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Well Published! Mega-bestselling Christina Baker Kline on Bad Editors, Hooking Readers, and Challenging Yourself as a Writer

A recording from Aimee Liu's live series on the art and business of getting... well published!

Thank you Human Potential & Resilience, Sheri Handel, Julie Neches, Homi Hormasji, Laurie MacIntosh, and many others for tuning into Well Published, Live! with Christina Baker Kline .

Christina is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of ten novels, including Orphan Train and The Exiles, and she currently serves as vice president of the Authors Guild. Her new novel The Foursome will launch on May 12!

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We talked about everything from the invaluable advice she got by confronting her worst editor, to the astronomical success of her surprise bestseller Orphan Train, to the challenge of writing 19th-century sex scenes about Siamese twins in The Foursome! And, of course, we talked about the many reasons every writer on the planet who is serious about having a writing career must join the Authors Guild.

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Takeaways from Christina Baker Kline

On Career Resilience and Surviving Difficult Stretches

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