Rachael Herron (RH Herron)'s Blog

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Please enjoy this chat between Rachael Herron and Sacha Black (of The Rebel Author Podcast). Irreverent, cheeky, business-focused and always honest, you’re going to love this. 

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In this special bonus episode, Rachael talks about how to write a blurb that hooks a reader, how to write a twist that shocks, how to trust your gut, and when to consider foreign translations! This episode supported by Rachael’s patrons! THANK YOU! 

Rachael can be YOUR mini-coach, and she’ll answer all your questions on the show for just $5/month! http://patreon.com/rachael 

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The page-turning first installment in an epic fantasy trilogy, HER MAJESTY’S ROYAL COVEN follows a group of childhood friends who are also witches—and members of a covert government department protecting the world from supernatural forces. Juno Dawson is a bestselling novelist, screenwriter, and journalist. Juno’s books include the global bestsellers, This Book is Gay and Clean. She also writes for television and has multiple shows in development both in the UK and US. An occasional actress and model, Juno appeared on HBO’s I May Destroy You. This is her adult debut.

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Alana Quintana Albertson has written thirty romance novels, rescued five-hundred death-row shelter dogs, and danced one thousand rumbas. She lives with her husband in sunny San Diego with her two sons and too many pets. Most days, she can be found writing her next heart book in a beachfront café while sipping an oat-milk Mexican mocha or gardening with her children in their backyard orchard and snacking on a juicy blood orange. RAMÓN AND JULIETA is her most recent release. 

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Tara T. Green (she/her) is professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies at the University of North Carolina where she teaches literature and gender studies courses. She is the author of Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson (Bloomsbury 2022), See Me Naked: Black Women Defining Pleasure During the Interwar Era (Rutgers UP, 2022), Reimagining the Middle Passage: Black Resistance in Literature, Television, and Song, (Ohio State UP, 2018) A Fatherless Child: Autobiographical Perspectives of African American Men (University of Missouri Press, 2009). For more information, see drtaratgreen.com.

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Please enjoy the very first chat that Rachael Herron and Sacha Black (of The Rebel Author Podcast) have together. Irreverent, cheeky, and always honest, you’re going to love this. 

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Sarah McCraw Crow is the author of the novel The Wrong Kind of Woman (Mira/HarperCollins). Her short fiction has run in Calyx, Crab Orchard Review, Good Housekeeping, and Stanford Alumni Magazine, and she’s a regular book reviewer for BookPage. She is a graduate of Dartmouth College, Stanford University, and Vermont College of Fine Arts (MFA), and she lives with her family on an old farm in New Hampshire.

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In this episode, Rachael talks about setting boundaries in order to be a kinder writer to ourselves, and then she and Nigel talk about indie vs trad publishing, masterminds, and how to choose what to write next! 

Nigel Bartlett is a freelance writer and editor who has worked for many of the best-known magazines in Australia. He lives in the inner-Sydney suburb of Redfern. Talking about King of the Road’s main character, David Kingsgrove, he says, ‘In many ways David is who I’d like to be — physically fit, a loving uncle and a good friend, although he does have flaws. He doubts himself and lacks confidence, but he discovers his strength by being pushed to his most extreme limits.’

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I might use this space to write about things I want to say on Twitter. (I resent how many years I spent there using up my life-chronicling writer’s brain, and how impossible it is to read my old archive. I’ve been enjoying going through old journals to visit with my younger self, and when I got on Twitter, bam. The journaling stopped. Grr.)

So: I will tell you this. I’ve been sick for a full week with bronchitis, but today I’m finally feeling like wearing clothes and sitting at the desk.

I waited until the fever went away (SMART) to cut my bangs based on a TikTok tutorial and I do not hate the results.

They’ll win no awards, but I guess I’ll keep the fringe a little longer. I was at that terrible point where you need a trim (free at my hair stylist, but then I have to GO there) or grow them out, and today, I chose violence.

Speaking of TikTok, I’ve been enjoying being there. HERE I am. I’m usually talking about writing.

The Only Writing Hack You Need:

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