Coming Soon: RTA Episode 13 + Free Giveaway!
See you Thursday
Greetings and salutations.
Join us Thursday (5/1) at 1:00 PM ET/10:00 AM PT for our thirteenth episode of Read The Acknowledgments! Randy Winston welcomes Farrar, Straus and Giroux SVP and Editor-in-Chief Jenna Johnson and Avid Reader Press VP and Editorial Director Lauren Wein. Register for free here!
Giveaway
Participate in our new tradition: the RTA Giveaway. One fiction writer, who participates in our RTA prompt giveaway, will be chosen at random to receive 1 free month of hosting + 1 free evaluation for their unpublished, novel-length manuscript. All you have to do is be subscribed to this Substack and respond to a prompt. We are providing the prompt now. The recipient will be chosen at random on Thursday. Randy will announce the recipient’s name live at the end of each episode.
Today’s prompt: Name a book you’ve read more than once or desire to re-read at some point in the future.
Answer in the comments of this post.
Please note: Giveaway recipients must create a free profile on The Black List website to activate the 1 free month of hosting + the 1 free evaluation.
Thank you!
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A pillar of our Fiction educational resources, Read The Acknowledgements is a live visual podcast designed for book and writing professionals to share their industry experiences and help give writers a clear picture of the ecosystem that is publishing.
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Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel. As someone who writes historical fiction, her Cromwell trilogy is the 21st century’s North Star.
The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd. I've just begun my second reading of her extraordinary story. Sue Monk Kidd is a master storyteller. I held my breath when I turned the book over and read the first line on the back cover: "I am Ana. I was the wife of Jesus ben Joseph of Nazareth." Brilliant.