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ABOUT ME:
My name is Alyssa Matesic, and I’m a professional book editor with 7+ years of book publishing and editorial experience. Throughout my career, I’ve held editorial roles across both sides of the publishing industry: Big Five publishing houses and literary agencies. This goal of this channel is to help writers throughout the book writing journey—whether you're working on your manuscript or you're looking for publishing advice.

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[KentuckyObjectivist]

Only thing that confuses me is ... if I don't have a book deal yet, what should I do to build up a social media account? Like ... what would I even post/talk about? Do I have to be a Booktuber just to get traditionally published? 😅

[floragraves]

As always, Alyssa, your videos are extremely helpful and well done. I have a question if you have time. Will agents or publishers want writers to be on social media, or can a writer just grow their newsletter and go on podcasts and interviews instead?

[aWildJellieAppeared]

As someone who is deeply insecure about my appearance/weight (and is quite a bit older than the usual TikToker) I'm a bit anxious about filming myself on TikTok lol. How essential is it to have TikTok specifically for traditional publishing? Could I use something like Twitter or a blog instead?