You Have to Believe You're Exceptional

About this episode

The episode features a discussion on success, energy preservation, honesty in publishing, and advice for new artists, along with a promotion for Amie's upcoming book.

Join us for a rambling discussion that starts with us assessing how successful we feel, goes on to a long digression about preserving energy for hard times, talks about honesty in the publishing industry, and finished with Amie's message to artists just starting out. Pre-order To Kill a Queen , Amie's book about a non-binary detective in Elizabethan London who has the hots for their bartender. If you're outside the US, your only choice is to get it shipped to you from Amazon :( But we are so grateful if you do! If you're in the US, it would be a huge help to us if you pre-saved the audiobook on Spotify (even if you don't plan on listening to it there!).

People in this episode

Hosts: Amie McNee, James Winestock

Topics covered

• success
• energy preservation
• honesty in publishing
• advice for artists
• book promotion

Keywords

• success
• publishing
• artists
• To Kill a Queen
• Elizabethan London
• non-binary
• audiobook
• Spotify

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Amazon, Spotify

Books & works: To Kill a Queen

Places: Elizabethan London

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