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Season 1: Publishing Books

16 episodes

  • Inside Memoir

    with Joselin Linder

    May 27, 2020

    Wed | 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ET

    Featuring agent J.L. Stermer and Joselin Linder, author of the memoir The Family Gene

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  • Inside Horror

    with Sarah Langan

    June 3, 2020

    Wed | 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ET

    Featuring agent Alec Shane and Sarah Langan, author of the horror novels The Keeper, The Missing, and Audrey's Door

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  • Inside Literary Fiction

    June 10, 2020

    Wed | 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ET

    Featuring agent Kerry D’Agostino and Nancy Wayson Dinan, author of Things You Would Know If You Grew Up Around Here

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  • Inside Young Adult Fiction

    with Lev AC Rosen

    June 17, 2020

    Wed | 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ET

    Featuring agent Quressa Robinson and Lev Rosen, author of Jack Of Hearts (And Other Parts), Camp.

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  • Inside Middle Grade Fiction

    with Matthew Cody

    June 24, 2020

    Wed | 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ET

    Featuring agent Jim McCarthy and Matthew Cody, author of the Secrets Of The Pied Piper series.

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  • Inside Diversity in Publishing

    with Kirsten Imani Kasai

    June 25, 2020

    Thu | 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ET

    Moderated by Rosalie Morales Kearns, founder of Shade Mountain Press. Featuring agent Samantha Fabien and Kirsten Imani Kasai, author of The House Of Erzulie and Ice Song

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  • Inside Science Fiction & Fantasy

    with Jennifer Marie Brisset

    July 1, 2020

    Wed | 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ET

    Featuring agent DongWon Song and Jennifer Brissett, author of Elysium and the forthcoming book Destroyer of Light

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  • Inside Nonfiction

    with Jennifer Keishin Armstrong

    July 8, 2020

    Wed | 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ET

    Featuring agent Noah Ballard and Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, author of the New York Times bestseller Seinfeldia

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  • Inside Mystery/Thriller

    July 15, 2020

    Wed | 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ET

    Featuring agent Sharon Pelletier and Megan Collins, author of The Winter Sister and Behind The Red Door

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  • Inside Graphic Novels

    July 22, 2020

    Wed | 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ET

    Featuring agent Charlie Olsen and Rosemary Valero-O’Connell, cartoonist/illustrator who’s worked on such projects as Steven Universe and Gotham Academy

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  • Inside Commercial Fiction

    July 29, 2020

    Wed | 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ET

    Featuring agent Jenny Bent and Roselle Lim, author of Natalie Tan's Book Of Luck And Fortune and Vanessa Yu's Magical Paris Tea Shop

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  • Inside Picture Books

    August 5, 2020

    Wed | 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ET

    featuring agent Erica Rand Silverman and Susan Verde, New York Times bestselling author of I Am Love: A Book Of Compassion and I Am Human: A Book Of Empathy

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  • Inside Query Letters

    August 12, 2020

    Wed | 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ET

    featuring agents Noah Ballard and JL Stermer

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  • Inside Children’s Fantasy

    August 19, 2020

    Wed | 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ET

    featuring agent Suzie Townsend and Makiia Lucier, author of Song of the Abyss and Isle of Blood and Stone

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  • Inside Historical Fiction

    August 26, 2020

    Wed | 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ET

    featuring agent Jeff Kleinman and Lara Prescott, New York Times bestselling author of The Secrets We Kept

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  • Inside Debut Fiction

    with Zaina Arafat

    September 2, 2020

    Wed | 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ET

    featuring agent Alexa Stark and Zaina Arafat, author of You Exist Too Much

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