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The 5 Types of Query Letter Rejections

2017-05-13

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Goals and Hopes, My Books, Query Letters, Writing Process

You will be rejected in many different flavors.

3 Rules for Authors Who Are Full Time Parents

2017-05-08

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Goals and Hopes, My Books, Plotters vs. Pantsers, Writing Process

How do I manage to write full time and also be a full time mom? The short answer: I don’t. These two engagements do not happily co-exist. Any articles out there that confirm you can have kids at home all day and a writing job all day are glossing right over several very important details. Similar to advising tourists to head for the beautiful city of Tokyo and skimming past the small detail that there’s a twenty-story high Godzilla rampaging around those gorgeous high-tech streets.…

The Question of Potties

2017-05-03

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Blogging, Insecure Writer's Support Group Post, My Books, Plotters vs. Pantsers, Writing Process

In which we learn way too much about 1870s bathroom habits

When am I a Writer?

2017-04-15

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Goals and Hopes, My Books, Writing Process

At what point can I say with confidence that I am an author?

Chapter One in the Quest to Publish

2017-03-25

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Goals and Hopes, My Books, Query Letters, Recommendations, Writing Process

In which other authors offer wise advice that I ignore in the best new-author tradition.

The Magic of Manuscript Rejections; Round 4

2017-02-27

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Goals and Hopes, My Books, Query Letters, Writing Process

The ongoing saga. Look, there has to be at least some fun in this process. Dragging you along is fun.

Head Hopping

2017-02-03

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Goals and Hopes, My Books, Recommendations, Silliness, Writing Process

I can’t help it, the term gives me a mental image of headhunters every time.

The Magic of Manuscript Rejections; Month 3

2017-01-20

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My Books, Query Letters

Three months into this journey. By this time I get to look back on my shiny new starting to query self, point, and laugh. I wasn’t so blindly optimistic that I thought my first round of queries would result in a book deal. The research and all the articles I found made it pretty clear that only in a world that includes unicorns does that happen. The answers I’ve gotten have been about what I expected for an unknown, unpublished…