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Main Topic: Favorite Writing Craft Books (starts at 13:02)

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Segment 1 (Announcements/Author Updates):

• (Valerie) decluttering, pitching conferences, catching up with emails!
• (Erick) client work, reorganizing my life around ghost-writing

What are you reading?

• Valerie:  Start Thinking Rich by Brad Klontz and Adrian Brambila; The Turn of the Key (Ruth Ware)
• • (Not ready to give up on them, but struggling to finish them:) Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman; The Year of the Puppy (Alexandra Horowitz) ;  The Teller of Small Fortunes Julie Leong 
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• Erick:  The Boy from the Woods (Harlan Coben); looking for cozy fantasy next

• Segment 2 (Resources/Tips/Tidbits):

• Tidbit #1: Moon Lists: Questions and Rituals for Self-Reflection, a Guided Journal by Leigh Patterson
• Tidbit #2: 
• Segment 3 (Mindset-Craft-Biz Check): 

Segment 4 (Main Topic):  Starts at 13:02.

Fast-Draft Your Memoir (Rachael Herron)

Thinking in Pictures (John Sayles)

Poemcrazy (Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge)

The Art of Dramatic Writing (Lajos Egri)

On Writing (Stephen King)

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (George Saunders)

Save the Cat! (Blake Snyder)

Writing in Restaurants (David Mamet)

Notable Mention: Story Engineering (Larry Brooks), Running Down a Dream: Your Road Map to Winning Creative Battles (Tim Grahl); Story Hypothesis (J.P. Rindfleisch IX); Three Story Method (J.Thorn and Zach Bohannon); The Anatomy of a Best Seller (Sacha Black)

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