A Solution for Your Lonely Inbox

The next issue of the Writer Unboxed newsletter — the Writer Inboxed — goes live tomorrow. (Sign-up here.)

Here’s what we’ve got planned for you this month:

• Special guest Jon Clinch talks about a book that changed his life. Jon is an award-winning writer and a teacher. His first novel, Finn, which relates the backstory of Huckleberry Finn’s father, was an American Library Association Notable Book. It was named one of the best novels of 2007 by the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Christian Science Monitor and Book Sense. It was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle’s first-ever Best Recommended List and the Sargent First Novel Prize. His second novel, Kings of the Earth, was #1 on the annual summer reading list prepared by O, The Oprah Magazine.
• Jessica Brockmole gleans productivity tips from literary agent  Courtney Miller-Callihan.
• Literary agent and WU contributor Donald Maass discusses the value of self-assessment in constructing and revealing character.
• F + W editor and WU contributor Chuck Sambuchino talks about the limits of honesty when crafting memoir.
• Dee DeTarsio falls in love with an unboxed book — Michael Lowenthal’s The Paternity Test.
• Want to ensure your cover art is unique? Get tips from an anonymous author.
• Erika Liodice is back with some highlights from recent publishing news.
• Independent editor Victoria Mixon explains the real value in writing.
• Blog mamas Kathleen Bolton and Therese Walsh have a tip on how to look fabulous for your next photo session — or TV interview.
• Last but not least, some of you take the stage as Vaughn Roycroft shares the best links from this month’s round-up on the WU Facebook page. (Want to have your piece qualify for inclusion? Watch for Vaughn’s thread asking for submissions during the third week of each month.)

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Thanks, peeps. Now back to your regular programming.

Jan O'Hara

A USA Today bestselling author, former family physician and academic, Jan O’Hara (she/her) left the world of medicine behind to follow her dreams of becoming a writer. She writes love stories that zoom from wackadoodle to heartfelt in six seconds flat: (Opposite of Frozen; Cold and Hottie; Desperate Times, Desperate Pleasures). Her latest Christmas novella, The Cowboy’s Comeback Christmas, is part of a 9-author-strong anthology (A Cowboy This Christmas: A Sweet Romance Anthology). She also contributed to Author in Progress, a Writer’s Digest Book edited by Therese Walsh.

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