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Book Alchemy

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A hideaway for the book lovers. Our secret library to hang out with coffee and notebooks and pens. Swap recommendations on books... and write the ones that don't yet exist.

Free Subscription Benefits

  • Public Footnotes Posts and Secret Library Podcast episodes

Paid Subcription Benefits

  • Members-only workshops, lives + Accountability thread
  • Access to full archive and the Secret Reference Library
  • Twice-monthly writing craft + process posts

Paid Subscription Plans

  • $70 a year
  • $7 a month

About Caroline Donahue

๐Ÿ“šBook Witch. ๐ŸŽ™๏ธHost of the award-winning Secret Library Podcast. ๐Ÿ“Writer, Book Coach and ๐Ÿ“–Author of Writing through Fear. ๐Ÿ˜ปAmerican in Berlin, with cats.

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