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Sep 2025
35m 53s

Episode 59: Pitch Craft with Laura Goode

The Clayman Institute for Gender Research
About this episode

Greeetings! It's been a while! But we're back and one of us (Laura!) has A BOOK! It's called Pitchcraft: The Writer's Guide to Getting Agented, Published, and Paid, and it's out next week. So this is a short introduction to that book, to the writing life and to how Laura came to write it.

We also have important announcements about the future of the podcast -- no worries, we're not going anywhere! But we're making some changes! Tune in and find out more!

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