Audra Wolfe

That said I chased this by speaking to no one but my husband and my cat for 24 hours and that too has been glorious

Having had a few days of really intense in-person interactions I will acknowledge they are preferable to interactions on the internet

What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again?

Casting off word counts from hard copy book manuscripts

Pie bc cakes and cookies need not be circles

if you’d like to learn more about my Memoir Year workshop, come to this free virtual info session on 12/8! writer.org/event/virtua...

I really can't emphasize enough that if you care about local politics, all you gotta do is show up. Just a regular schmegular person showing up. Literally just show up consistently in person and within a remarkably short amount of time, you will have a shocking amount of influence.

Disappointed to learn Schnucks cheese comes out of the same factory as Walmart cheese www.usatoday.com/story/money/...

Lemmmmmmmon

Wow ok I did not need to see that

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The person who has my name sans middle initial never tells correspondents she isn’t me, which is unfortunate but not really her fault.

Do other people experience this phenomenon of people writing to you at a misspelled email address and then being annoyed at you when they realize it? Like it’s somehow my fault that they didn’t send me the thing?

I have made exactly one political futures bet, on whether Johnson will still be speaker as of January 1. Feelin’ lucky

Lit Hub’s 43 Favorite Books of 2025 It’s been another hard year for so many people, and in so many ways, but best-of lists are for remembering the good times, and reading is always good (at least the way we do it). Here are the…

Everything is terrible but this list of books from @lithub.com.web.brid.gy is pretty great lithub.com/lit-hubs-43-...

Please send Jeffries et al to whatever media management course Mark Kelly took

A church lady gave them to the youth group in my childhood

I have no idea if this is true but it’s certainly plausible if you’ve read Number Go Up

Tonight we will watch Death By Lightning, which I insist in calling Ride the Lightning, revealing myself as a hopeless GenX former headbanger

There's a labeler for the Harpers Letter: bsky.app/profile/harp...

I consumed the dessert trifecta: persimmon pudding, pecan pie, pumpkin pie

And creamed corn, why have one corn product when you can have two!

Am so grateful for the friends who have permanently integrated us into their Thanksgiving, never more so than when I remember the spread of white vegetables prepared by my dearly beloved grandmother: boiled turnips, boiled parsnips, mashed potatoes, and canned hominy. Accompanied w/ oyster stuffing

I love love love a corn pudding, the more sour cream the better

A persimmon pudding steamed in a Bundt pan. It’s a nice brown on a white plate with blue stripes on a red countertop.

Happy Thanksgiving!

I like this one (w/ native persimmons obv), steamed in a pressure cooker. It’s a little unorthodox—my grandma always baked hers flat, but it came out the color and texture of cat food. Tasted great! But I prefer something that also looks delicious. legacy.culinate.com/content/3639...

I retreat to inform you that persimmonpudding.com is no more but the Mitchell chamber of commerce is there to help with a decades worth of prize winning persimmon pudding recipes

Tis the day when, like all good ex-Hoosiers with access to a persimmon pulp, I google “persimmon pudding”

Taking this as a check in, glad you and yours are not involved

Something people need to understand: There’s no code to crack in book publishing.

Meeting with an editor at a conference * Identify likely publishers. They are ones who * have published in similar fields recently (in the last 5 years) * are attending the conference * Find the editor’s contact info (usually on the publisher’s website) * Email the editor a query letter * Introduce yourself * Describe your project briefly (1 paragraph) * Attach a book proposal if you have one * Ask if the editor is available to meet * Prepare for the meeting * It will be an informal 1/2 hour conversation * Be ready to describe your project without going deep into the weeds * Ask questions * Enjoy the conversation - this book may or may not be a good fit for that publisher, but treat this as professional networking because your next book might be

Hello historians 🗃️! Planning on attending #AHA26 and have book ideas in mind?

Now is a good time to start thinking about contacting editors to meet with in Chicago. It's fun, it's easy, and you'll be chatting with people who love to chat about books! 👇