How to Hate Your Work and Also Sell It-- at the same time. Episode 363

<p>Howdy from KJ’s office, where I’m trapped because outside these doors, an angry child lies in wait, ready to tell me all I’ve done wrong as a parent over lo these many years. Good thing I had Jess and Sarina to keep me company while we talk about marketing, selling, navigating the socials, blurbing and asking for blurbs and reading blurbs and oh, still writing the whole time.</p><p><strong>Links from the pod:</strong></p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.flyingpigbooks.com/">The Flying Pig</a></p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9780316531238">The Chain</a>, Adrian McKinty</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9781956955545">On Good Authority</a>, Anna David</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9780375826696">The Eragon series</a>, Christopher Paolini</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9781950155644">Good As Gold</a>, Sarina Bowen</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/@jesslahey">Jess’s daily videos </a></p><p>I’m not linking the dumb lounge chair I’m sorry.</p><p><strong>#AmReading</strong></p><p><strong>Jess:</strong> <a target="_blank" href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9781956955545">On Good Authority</a>, Anna David</p><p><strong>KJ:</strong> <a target="_blank" href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9780063250833">Yellowface</a>, R.F. Kuang (<a target="_blank" href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9781250790750">The Plot</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9780316500296">Who Is Maud Dixon</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9781982199456">The Writing Retreat</a>) (note—I wrote more about this in the #AmReading Substack <a target="_blank" href="https://kjda.substack.com/p/if-you-love-writers-behaving-badly">HERE</a> —link also below.)</p><p><strong>Sarina:</strong> <a target="_blank" href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9780063230927">We All Want Impossible Things</a>, Catherine Newman</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9781541758513">Ghost