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Courtney Maum and Matthew Salesses Have Some Craft Advice for You By Rachel Krantz | Jan 07, 2021
Every so often, a book comes along that feels like an act of charity directed straight at the heart. As a debut author awaiting the publication of my first book,
Anything But Monogamy (Harmony), for me, there were two recent books about the craft of writing that felt that way, and both were published by Catapult: Courtney Maum’s funny and honest guide
(January 2021).
Maum’s guide offers debut and aspiring authors the kind of blunt truths that even an agent or editor might be hesitant to disclose. To achieve this level of candor, Maum interviewed many insiders anonymously while employing a funny and practical tone. Salesses’s book, like Maum’s, should be considered required reading for any writer or editor. Its first part is an extremely helpful dissection of implicit biases in traditional Western “rules” of craft and structure; its second half i