Things I'm Thankful For
Not long ago, on a random Saturday afternoon, I was sitting at the kitchen table with my husband, Chris, absent-mindedly working on...
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kjmicciche
Oct 122 min read
Free Book!
I’m really excited, because I’m on the brink of being ready to launch my newsletter. It’s something I’ve been meaning to do for a long...
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kjmicciche
Aug 307 min read
The Fall
I’m writing this in the hotel lobby of a Marriott in northern Massachusetts, on my way to Portland, Maine for one of my last events of...
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kjmicciche
Jul 303 min read
Why We Need an Author University
The purpose of this blog has always been to help other writers by giving them insights that I wish I had when I was trying to get into...
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kjmicciche
Jun 284 min read
On The Road Again
Today’s blog post comes to you from a hotel room in Allentown, PA. I’m about 300 miles from my summer home and about 200 miles to my...
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kjmicciche
May 276 min read
Say Yes to Everything
I’m writing this from my bed, where I’ve been battling an awful cold for the past week or so. Naturally, I started feeling sick just...
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kjmicciche
Apr 305 min read
The Long Con
Sometimes I write to stay accountable. To you, reader? Yes. But also to me. I promised myself I would write one blog post a month. We’re...
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kjmicciche
Mar 265 min read
Beating the Odds as a Butterfly
Nobody starts out as an author. We all begin as writers - just normal people with stories to tell. So, we write them down. In a notebook....
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kjmicciche
Feb 186 min read
Dress For The Job You Want
I can’t remember the first time someone told me how important it is to dress for the job you want, not the job you have – but it was...
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kjmicciche
Jan 284 min read
Grieving Through Art
Before I became an author, I wondered so much at how people did it. How do you come up with a 300+ page story about characters that...
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kjmicciche
Dec 19, 20233 min read
An Author Walks Into a Book Club...
“Not for my book,” I promised Laura, the girl in charge of the group. “Just to, you know, be in a book club.” Because for all the reading...
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kjmicciche
Nov 22, 20233 min read
Thanksgiving Reflections
It’s Thanksgiving Eve, and I’m sitting at my desk in my office. This time last year, I was celebrating the fact that I had crushed my...
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kjmicciche
Oct 6, 20238 min read
Making It to the Show
I’m writing this from Minneapolis, the day after Game 2 of the 2023 MLB Wild Card Series between the Toronto Blue Jays and the Minnesota...
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kjmicciche
Aug 26, 20234 min read
When Life Imitates Art
Do you ever have one of those moments where you feel like you’re living inside a story? Well. It’s one thing if that happens in normal...
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kjmicciche
Jun 18, 20238 min read
Loaded Questions
I recently had dinner with some friends, and the topic of my book came up. This is a thing now – the book enters conversations in much...
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kjmicciche
May 2, 20238 min read
The Event Lament: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly about DIY Book Tours
The publishing industry doesn’t come with a handbook. Yes, you can purchase just about anything written by Jane Friedman and generally...
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kjmicciche
Apr 5, 20237 min read
Going Postal: Is It Just Me?
Spirit of full disclosure: I started this blog in an attempt to pay it forward to other newbie authors. Coming onto the literary scene...
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kjmicciche
Mar 1, 20237 min read
Why Every Debut Author Needs a Launch Team
This month’s blog post is a love letter to a group of people who I didn’t realize I needed as much as I do: my launch team. Not to be...
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kjmicciche
Feb 8, 20237 min read
The Shart Heard 'Round the World: On Subjectivity, Reviews, and Emotional Roller Coasters
This past month has been a whirlwind of activity for me. Sometimes, I look back on my blog posts from a year ago and I marvel at how...
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kjmicciche
Jan 9, 20235 min read
Forward Motion
2023. I’m having a tough time remembering to put that number on things: the checks I write (because yes, I am a dinosaur who still pays...
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