LIFE IS A HOT MESS, BOOKS SHOULD BE TOO
How novelist Meredith Turits learned to embrace storytelling with untidy endings
Very happy to launch Draft One, my new section at Medium Cool, a place where writers get to talk about their triumphs and failures. Here's Meredith's Turits' essay on how the death of one book led to a breakthrough on another.
www.themediumcool.com/p/life-is-a-...
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Catch my reading tonight (Thursday) at Peteβs Candy Store @petesreading.bsky.social 7:30pm. Iβm debating reading a scene from Brooklyn Kills Me thatβs set at Peteβs.
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Happy Valentineβs Day from Medium Cool! Read our new column by PolyHannah. www.themediumcool.com/p/involuntar...
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One week from tonight! Come bask in some true mid-winter brilliance as Sarah Chihaya, Erin Crosby Eckstine, @emilyschultz.bsky.social , & Tyler Wetherall grace the Pete's stage! With your trusty hosts @temim.bsky.social & @briangresko.bsky.social , & books for sale via @greenlightbklyn.bsky.social
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Is sex back at the movies? We revisit the first NC-17 film here, and itβs about writers!
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Today on Medium Cool our columnist Dear PolyHannah answers... Why is introducing your new thing to your friends so hard?
Read it here: www.themediumcool.com/p/a-separate...
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HOW TO ADAPT YOUR NOVEL
Thereβs no writing assignment more difficult than adapting a novel into a screenplay.
Thereβs no writing assignment more difficult than adapting a novel into a screenplay. Listen to our new podcast βHow to Adapt Your Novelβ: www.themediumcool.com/p/how-to-ada...
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CHRISTMAS BLOODY CHRISTMAS
The Matador is the best Christmas movie you've never seen
We debate whether The Matador is the perfect Christmas movie and who has the weirdest holiday memories. (Brian won.)
www.themediumcool.com/p/christmas-...
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Here's a Starter Pack of independent and small-press publishers. I'll add to it as more of those publishers join these blue skies. If YOU would like to have your company added, LMK.
go.bsky.app/PDDBYLp
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CRUSHING IT
A partnerβs new crush can be exciting but is it time for a shared calendar yet?
What to do when your partner has a crush⦠Read the new column on Medium Cool!
www.themediumcool.com/p/crushing-it
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Lots of First Day Moving Into the Dorm energy here at Bluesky. Some nervous looks, some excitement. No one quite sure what to do.
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Got a killer writeup from the San Francisco Book Review!
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WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT MORVERN CALLAR
How Emilyβs two decade grudge against Lynne Ramsayβs breakout film ended
In honor of "Holy Shit Lynne Ramsay Has a New Movie" day, here's a story of cinematic redemption with @emilyschultz.bsky.social
www.themediumcool.com/p/we-need-to...
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HOW IT WERKS
Ep 1: What do lit agents, film agents, managers, and entertainment lawyers do?
We've turnin' our trauma into knowledge base with this new podcast about the writing and creative biz.
www.themediumcool.com/p/how-it-werks
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I read and write and listen to music. A lot. Mostly in Brooklyn. Largehearted Boy is my website.
New York City-based literary agency, representing books that matter since 1977.
Dan Balestrero's voiceover artists have worked for CBS, ABC, NBC, the WB, FOX, Dream- Works, Paramount, Disney, Tribune Broadcasting, Direct TV as well as virtually all the other major advertising agencies and Motion Picture Studios. Masteringvoiceover.com
Cormorant books is a Canadian independent book publisher of fiction and nonfiction. Weβve been publishing diverse Canadian voices since 1986.
Wrote YOU OR SOMEONE YOU LOVE (Atria Books, 2023). Writing other stuff. Public library worker. Abortion clinic angel, abortion fund board. Queer. t1d. Pure of heart, dumb of ass.
Author. Podcast host of Stardust and Courage. Intuitive coach for creative people.
Book designer, editor/publisher of Trnsfr Books, author of poetry collections Fake Moon and Fever Tract (forthcoming).
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Online venue for long work in poetry, prose, translation and, well, everything else. Co-Editors in Chief: Derek Mong & Anne Fisher. Managing Editor: Carson Wirtz. Web Guru: Grayson Adams. Terrestrial home: West Lafayette, Indiana. www.atlengthmag.com
Poet and CWRT instructor, editor, community arts. Author of 2 books and some chapbooks; book 3 forthcoming from Gaspereau 2026. Lots of πish tattoos. On Sinixt Territory in BC. www.leesadean.ca
Book person β read them, bind them, fix them, write them. I like type. Author of Conflict (2012) and Charm (2016) & Toxemia (poetic non-fiction) from Book*hug (fall 2024). President of CBBAG. Former co-organizer of the Ottawa Promise Walk for Preeclampsia.
Writer, manatee enthusiast, keeper of the Great Potato
Poet with 3 chapbooks and one full-length book. Next full-length forthcoming in 2026 with Palimpsest Press. Chapbook editor at Anstruther Press. Learning Specialist & Instructional Designer at Western University. Father of two.
(she/her) co-editor of anthologies, including FIT FOR THE GODS and SWORD STONE TABLE | citizen reader | publishing auntie | jennirl.com
Bklyn based artist/ photographer/activist. Defending democracy with my camera since Occupy Wall Street π LGBTQIA, BIPOC and Womenβs Rights. My Body, My Choice.
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Filmmaker and Composer
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Indie bookstore/bar/vegan restaurant in Columbus, OH. π΄
Independent publisher of exceedingly good books. Founded in 1917. We canβt go on, weβll go on.
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