We Still Hates It
Or; When It’s Tempting to Quit
Unless you are this author, never do this.
In which other authors offer wise advice that I ignore in the best new-author tradition.
The ongoing saga. Look, there has to be at least some fun in this process. Dragging you along is fun.
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…
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 The answers I’ve gotten have been about what I expected for an unknown, unpublished…
Slogging through the Query trenches. In which there is a lot of angst and some hot chocolate.