Brendan O'Meara

Wow, this is so kind! Thank you, Tracy!

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I don't need to tell you that this was a toe-tappin' good time.

Pod experienced its 500th episode. Had to reach out to a hero of mine.

Great chat with @maggiemertens.bsky.social about #book #writing and her wonderful debut work of historical narrative nonfiction Better Faster Farther. @algonquinbooks.bsky.social

Dig it wherever you get your pods!

Looking for a little free literary help? Support for a new agent pitch? Happy to offer an explanation and sample of the pitch letter that earned me the incredible good luck of signing with my current agent, Amy Bishop-Wycisk. 💜 #writingcommunity #booksky

So You Broke Up with Your Agent ... Now What? Tracy Slater shares her agent pitch letter that earned her representation for "Together in Manzanar."

Hey, Issue 6 of Pitch Club (six months of Pitch Club?!). It's @tracyslater.bsky.social and her query to a literary agent that earned representation for Together in Manzanar.

Dig it.

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Author @jeffpearlman.bsky.social stopped by ye ol' CNF Pod to talk about his new book "Only God Can Judge Me: The Many Lives of Tupac Shakur." In this clip, Jeff talks about book promotion.

Listen wherever you dig your pods, friend.

Rate and review.

Someone didn't skip leg day.

Pod coming this Friday with @provenself.bsky.social, the one, the only, Peter Rubin!

Nick Davidson's Atavist Pitch for "The Balloon That Fell From the Sky" In the first Pitch Club, Nick Davidson breaks down his pitch for The Atavist Magazine.

Issue 1 of Pitch Club, the one that started it all, the phenomenon sweeping across the nation! Proof that the internet can, in fact, break.

Oooooo, my ego could use a good gush today :)

Thanks to the pair of you CNFin' patrons!

Marc Maron on the End of His Landmark Podcast

I'm admittedly sad Marc sunsetted WTF. I listened to the final episode already. His episode from Thursday was the real final episode. Today seemed like a hidden bonus track.

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Justin Heckert: 'This one hurt' Getting, oh, so, close ...

It's a different kind of clubbing!

I hope you'll join us!

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#freelance #querying #writing #journalism #pitching

So great! And I wasn't even thinking of the baseball playoffs now ... that was just coincidence!

BTW, I'm gonna be hanging with Kim Cross this weekend. I'm in Idaho for some Front Runnner stuff.

Oh, wow, thanks for sharing Justin's Pitch Club, Mark!

Episode 492: The Daniel Littlewood Takeover Extravaganza!

My apologies.

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An honor and a delight to be a guest on one of the podcasts I listened to every single week while I was working on the book. Thx @brendanomeara.bsky.social of the Creative Nonfiction Podcast! brendanomeara.com/episode-491-... #writingcommunity 📚💙

Disney+ customer service line, for those getting blocked online: (888) 905-7888

I had about a 2 minute wait, and then was helped very cordially in canceling my subscription

Hey, ya heard? I'm going to Boise soon, driving across the vast expanse of eastern Oregon to throw Front Runners at your face.

It's free, but ya getta dizcount if you RSVP and buy a ticket, which includes a signed and stamped book and a stern talkin' to.

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Hey, all right! Thanks for sharing, Andrew! It is a great story!

For the @atavist.com Robert Weintraub came by to talk about "American Hindenburg." Great talk!

How to Wrangle the Idea with Cassidy Randall Cassidy Randall takes us to her Atavist Magazine pitch that earned her a nod in Year's Best Sports Writing 2023.

@cassidyrandall.bsky.social stopped by Pitch Club HQ to talk about her @atavist.com pitch for her story "Alone at the Edge of the World," a story was anthologized in Year's Best Sports Writing 2023.

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Yep!! QB1!

It is science!

Author as QB1 Books by Lisa Loving, Jeff Pearlman, Seth Wickersham, and Tim Queeney, and a lot more junk.

September rager just went out: Author as QB1.

Very nice of the author @timqueeney.bsky.social to write this kind and insightful review of "The Front Runner."

He's got a really cool book out called "Rope," and I'm eager AF to read it and speak with him about it.

timqueeney.com/more-than-ju...

62.1. Good Talk #13: Brendan O'Meara "I think that's why Oregonians gravitated toward [Prefontaine]. There was a working-class pugilistic ethic to him. He was homegrown."

Whereby @leahsottile.bsky.social talks to me about lots of great stuff ... and bidets.

I've taken, as part of my promoting people's appearances on the podcast, to including short, 5-star reviews on Amazon/ Goodreads. I use the same one for each.

Point being, these things matter, especially for little no-names like me.

If you like someone's work, go that little extra mile for them.

Oh, man, I was at Elliott Bay Books at the end of July for a book signing! I'm grateful for you spreading the word. That's how this book will succeed: hand to hand.