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Pipeline Artists
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A home for creatives. ✍️🎥📖 Est. 2021. 🦊 Fiercely independent. 🏴‍☠️
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"In other words, you don’t know how hard something is, so you just plunge in, head-first, trusting you’ll figure it out."

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The Doubt of Adaptation
The first pass was—traumatic. I was re-reading every single word of my novel, dissecting where I could have written it better, second-guessing so many things. I had to stop that critic in my head…
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November 11, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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"During the making of this film, Ben Shetrit traveled around Israel, Palestine, and the world, following these artists. He found himself in areas of Palestine where most Jews wouldn't go."

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Through Music, Israelis and Palestinians Fight for Equality
"Peace is not going to rain on us. Peace is something we have to make. We have to build it. It's going to take sacrifice."
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November 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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"It quickly became apparent that the expectations of what the role of midlist author entails involves more than committing to getting 1,000 words down each day."

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Writers Shouldn’t Have to Sell Our Souls
Writer’s lives are not clickbait, and they are not a work of fiction to be dramatized for effect.
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November 10, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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New interviews with authors, publishing industry, and more.

"The Story Will Save You" - a Pipeline Artists original podcast.

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The Story Will Save You
The world of writing and publishing, from the POV of emerging authors and the brave souls on the front lines.
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November 9, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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A Pipeline Artists classic ...

Read "a sonnet" by author and Pushcart Prize nominee Tara Stringfellow (Memphis):

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*original art created for Pipeline Artists by Graham Sisk
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last summer when you called ...
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November 9, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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The #1 (don't factcheck that) podcast in the arts...

Catch up on Reckless Creatives, hosted by Jeanne Bowerman and Sadie Dean:

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Reckless Creatives Podcast
Reckless Creatives is the Pipeline Artists original podcast about nothing and everything.
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November 8, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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"Co-creator of DC’s comic series “Primer,” writer of many animated TV shows, man with a difficult last name to pronounce just right, perfect beard … Tom Krajewski has it all."

From the audio archives...

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November 8, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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"Since the market is always in flux, depending on who wants what, it doesn’t make sense for creatives to work like it’s a 9-5."

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Hamilton Needed a Weekend
How are you going to make something that’s going to change the world when you’re too busy to experience the world you’re trying to change?
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November 7, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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"Like it or not (and I definitely do not), Hollywood is all about risk-mitigation."

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Know Thy Enemy
... it would be so nice if we as writers didn’t have to fight so hard to get our projects made. But as Sun Tzu might remind us, wishing your enemy wouldn’t resist isn’t a strategy.
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November 7, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Struggling to market your book? We've got your back.

TODAY! A new Symposium by Leila Siddiqui, who has spent 10 yrs working in marketing in two of the Big 5 publishers.

Still time to sign up!

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November 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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New Event Wed!!

Leila Siddiqui has spent ten years working in marketing in two of the Big 5 publishers. She's leading our session on the ins and outs of marketing your book.

Indie authors and trad authors will learn a ton!

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November 4, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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"You feel as if you’re in a rip current, paddling and paddling, yet getting farther from your goals." - @jeannevb.bsky.social

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But for a Time
You feel as if you’re in a rip current, paddling and paddling, yet getting farther from your goals.
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October 23, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Learn about what marketers do at acquisitions, after the book is acquired, how they partner with the sales team to position the book to retailers, and how they bring the book the audiences.

NEW Symposium for #authors!

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October 20, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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"Someone asked me this week for the latest and greatest, “right,” right now, new ideas in book marketing." - Sharon Woodhouse

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The Problem with Seeking the “Right Ideas” for Book Marketing
Someone asked me this week for the latest and greatest, “right,” right now, new ideas in book marketing.
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October 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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"It might be the most clichéd of statements, but 'if it’s not on the page, it’s not on the stage.'" - @jeffyorkwriter.bsky.social

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The Lessons in Best Screenplays
It might be the most clichéd of statements, but “if it’s not on the page, it’s not on the stage.”
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October 17, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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"Horror has long been one of the most evergreen genres, both as a crowd-pleaser and as a way for emerging writers to cut their teeth in the entertainment and publishing industries." - @Hilaryvh.bsky.social

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Booktober Reads for Horror Writers
... horror has long been one of the most evergreen genres, both as a crowd-pleaser and as a way for emerging writers to cut their teeth in the entertainment and publishing industries.
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October 15, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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"I was a Hollywood assistant for almost ten years ... let’s go ahead and get the basic stuff out of the way." - Spike Scarberry

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The All-Purpose Guide to Hollywood Assistant-ing
I was a Hollywood assistant for almost ten years ... let’s go ahead and get the basic stuff out of the way.
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October 14, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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"Your characters have to overcome their internal demons—and you have to stop protecting them." - @jeannevb.bsky.social

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Character Therapy—Nowhere to Hide
Your characters have to overcome their internal demons—and you have to stop protecting them.
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October 13, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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New author event on Wednesday!

IP expert Lauren Emerson breaks down what rights and obligations you’re taking on, how to spot risks, what key terms really mean, and how to protect yourself when the other side doesn’t deliver.

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October 12, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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"... when I’d been looking for permission to create with maximalist zeal, I hadn’t been asking, “Is it possible to create in all these genres?” but 'Will people take me seriously?'" - Kami Bratten

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More is More: Why I'm Not Staying in My Creative Lane
... when I’d been looking for permission to create with maximalist zeal, I hadn’t been asking, “Is it possible to create in all these genres?” but “Will people take me seriously?”
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October 9, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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New Symposium event Wed w/ @amylbernstein.bsky.social!

Get armed with a variety of techniques to help you use first-person effectively in a variety of genres and to recognize several pitfalls before you get too far along.

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October 5, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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NEW @recklesscr8tive.bsky.social EPISODE!

Sadie Dean & @jeannevb.bsky.social chat with the dynamic duo, Reagan Yorke & Jillian Smith, co-founders S&Q Films.

Creatives with a little sprinkle of delusion.

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October 3, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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"Excavate your past and present for the emotional states you once felt, and apply those emotions to your characters." - Nadia Osman

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'Weapons'-izing Your Experiences for Screenwriting
Excavate your past and present for the emotional states you once felt, and apply those emotions to your characters.
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October 3, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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"As a writer, though, I am troubled by this trend of telling people what they can and can’t write." - Laura Preble

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The Right to Write
As a writer, though, I am troubled by this trend of telling people what they can and can’t write.
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September 29, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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"My mentality was "I’m a fucking great writer," though I had no proof of that. That was my first mistake." - Teresa Warner

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The Fear That Freedom Can Bring
My mentality was "I’m a fucking great writer," though I had no proof of that. That was my first mistake.
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September 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM