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February 14, 2023 45 mins

In today's episode, Kat highlights the life and work of Jewish-Canadian poet, A.M. Klein in literary history, discusses how powerful articulating universal thoughts and feelings in poetry, memoirs, and fiction can be, and then chats with Ukrainian-American author and poet, Tetyana Denford about:

  • How her writing journey began
  • Imposter syndrome
  • Digging for stories in your own family tree
  • Titles
  • The business of being an author
  • Self-publishing and working with Bookouture
  • Her next novel
  • “Conversation books”
  • Self-publishing courses
  • The powerful impact of poetry, flash fiction, and music

Tetyana's socials: Websites: tetyanadenford.com and thecraftandbusinessofbooks.com Instagram: @tetyanawrites Twitter: TetyanaWrites and YouTube.

Kat is on Twitter @kfoxx_writes @_badasswriters @FoxxEditorial and @moodpitchers. On IG, she's @kathleenfoxxwrites @badasswriters_podcast @FoxxEditorial and @moodpitchers. Her websites and lots of other things are on linktr.ee.

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Music: Bathtime Funk by All Good Folks (uppbeats.io), Head Up by Sixteen Wheelers, From Stardust and Across Land and Sea, both by Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen, and Fugacious by Gavin Luke (epidemicsound.com).

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