Confessions, craft, and clarity from literary agent Jessica Berg

Secrets & Slush is a weekly email for writers who crave truth more than platitudes. It’s part industry info, part diary entry, and part masterclass in storytelling from someone who reads queries for a living.

Every issue pulls back the curtain on traditional publishing and the messy ambition that drives it.

You’ll get:

Candid thoughts from inside a literary agency inbox.
Practical, bite-sized lessons on querying, pitching, and story stakes.
Real talk about confidence, rejection, and creative resilience.
Plenty of things that make you close your laptop and think.

If you’re a novelist, memoirist, or simply a writer who’s tired of vague advice, this is where you’ll finally get the unfiltered version.