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And in that, I am free.

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Build your author platform.

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I sat down with the author.

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Think about the kind of life you want to have and what kind of writing career would fit into that without having to win the writing career lottery.

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Q: What if I hate marketing? A: That’s ok. I hate marketing also.

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As a first-time novelist, the internet was my go-to guide to the mysterious world of publishing. Yet the Internet only led me so far.

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Although she calls it ‘a violist’s Book of Job,’ founding and leading the Momenta Quartet is a longtime labor of love for Stephanie Griffin, as she tells us in Music for Writers.

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Since 2009, New York Public Radio’s Q2 Music has been giving crucial airtime to living composers on its free 24/7 Internet stream. Who orchestrates all this gorgeous sound? Alex Ambrose.

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The middleman can be an agent, a teacher, a mentor, a boss, a company, a parent, a standardized test, a whoever. Every day there is a new middleman trying to put their hands on your private parts and squeeze until you give them their imaginary cut on your art, on your soul, on your hard work.

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Drawing on her childhood on a kibbutz—fears of violence and the grace of music—cellist Maya Beiser embarks on personal exploration, ‘TranceClassical.’