Courtney Kocak
@courtneykocak.bsky.social
📖 debut memoir with @triohousepress.org coming March 2026 ✍️ writer NYT, Amazon, Netflix, Cosmo & more 🎙 podcaster Private Parts Unknown, The Bleeders & Podcast Bestie 🤓 Antioch MFA candidate
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Courtney Kocak
@courtneykocak.bsky.social
· May 22
BIG EFFING NEWS, Y’ALL!!! 📣📚
My debut memoir GIRL GONE WILD drops in March 2026 with @triohousepress.org!!! 🎉
Can’t wait for y’all to read my dirty lil secrets. 😂
This book has been a labor of love for years. Working with a Minnesota press and @krisbigalk.bsky.social feels fated. 🧩💫
More soon!
My debut memoir GIRL GONE WILD drops in March 2026 with @triohousepress.org!!! 🎉
Can’t wait for y’all to read my dirty lil secrets. 😂
This book has been a labor of love for years. Working with a Minnesota press and @krisbigalk.bsky.social feels fated. 🧩💫
More soon!
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Thank you Writing Workshops and @courtneykocak.bsky.social for the Edit and Elevate: Revision Intensive. So many great tips, like put your reader hat on, from your revision checklist. Can’t wait to read your memoir, Girl Gone Wild.
November 17, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Thank you Writing Workshops and @courtneykocak.bsky.social for the Edit and Elevate: Revision Intensive. So many great tips, like put your reader hat on, from your revision checklist. Can’t wait to read your memoir, Girl Gone Wild.
Sex work, love & healing in the Nevada desert 💫
On the latest episode of Private Parts Unknown, I interviewed Victoria Fox & The Kali Love—America’s first legal full-service couple working together in a brothel. Such a fascinating & fun ep!
🎧 Listen now: www.privatepartsunknown.com/americas-fir...
On the latest episode of Private Parts Unknown, I interviewed Victoria Fox & The Kali Love—America’s first legal full-service couple working together in a brothel. Such a fascinating & fun ep!
🎧 Listen now: www.privatepartsunknown.com/americas-fir...
October 28, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Sex work, love & healing in the Nevada desert 💫
On the latest episode of Private Parts Unknown, I interviewed Victoria Fox & The Kali Love—America’s first legal full-service couple working together in a brothel. Such a fascinating & fun ep!
🎧 Listen now: www.privatepartsunknown.com/americas-fir...
On the latest episode of Private Parts Unknown, I interviewed Victoria Fox & The Kali Love—America’s first legal full-service couple working together in a brothel. Such a fascinating & fun ep!
🎧 Listen now: www.privatepartsunknown.com/americas-fir...
Writers! Want to turn your rough drafts into submission-ready pieces?
Join me for Edit & Elevate, a hands-on revision intensive where I’ll help you strengthen your structure & polish your prose with my favorite techniques from revising my memoir.
Sign up here: writingworkshops.com/products/edi...
Join me for Edit & Elevate, a hands-on revision intensive where I’ll help you strengthen your structure & polish your prose with my favorite techniques from revising my memoir.
Sign up here: writingworkshops.com/products/edi...
October 26, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Writers! Want to turn your rough drafts into submission-ready pieces?
Join me for Edit & Elevate, a hands-on revision intensive where I’ll help you strengthen your structure & polish your prose with my favorite techniques from revising my memoir.
Sign up here: writingworkshops.com/products/edi...
Join me for Edit & Elevate, a hands-on revision intensive where I’ll help you strengthen your structure & polish your prose with my favorite techniques from revising my memoir.
Sign up here: writingworkshops.com/products/edi...
Writers! Thinking about starting a podcast? 🎙
My 4-week Podcasting for Writers class starting November 2nd will help you develop your concept, record your trailer, and launch with confidence.
Let’s bring your podcast dreams to life!
Sign up here: writingworkshops.com/products/pod...
My 4-week Podcasting for Writers class starting November 2nd will help you develop your concept, record your trailer, and launch with confidence.
Let’s bring your podcast dreams to life!
Sign up here: writingworkshops.com/products/pod...
October 26, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Writers! Thinking about starting a podcast? 🎙
My 4-week Podcasting for Writers class starting November 2nd will help you develop your concept, record your trailer, and launch with confidence.
Let’s bring your podcast dreams to life!
Sign up here: writingworkshops.com/products/pod...
My 4-week Podcasting for Writers class starting November 2nd will help you develop your concept, record your trailer, and launch with confidence.
Let’s bring your podcast dreams to life!
Sign up here: writingworkshops.com/products/pod...
How an Italian mining engineer got into porn at 40 & became an icon...
On the new Private Parts Unknown, I talk with @maestroclaudio.com about his wild career pivot, his relationship with his wife & decades in the industry from VHS to digital
🎧 Dive in → www.privatepartsunknown.com/meet-maestro...
On the new Private Parts Unknown, I talk with @maestroclaudio.com about his wild career pivot, his relationship with his wife & decades in the industry from VHS to digital
🎧 Dive in → www.privatepartsunknown.com/meet-maestro...
October 20, 2025 at 4:51 AM
How an Italian mining engineer got into porn at 40 & became an icon...
On the new Private Parts Unknown, I talk with @maestroclaudio.com about his wild career pivot, his relationship with his wife & decades in the industry from VHS to digital
🎧 Dive in → www.privatepartsunknown.com/meet-maestro...
On the new Private Parts Unknown, I talk with @maestroclaudio.com about his wild career pivot, his relationship with his wife & decades in the industry from VHS to digital
🎧 Dive in → www.privatepartsunknown.com/meet-maestro...
Hey writers! Thinking about starting a podcast?
On Saturday 10/25, I’m teaching a one-day crash course to go from idea to execution.
We’ll cover concept, gear, production, launch strategy, etc.—plus how to test your podcast idea on Substack.
✨ Sign up now: writingworkshops.com/products/so-...
On Saturday 10/25, I’m teaching a one-day crash course to go from idea to execution.
We’ll cover concept, gear, production, launch strategy, etc.—plus how to test your podcast idea on Substack.
✨ Sign up now: writingworkshops.com/products/so-...
October 20, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Hey writers! Thinking about starting a podcast?
On Saturday 10/25, I’m teaching a one-day crash course to go from idea to execution.
We’ll cover concept, gear, production, launch strategy, etc.—plus how to test your podcast idea on Substack.
✨ Sign up now: writingworkshops.com/products/so-...
On Saturday 10/25, I’m teaching a one-day crash course to go from idea to execution.
We’ll cover concept, gear, production, launch strategy, etc.—plus how to test your podcast idea on Substack.
✨ Sign up now: writingworkshops.com/products/so-...
Hey writers, want a strategic pair of eyes on your website, socials, Substack, etc.?
I’m offering limited 1:1 Writer’s Platform Audits to help you clarify your author brand efficiently, effectively, and sustainably. On sale for just $75 thru EOD Tuesday!
Book here → www.courtneykocak.com/teaching
I’m offering limited 1:1 Writer’s Platform Audits to help you clarify your author brand efficiently, effectively, and sustainably. On sale for just $75 thru EOD Tuesday!
Book here → www.courtneykocak.com/teaching
October 20, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Hey writers, want a strategic pair of eyes on your website, socials, Substack, etc.?
I’m offering limited 1:1 Writer’s Platform Audits to help you clarify your author brand efficiently, effectively, and sustainably. On sale for just $75 thru EOD Tuesday!
Book here → www.courtneykocak.com/teaching
I’m offering limited 1:1 Writer’s Platform Audits to help you clarify your author brand efficiently, effectively, and sustainably. On sale for just $75 thru EOD Tuesday!
Book here → www.courtneykocak.com/teaching
Does the thought of building your author platform break you out in hives?
The Writer’s 60-Day Platform Glow-Up helps you build your platform without the overwhelm. One 20-minute task a day = real progress.
On sale for just $49 through EOD Tuesday!
Learn more → www.courtneykocak.com/teaching
The Writer’s 60-Day Platform Glow-Up helps you build your platform without the overwhelm. One 20-minute task a day = real progress.
On sale for just $49 through EOD Tuesday!
Learn more → www.courtneykocak.com/teaching
October 17, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Does the thought of building your author platform break you out in hives?
The Writer’s 60-Day Platform Glow-Up helps you build your platform without the overwhelm. One 20-minute task a day = real progress.
On sale for just $49 through EOD Tuesday!
Learn more → www.courtneykocak.com/teaching
The Writer’s 60-Day Platform Glow-Up helps you build your platform without the overwhelm. One 20-minute task a day = real progress.
On sale for just $49 through EOD Tuesday!
Learn more → www.courtneykocak.com/teaching
Writers—your glow-up era starts now! ✨
I just launched a 60-day email course (20-min tasks/day) to help you build your platform and a 1:1 Writer’s Platform Audit to get personalized feedback on your brand and opportunities.
Grab both for $124, this week only → www.courtneykocak.com/teaching
I just launched a 60-day email course (20-min tasks/day) to help you build your platform and a 1:1 Writer’s Platform Audit to get personalized feedback on your brand and opportunities.
Grab both for $124, this week only → www.courtneykocak.com/teaching
October 15, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Writers—your glow-up era starts now! ✨
I just launched a 60-day email course (20-min tasks/day) to help you build your platform and a 1:1 Writer’s Platform Audit to get personalized feedback on your brand and opportunities.
Grab both for $124, this week only → www.courtneykocak.com/teaching
I just launched a 60-day email course (20-min tasks/day) to help you build your platform and a 1:1 Writer’s Platform Audit to get personalized feedback on your brand and opportunities.
Grab both for $124, this week only → www.courtneykocak.com/teaching
Childbirth can be beautiful—but it can also be life-threatening.
Emily McLaughlin joins Private Parts Unknown to share her harrowing postpartum stroke story... and the warning signs she missed in retrospect.
🎧 The Untold Dangers of Childbirth is out now: www.privatepartsunknown.com/the-untold-d...
Emily McLaughlin joins Private Parts Unknown to share her harrowing postpartum stroke story... and the warning signs she missed in retrospect.
🎧 The Untold Dangers of Childbirth is out now: www.privatepartsunknown.com/the-untold-d...
October 9, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Childbirth can be beautiful—but it can also be life-threatening.
Emily McLaughlin joins Private Parts Unknown to share her harrowing postpartum stroke story... and the warning signs she missed in retrospect.
🎧 The Untold Dangers of Childbirth is out now: www.privatepartsunknown.com/the-untold-d...
Emily McLaughlin joins Private Parts Unknown to share her harrowing postpartum stroke story... and the warning signs she missed in retrospect.
🎧 The Untold Dangers of Childbirth is out now: www.privatepartsunknown.com/the-untold-d...
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New Behind the Bastards 🔍
Robert discusses the mysterious 2001 anthrax attacks and how the FBI, without any real evidence, decided to destroy a man's life over it.
@iwriteok.bsky.social @courtneykocak.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
Robert discusses the mysterious 2001 anthrax attacks and how the FBI, without any real evidence, decided to destroy a man's life over it.
@iwriteok.bsky.social @courtneykocak.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
October 7, 2025 at 7:54 PM
New Behind the Bastards 🔍
Robert discusses the mysterious 2001 anthrax attacks and how the FBI, without any real evidence, decided to destroy a man's life over it.
@iwriteok.bsky.social @courtneykocak.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
Robert discusses the mysterious 2001 anthrax attacks and how the FBI, without any real evidence, decided to destroy a man's life over it.
@iwriteok.bsky.social @courtneykocak.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
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New Behind the Bastards 🔍
How The FBI Botched the 2001 Anthrax Scare (Part 1)
@iwriteok.bsky.social @courtneykocak.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
How The FBI Botched the 2001 Anthrax Scare (Part 1)
@iwriteok.bsky.social @courtneykocak.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
October 2, 2025 at 7:01 PM
New Behind the Bastards 🔍
How The FBI Botched the 2001 Anthrax Scare (Part 1)
@iwriteok.bsky.social @courtneykocak.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
How The FBI Botched the 2001 Anthrax Scare (Part 1)
@iwriteok.bsky.social @courtneykocak.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
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New Behind the Bastards 🔍
Robert begins our series of episodes about two of the most infamous fuck ups in US law enforcement history, starting with the Atlanta Olympic Park Bombing.
@iwriteok.bsky.social @courtneykocak.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
Robert begins our series of episodes about two of the most infamous fuck ups in US law enforcement history, starting with the Atlanta Olympic Park Bombing.
@iwriteok.bsky.social @courtneykocak.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
September 30, 2025 at 5:14 PM
New Behind the Bastards 🔍
Robert begins our series of episodes about two of the most infamous fuck ups in US law enforcement history, starting with the Atlanta Olympic Park Bombing.
@iwriteok.bsky.social @courtneykocak.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
Robert begins our series of episodes about two of the most infamous fuck ups in US law enforcement history, starting with the Atlanta Olympic Park Bombing.
@iwriteok.bsky.social @courtneykocak.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
🚀 Writers, podcasters, creatives—your newsletter can be the ultimate growth hack.
Join my one-day workshop on October 4th to learn how to start, grow & monetize a newsletter that builds your career + biz.
👉 Link here: writingworkshops.com/products/sta...
Join my one-day workshop on October 4th to learn how to start, grow & monetize a newsletter that builds your career + biz.
👉 Link here: writingworkshops.com/products/sta...
September 22, 2025 at 4:10 AM
🚀 Writers, podcasters, creatives—your newsletter can be the ultimate growth hack.
Join my one-day workshop on October 4th to learn how to start, grow & monetize a newsletter that builds your career + biz.
👉 Link here: writingworkshops.com/products/sta...
Join my one-day workshop on October 4th to learn how to start, grow & monetize a newsletter that builds your career + biz.
👉 Link here: writingworkshops.com/products/sta...
Too many ideas for one format? That’s a strength! ✨
My class, The Multi-Passionate Writer’s Life, next Saturday 9/6, will show you how to adapt your stories across essays, podcasts, books, newsletters, scripts & more.
Sign up for just $75 → writingworkshops.com/products/the...
My class, The Multi-Passionate Writer’s Life, next Saturday 9/6, will show you how to adapt your stories across essays, podcasts, books, newsletters, scripts & more.
Sign up for just $75 → writingworkshops.com/products/the...
August 31, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Too many ideas for one format? That’s a strength! ✨
My class, The Multi-Passionate Writer’s Life, next Saturday 9/6, will show you how to adapt your stories across essays, podcasts, books, newsletters, scripts & more.
Sign up for just $75 → writingworkshops.com/products/the...
My class, The Multi-Passionate Writer’s Life, next Saturday 9/6, will show you how to adapt your stories across essays, podcasts, books, newsletters, scripts & more.
Sign up for just $75 → writingworkshops.com/products/the...
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OPINION: Local politicians ask Lloyd Doggett to pass the torch of public service to a new generation.
Opinion: Lloyd Doggett: Pass the Torch to a New Generation
A divisive primary is not how this extraordinary public servant should cap his career
www.austinchronicle.com
August 21, 2025 at 2:51 PM
OPINION: Local politicians ask Lloyd Doggett to pass the torch of public service to a new generation.
Want to see your byline in a top publication? 📣
My best bylines are from essays placed in popular columns—in this practical & productive workshop, I’ll teach you how.
You’ll get:
✨ 10 target columns & prompts
✨ Editor contact info!
✨ Pitching tips
Sign up: writingworkshops.com/collections/...
My best bylines are from essays placed in popular columns—in this practical & productive workshop, I’ll teach you how.
You’ll get:
✨ 10 target columns & prompts
✨ Editor contact info!
✨ Pitching tips
Sign up: writingworkshops.com/collections/...
August 9, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Want to see your byline in a top publication? 📣
My best bylines are from essays placed in popular columns—in this practical & productive workshop, I’ll teach you how.
You’ll get:
✨ 10 target columns & prompts
✨ Editor contact info!
✨ Pitching tips
Sign up: writingworkshops.com/collections/...
My best bylines are from essays placed in popular columns—in this practical & productive workshop, I’ll teach you how.
You’ll get:
✨ 10 target columns & prompts
✨ Editor contact info!
✨ Pitching tips
Sign up: writingworkshops.com/collections/...
Reposted by Courtney Kocak
An important point. If CA wants to redraw, we would need a special election because of our state constitution. We should be organizing that now.
It’s time to get ruthless🔥
If California holds a special election on redistricting, I’m voting “yes” for new maps. And I promise you I’m bringing friends and family with me to vote.
The Supreme Court already made it clear it’s fine with gerrymandering. So screw it. LFG.
If California holds a special election on redistricting, I’m voting “yes” for new maps. And I promise you I’m bringing friends and family with me to vote.
The Supreme Court already made it clear it’s fine with gerrymandering. So screw it. LFG.
July 31, 2025 at 5:26 PM
An important point. If CA wants to redraw, we would need a special election because of our state constitution. We should be organizing that now.
Reposted by Courtney Kocak
Start your morning with two minutes of the testimony of Samuel Garcia, an average American who drove 3 hours to speak truth to power to the Texas legislature. Let’s decide that we are all Samuel Garcia. Get in their faces and make them listen. Mr. Garcia is a great American.
July 31, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Start your morning with two minutes of the testimony of Samuel Garcia, an average American who drove 3 hours to speak truth to power to the Texas legislature. Let’s decide that we are all Samuel Garcia. Get in their faces and make them listen. Mr. Garcia is a great American.
Reposted by Courtney Kocak
This baby flamingo is so adorable… 🥰
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July 31, 2025 at 10:42 PM
This baby flamingo is so adorable… 🥰
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Wow!! We love this cover for @courtneykocak.bsky.social’s memoir, Girl Gone Wild! Preorders are open now — book releases in early March, 2026.
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July 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Wow!! We love this cover for @courtneykocak.bsky.social’s memoir, Girl Gone Wild! Preorders are open now — book releases in early March, 2026.
triohousepress.myshopify.com/products/pre...
triohousepress.myshopify.com/products/pre...
Reposted by Courtney Kocak
The Washington Post wants us to know about the best sandwiches in town, but not about the Bove confirmation walkout.
July 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The Washington Post wants us to know about the best sandwiches in town, but not about the Bove confirmation walkout.
Reposted by Courtney Kocak
Emil Bove is up for a lifetime appointment. This is not a time to rush through the process, violate the rules, and end debate. But that’s what Republicans on the Judiciary Committee just did. I was the next to speak and they barred us from debating. So we walked out.
July 17, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Emil Bove is up for a lifetime appointment. This is not a time to rush through the process, violate the rules, and end debate. But that’s what Republicans on the Judiciary Committee just did. I was the next to speak and they barred us from debating. So we walked out.
Reposted by Courtney Kocak
Breaking:
A cannabis farmworker who was critically injured during a chaotic immigration raid by federal authorities in California has died.
Jaime Alanis Garcia's death came days after he fell roughly 30 feet during a raid at Glass House Farms in Camarillo. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
A cannabis farmworker who was critically injured during a chaotic immigration raid by federal authorities in California has died.
Jaime Alanis Garcia's death came days after he fell roughly 30 feet during a raid at Glass House Farms in Camarillo. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
California farmworker dies after chaotic federal immigration raid, family says
Jaime Alanis Garcia died days after falling some 30 feet during a chaotic raid on Glass House Farms in Camarillo, California, according to his family.
www.nbcnews.com
July 13, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Breaking:
A cannabis farmworker who was critically injured during a chaotic immigration raid by federal authorities in California has died.
Jaime Alanis Garcia's death came days after he fell roughly 30 feet during a raid at Glass House Farms in Camarillo. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
A cannabis farmworker who was critically injured during a chaotic immigration raid by federal authorities in California has died.
Jaime Alanis Garcia's death came days after he fell roughly 30 feet during a raid at Glass House Farms in Camarillo. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Reposted by Courtney Kocak
Thank you, @courtneykocak.bsky.social, for sending me this awesome mug commemorating the Publisher’s Marketplace announcement for Girl Gone Wild!! 🎉💜💛
July 2, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Thank you, @courtneykocak.bsky.social, for sending me this awesome mug commemorating the Publisher’s Marketplace announcement for Girl Gone Wild!! 🎉💜💛