KJ Micciche

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(The following is an excerpt from my newsletter, The Pub Crawl , which comes straight to your inbox every Monday morning! It's completely...

Not long ago, on a random Saturday afternoon, I was sitting at the kitchen table with my husband, Chris, absent-mindedly working on...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

“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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The publishing industry doesn’t come with a handbook. Yes, you can purchase just about anything written by Jane Friedman and generally...

Spirit of full disclosure: I started this blog in an attempt to pay it forward to other newbie authors. Coming onto the literary scene...