Recording of Craft Lecture: "Demystifying the Publishing Process"

December 2, 2025

Dec 4 • Matt Bell

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November 2025

Paid Subscriber Benefit: Live Craft Lecture on Tuesday, 12/2!

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Nov 29 • Matt Bell

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#57: Worldbuilding with Neologisms and "Box-Words"

China Miéville, Ursula K. Le Guin, Samuel Delany

Nov 18 • Matt Bell

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October 2025

#56: "How to Write a Novel with the Kitchen Sink Thrown In" by Amber Sparks, author of HAPPY PEOPLE DON'T LIVE HERE

Amber Sparks

Oct 14 • Matt Bell

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September 2025

#55: Using Cue Words to Structure Better Dialogue

Denis Johnson, Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert McKee

Sep 16 • Matt Bell

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EARLY ACCESS: Sign up now for my "Revision, Rewriting, and Re-Visioning" Writing Retreat in Zakynthos, Greece!

June 6-13, 2026!

Sep 11 • Matt Bell

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Recording of Craft Lecture: "Writing Better Scenes"

September 9, 2025

Sep 11 • Matt Bell

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Paid Subscriber Benefit: Live Craft Lecture Today!

September 9, 7pm ET

Sep 9 • Matt Bell

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August 2025

Paid Subscriber Benefit: Choose the September Craft Lecture!

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Aug 20 • Matt Bell

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#54: Putting Your Chapter Titles to Work

Karen Russell, Brian Evenson, Danya Kukafka, Chuck Palahniuk, Diane Williams

Aug 17 • Matt Bell

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July 2025

#53: Traveling for Research: A Field Report

Jack Hitt, Andrew McCarthy, The Codex Calixtinus, Tom Bissell, John Kelly, James Salter

Jul 17 • Matt Bell

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June 2025

#52: How I Research a Novel, in the Stacks and in the World

Andrea Barrett, Allison Amend, Lauren Groff, Will Chancellor

Jun 11 • Matt Bell

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