Archive - Not So Secret Agent

How to test your friends

a recipe testing template + community resource (TK)

8 hrs ago •

From Test to Table

why recipe testing is important + NSSA skill building

Jul 8 •

recipe AMA + cannonballs

Jul 1 •

June 2025

Two Things about The James Beard Awards

red carpet glam + the state of the culinary industry

Jun 24 •

Baby got backlist

How authors can promote books after publication

Jun 17 •

Not So Secret Agent (Science) Side Note!

Happy Pub Day to RAY + pipettes + children's book publishing

Jun 10 •

6:58

Two new cookbooks + a giveaway!

Happy Publication Day to Potluck Desserts and Entertaining 101!

Jun 3 •

13:00

May 2025

Not So Secret Agent Side Note Series: Part 2

rejections + responsibilities

May 20 •

3:46

Five book deals in three weeks + asparagus

A new series of real time ***Secret Agent Side Notes***

May 15 •

3:43

You asked, I cried.

AMA recap + highlights

May 6 •

April 2025

AMA with Senior Literary Agent

come with your cookbook questions, stay for the networking!

Apr 29 •

How a cookbook agent feeds her family

An interview with Sally Ekus, literary agent, Substack superstar, and mom to Maybelline

Published on The New Family Table • Apr 25

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