If you don't know Dieker's work already, get to know it: she's a co-owner of The Billfold, her website is an incredible resource for practical and honest info about the freelance writing life, and she hosts the Writing & Money podcast along similar lines. She's reading from Biographies at Phinney Books on June 6.

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