Sustaining a writing life isn’t easy. Even the most successful and widely published writers must navigate a publishing industry in flux, grappling with AI and competing for eyeballs with streamers, TikTok and other social media. These industry realities mean writers may have to adapt and reinvent themselves as authors over the course of a career, switching genres or styles and writing under different pen names to appeal to different audiences. A copywriter, bookseller, and playwright before she switched to fiction, author of three thrillers (her latest written under the pseudonym Robin Brookes), Brooke Robinson will be talking to us about how to reinvent yourself as a writer.

