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Intermission: Jenn and Preeti Talk Publishing

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While Preeti finishes up deadline hell, rather than leaving the feed quiet, Jenn and Preeti decided to do a quick "Ask Us Anything" about publishing! Thanks to all the patrons who submitted questions -- we hope you enjoy the answers.


Writing Tools:

MS Word (standard)

Novels in Scrivner, revisions in Word

Plotter for digital corkboard for plotting


Marvel Comics: The Untold Story by Sean Howe


SFF Yeah: Cover Talk episode


Agent Resources:

Kate McKean’s Substack: Agents + Books

EricSmithRocks.com

Jenn Laughran on Tumblr


Fit for the Gods: Greek Mythology Reimagined


Spider-Man's Bad Connection (September 5). Preorder from Brave + Kind Bookshop for signed books, or see Preeti at her launch!


Gambit & Rogue series on Marvel Unlimited


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