As promised, this weeks stats. Submissions sent this week: 8 Responses: 0 Total number of queries floating in cyberspace waiting for a response: 15 Yes, I haven’t heard any news this week. However, I did go to the hospital yesterday for an EGD and the doctor found a big ol’…
It takes guts to send out queries. No matter how thick your skin, rejection hurts. You’ve put your time, your SOUL into writing, and now you get one, maybe two lines of “not right for us.” I’ve decided to put my guts out there, so to speak. I’ve started querying…
I have a daily word goal of writing 1,000 words a day. (Now you know why I never blog.) A few days ago I’d hit the 700 word mark, took a break, came back to the computer when Word encountered a “fatal error.” Basically my words were lost and they…
Maybe I can call this hocus pocus. Sounds like a good name for it. But sometimes I have weird things happen to me. I don’t know if it has a name, but here’s an example. Two days ago I was driving home, kids in the car, radio turned on the…
I realize some of you must be frustrated with me. I’ve been going on and on about how I’ve started writing, yet most of you have no clue what I’m even writing about. This is your lucky break. Today, I will share the big secret. This is actually the query…
It’s been one year since I started writing my first novel. Now I’ve finished three. I guess I should celebreate. Woohoo! There, I celebrated. Honestly, I feel like writing is celebrating. It’s when I get to open up my mind and creativity. I get to use some of my college…
There was a pretty long line but it was so worth it! Meg was extremely friendly. She even gave me some advice on finding an agent for my own books. I finished this book the previous night at 11:30. Loved it. And now I have a signed copy. According to…
I know I’ve had some people wondering how a mom of three kids can write three books in less than a year. Well, I don’t really have an answer. But I can tell you how it got started… Jealousy. Perhaps not the best virtue, or a virtue at all,…
