practice, and actually making money as an author. This isn't a book about waiting for inspiration or the perfect writing room. It's a book about doing the work anyway—with practical tools, real numbers, and the kind of company that makes the long road feel less lonely. Pull up a chair. Let's talk about it. This book is available only to my newsletter subscribers. |