The Writer’s Book of Doubt

The Writer’s Book of Doubt funded on Kickstarter earlier this month! It’s a book of essays and illustrations providing hope and inspiration for writers.

It will be illustrated by Kathleen Jennings and includes essays from a range of writers:

Aliette de Bodard – My Novel Writing Process, AKA Writing With Baby

Delilah S. Dawson – No Word is Ever Wasted

Kate Dylan – Slow and Steady Wins the Race

Malon Edwards – I’m a Big Black Man Who Writes Science Fiction

Meg Elison – Revenge is a Hundred Dresses

Kate Elliott – The Space You Make For Your Art

Kameron Hurley – 10 Things I Learned From Failure

Matthew Kressel – Overcoming Self-Doubt as a Writer

R. F. Kuang – The Racial Rubber Stamp

Fonda Lee – The Great Green Monster

Rose Lemberg – Don’t Self-Reject

Likhain – Seeing Yourself in Stories

Jeannette Ng – Cultural Appropriation for the Worried Writer

A. Merc Rustad – The Necessity of Hope

Mary Swangin – El Mayarah – Stronger Together

Bogi Takács – How (Not) to Include Trans People as Background Characters

E. Catherine Tobler – Writing, Mostly

Martha Wells – The Ups and Downs of a Long Career

Isabel Yap – Whenever I’m in an Extended Period of Not-Writing I am Always Deeply, Deeply Mystified About How the Hell to Start Again

It also includes an illustrated Map of Submissionland.

If you missed out on the Kickstarter, the book will be available from online retailers in ebook and paperback in the middle of 2019.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/169140551/the-writers-book-of-doubt