Author Deesha Philyaw has a 7-figure deal for her next two booksDeesha Philyaw struggled to find a publisher for what became her acclaimed debut “The Secret Lives of Church Ladies.”.
Fiction, memoirs, poems spring from 1,000-word challengeIt began in 2018 as a conversation between authors Jami Attenberg and Anne Gisleson: a writing “boot camp” in which each would write 1,000 words a day for 14 days.
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