Yet Another Defense of Romance
Smart people have defended romance for years. Here are some of their articles.
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The Magic of Manuscript Rejections; Round 4
The ongoing saga. Look, there has to be at least some fun in this process. Dragging you along is fun.
RWA Chapter Contests: Experience is What You Get
You know, after you really needed it for the contest.
A Few of My Favorite Things
This picture represents my hopes and goals. I’d even go so far as to add a hashtag and make it #lifegoals. Someday I, too, may be part of a used bookstore promotion to clean off some shelves and get rid of 12 romance novels for 1.00$ It may sound bitter or snarky, but really, that is the goal. To have enough of my books in print that someday a bookstore will have to get rid of some at…
Pining for an Outline
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. -Douglas Adams
The Magic of Manuscript Rejections; Month 3
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 The answers I’ve gotten have been about what I expected for an unknown, unpublished…
Querying: We Hates It!
Slogging through the Query trenches. In which there is a lot of angst and some hot chocolate.