I've been a little quiet here on my newsletter list because I've been head down, working on deadlines and on this fun thing I wanted to get finished! If you're new here, and many of you are, welcome!

While it's been quiet on the newsletter front the past month, I'm getting ready to dive back into newsletters, and I wanted to start by giving you something (I think) is super useful and fun.

Sometimes writing/publishing feels like you’re standing in the middle of a kitchen with 47 timers going off… and you can’t remember what you put in the oven or what's supposed to go in the oven next, and let's not even talk about those 6 pots on the stove when you only have 3 working burners...

In other words, you’re doing stuff. You’re trying. You’re learning. You're getting overwhelmed and you're just not sure...what the heck am I supposed to be doing now?

So I made something for you:

​Find Your Author Stage (Quick Quiz)​

It’s fast, practical, and it’ll point you toward the kind of next step that actually matches where you are in your publishing career, whether you’re drafting, revising, publishing, rebuilding, or wondering if you’re in a weird little Pivot Season.

It's meant to help you answer two not-so-simple questions: What stage of your publishing career are you in right now and what exactly should you be focusing on?

👉 Take the quiz here and it will not only tell you what author stage you're in, but it will give you helpful advice via the results page, and then a 3-email sequence, to help you get the most out of what's happening now (not what you need to worry about later).

A few notes before you click:

• This isn’t a personality "what kind of pastry are you" quiz. No “you’re a croissant and here's why you're weird” results (I would totally take that quiz, though). This is a practical quiz based on your actual circumstances, with actionable information.
• It’s not here to judge you or tell you you’re behind or you're doing it wrong.
• It’s here to help you understand you can stop doing Stage 4 work when you haven't met Stage 1 goals yet.

When you’re done taking the quiz, hit reply and tell me what stage you got, and if it surprised you or made you go, ohhh, that makes sense?

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Dan and I read every response, and I genuinely love seeing where people land. We spent a lot of time putting this quiz together in order to give you something fun but practical and useful (true story: this is probably the 6th version of the quiz we've made over the past 3 years and it's the first time we've actually managed to make it public.)

We hope you have fun with it.

~Angela

P.S. If you take the quiz and immediately think, “Okay, but what do I do with this?” make sure you check your email, that email contains a lot more information and next steps. Once you've read that email, and you're still feeling some kind of way, you can always reply and tell me what’s going on. I’m happy to point you in the right direction or give you some feedback.