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Ilana Masad, Author of “All My Mother’s Lovers,” on Querying Agents, Organizing Time and Finding Fulfillment

"A lot of my paid work is creatively fulfilling at the moment because I love reviewing books, and find criticism deeply satisfying. However, for years I wrote listicles, which paid okay but were largely very dull and basically copywriting work."

by | March 29, 2022

On January 5, 2022, Study Hall held an AMA with Ilana Masad about publishing, book reviews, and the daily toils of being a professional writer. Ilana is a writer of fiction, nonfiction, and criticism. She is a doctoral student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the author of the novel All My Mother’s Lovers.   […]

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