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Book Talk for BookTok

Workshop Jac's Book With Savannah Gilbo

Book Talk for BookTok

Cloud10

Arts, Books

4.8642 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2024

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode, developmental editor Savannah helps Jac with her query letter, only for things to take a big turn. Find Savannah on her Instagram @savannah.gilb or her website https://www.savannahgilbo.com/ Sponsor: BetterHelp.com/BOOKTOK - to get 10% off your first month of therapy  Lumedeodorant.com and use code BOOKTALK for 15% off  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, I'm A.

0:02.1

And I'm Jay.

0:02.9

Welcome to Moxicated, a space for healing, connection, and life beyond booze.

0:07.2

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0:12.3

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0:15.9

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0:17.3

So join us every Monday and Thursday for laps, tears, and your besties a.F. Now go listen to Moxicated, wherever you get your way. So join us every Monday and Thursday for laps, tears, and your best use a.F.

0:21.7

Now go listen to Moxicated wherever you get your podcasts.

0:36.8

Welcome to Book Talk for Book Talk, a literary podcast where we deep dive into the writings of your favorite novels, or at least this week, my writing.

0:44.3

Woo-hoo!

0:44.8

I'm excited to welcome back Savannah Gilbo, developmental editor and podcaster.

0:50.5

We had you on the podcast before, and we teased out that you would help me with my query letter

0:56.2

and here we are querying it up and you read the first chapter and we got a lot to talk about yeah we got

1:02.4

a lot to talk about i'm so excited this is something that i do with writers all the time so um i'm very

1:08.2

excited to help you figure out what we can you know what's working what working, what's not working and what we can what we can change.

1:14.0

Well, last time you broke my brain because you were the one you were the one who was like, this is women's fiction.

1:18.6

And I was like, gosh.

1:20.2

Is it?

1:21.0

Darn it.

1:21.5

And so I went back and rewrote a lot of things in there.

1:26.8

And it makes a lot more sense.

1:29.6

I had a lot more fun writing it because I wasn't trying to be something.

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