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A Writing Coach & Client: Ellen Baker and Terence Sullivan on Alice of Oz, Summerland Cove, & Two Paths to Publishing – The Writing Coach Ep. 240

Welcome back to The Writing Coach podcast.

Today's a first for the show: two guests at once. Novelist and writing coach Ellen Baker is here with her longtime client, Terence Sullivan, whose TikTok story series became the novel Alice of Oz.

We're talking about seven rounds of edits, traditional versus self-publishing, and what a great coach–writer partnership actually looks like.

What happens when a bestselling, traditionally published novelist takes on a first-time writer who typed his entire manuscript on his phone?

Ellen is the author of The Hidden Life of Cecily Larson, an Indie Next pick…

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