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Recommended by Kari Luna

Strategies for publishing and marketing your book from an in-the-trenches publishing professional and published author. Always an emphasis on doable takeaways and fostering literary community.

For Dear Life with Maggie Smith

A newsletter about writing & other things that make this life dear—from the poet, not the dame

Gorgeous words and poetic musings for your oh-so-human heart.

- Kari Luna

Let Writing Change Your Life

By Monica Drake

Considering the stories that crash around us like a river, like meaning, like life, and the stories we tell, how they shape our being.

Monica Drake is a wealth of writing knowledge, craft teacher extraordinaire, and a fun and interesting human, too. Follow along!

- Kari Luna

Walk It Off

By Isaac Fitzgerald

That was tough. Let's go for a walk.

DrawTogether with WendyMac

By Wendy MacNaughton

Drawing explorations, lessons, and weekly art assignments from New York Times-bestselling artist Wendy MacNaughton. Paying subscribers get full access to the DrawTogether Grown-Ups Table creative community and drawing assignments.

Cheryl Strayed's Dear Sugar

This is the home of two newsletters. Paid subscribers get Cheryl's Dear Sugar Letter monthly, plus her free newsletter several times a year, which includes her "Tells Us" author series. Free subscribers get everything but the monthly Dear Sugar Letter.

CRAFT TALK

By Craft Talk

CRAFT TALK is a weekly newsletter about writing, creativity and productivity from author Jami Attenberg. This is also the home of #1000wordsofsummer, where, once a year, we write 1000 words a day together for two weeks straight. (In 2024 it begins 6/1!)

Friends! It's almost time for #1000wordsofsummer. Sign up! And read these generous craft talks by Jami Attenberg, maven of motivation. xo

- Kari Luna