This is a conversation I’ve had with several people over the last few months, including querying writers and my agent. Some people may look at the title of this post and say “Does it matter? My agent can figure it out.” Now, that may or may not be true (my agent is going to want […]
To my Critique Partners, I love you ladies. No, really. I love you. You are worth your weight in chocolate. You make me laugh until my sides hurt. When I’m down, you pick me up. I don’t even have to be down about writing-related stuff. When I’m up, you celebrate with me. You write beautiful […]
When I was looking for new blog topics, someone suggested I talk about the importance of a writing space. This is a fairly timely and important topic for me right now. As I may have mentioned roughly 637,000 times on Twitter, my husband and I moved into a new house at the end of November. […]
Here’s something that’s no secret: Rejection sucks. We’ve all been there. Unless you were born under a lucky star, chances are that at some point you’ve been passed over for a promotion you wanted, were turned down for a date, didn’t get the job, lost a proposal… or had a literary agent or publisher tell […]
So, just as I was sitting here, wracking my brain for something to write about, the amazing and talented Mary Ann Nicholson tagged me in the Liebster Award blog hop. Yes! Inspiration! (No, I don’t know what the Liebster Award is, but that’s OK). She asks some tough questions, though. I’m not even sure how […]
The past couple of months, I’ve helped with a couple of contests. All three of my critique partners were featured in PitchWars, so I also read a lot of contest entries as an observer/spectator. My guess is that I read probably about 400 entries between all the contests. Why do I mention this? Just to […]
The amazing Michelle Hauck is doing something awesome – for querying and agented writers. It’s a first page blog hop! So, go ahead and review Michelle’s blog for instructions, post the first 250 words, and post a link on your blog. Then start critiquing! Here’s mine: Genre: Women’s Fiction First 250 When I was eight […]
If you’re a writer who knows how to use the internet (and odds are you are), you’ve probably heard of NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month. I like to call it “Holy shit, it’s November already?” For anyone who doesn’t know, basically, the point of NaNo is to put down 50,000 words on the page […]