In this episode, Sandra talks with authors Sarah Blanger and Kamara Bowling Davis about their new book, North Alabama Beer: An Intoxicating History. Sarah and Kamara share research tips, the importance of preparing a proposal and how they planned the marketing for their book. We talk about how important writing partnerships are and dish on dry counties and bootleggers!

Line-editing versus copy-editing, what is the difference? How do you know when you need an editor, and what questions should you ask when you are considering hiring one? Join Laura Rothschild, literary agent and co-founder of RO Literary as she discusses this topic with Katrina Oko-Odoi Ph.D. founder and senior editor of Editing Worm.

On this episode, we discuss tools of the trade. We share our favorite tools for writing, organization, tracking submissions and craft. We apologize for less than stellar audio. We are working on improving our future podcasts. If you like our podcast, please subscribe here and on iTunes. We'd appreciate it if you would also leave us a positive review. Thanks for listening in!

It's query month at RO Literary, and in this episode Laura and Sandra read three query letters and discuss what caught their attention and what didn't. They also talk about word counts and why you should follow submission guidelines.