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My Experience in the 2019 Pitch Wars Mentorship Program

I’m so grateful for the Pitch Wars community and my mentorship with them in 2019! For those unfamiliar, Pitch Wars was a mentoring program where published/agented authors, editors, or industry interns chose one writer each, read their entire manuscript, and offered suggestions on how to make the manuscript shine for an agent showcase. The mentor also…

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How writing and storytelling helped me recover from burnout

About five years ago, I did the first public reading of my non-academic writing. I was a 40-something-year-old physician, and I was terrified. It was at a narrative medicine event, and I’d been selected to read one of my personal essays. A few days earlier, an experienced performer had given me some pointers. Identified which…

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What it’s been like to start a writing career in my forties

In one word, humbling. I am 49 years old, and my first novel, a speculative thriller called The Algorithm Will See You Now, published on 3/2/2023. I started writing it when I was 43. When I was 46, I ventured into the online writing world, mainly via Twitter. A social media newbie (I know, I know,…

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