Self-promotion for people who hate self-promotion

from Substack Live Podcast · host Sarah Fay, PhD and Maya C. Popa

Maya C. Popa and I talk about self-promotion for the self-promotion averse.Find out why self-promotion is all about bravely falling backward into a ball pit and why we can blame our dislike of it on the Modernists, Roland Barthes, and the Iowa Writers Workshop. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.substackwritersatwork.com/subscribe

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