SLANT LETTER

THE CIRCLE: Icons of the Creative Journey

How to craft a circle your reader actually wants to join

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Five Icons of the Creative Journey

Plus your chance to get a comped paid subscription!

Oct 15

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September 2025

Studio Hours: You Asked, an Editor Answered

How to know when to self-publish + notes on bestselling memoir All the Way to the River

Sep 19

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🍂Three Prompts for Your Creative Process as It Meets the Fall Season

In my last letter, I wrote about the greening and grounding days of summer, but we’re in a new season now.

Sep 11

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August 2025

My honest answer when people ask me what I’m working on next

When I released my book Even After Everything in October, one of the biggest questions people asked me—and ask all writers on this threshold—is, “What…

Aug 20

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Three Strategies for Telling It Slant

Case studies of crafting your angle through vision and voice

Aug 7

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July 2025

An Editor's Best Message-Mapping Trick

How to structure good bones for your book or writing project

Jul 17

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😬For the writer feeling the cringe of re-reading older work

On keeping in touch with our past selves and past drafts

Jul 2

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June 2025

The Three Movements of a Reader's Journey

On book endings + commissioning your reader

Jun 12

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🌿 Today-only book sale!

Plus advice for hopeful authors

Jun 7

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May 2025

Stories that Read Us

Notes on creative reciprocity from Pádraig Ó Tuama's In the Shelter

May 14

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April 2025

Lectio Divina on Our Typos

Three prompts for a playful writing practice from Pádraig Ó Tuama's In the Shelter

Apr 29

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