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June 2024

IT'S A BIRD, IT'S A PLANE, IT'S AN AUTHOR BRAND!
retiring "it's who you know" for "it's who you're bringing in"
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Cassie Mannes Murray
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Three Questions with author & editor Jessie Gaynor
The Literary Hub editor and author of THE GLOW talks about funnies & jokey asides, pitching tricks, writing production, and the brief elation of…
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Cassie Mannes Murray
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Smoke
An excerpt of "French Girl," Jesse Lee Kercheval's forthcoming graphic memoir.
Published on Memoir Land • 
BUILDING INTIMACY
On why we have got to stop equating "influence" and "intimacy" in the book sale model & do you want readers or media hits?
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Cassie Mannes Murray
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May 2024

✨ HALF A STAR ✨
analyzing sales data (roughly) through Goodreads ratings, reviews, and shelving
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Cassie Mannes Murray
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Three Questions with book critic & author Bethanne Patrick
The Book Maven on publishing, pursuing, and picking books!
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Cassie Mannes Murray
PICK ME. CHOOSE ME. LOVE ME.
on the New York City of it all. (I didn't say south one time in this post, so I guess I should slap it here--publish southern writers!)
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Cassie Mannes Murray
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April 2024

enTITLEment
on possibility over expectation (plus a mini footnote rant on why we all can't be Leslie Jamison or ... can we?)
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Cassie Mannes Murray
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Three Questions With Michael Ramos
(okay, four!) Assistant Director of the Publishing Laboratory at UNCW and Art Director of Ecotone Magazine answers three questions + a bonus.
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Cassie Mannes Murray
"A series of fortunate coincidences" - how two writers made it from creative writing students to publishing professionals | Part I
Interview with Zoe-Aline Howard (literary agent at Howland Literary, and book publicist at Pine State Publicity) and Cassie Mannes Murray (director of…
Published on ONLY POEMS • 
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