Kate McKean joins Jeff to talk about her new book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1668055546/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1668055546">Write Through It: An Insider's Guide to Publishing and the Creative Life</a>. Kate is a literary agent at the Howard Morhaim Literary Agency and writes the extremely interesting and popular <a href="https://www.agentsandbooks.com/">Agents + Books</a> newsletter.
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