My passion for reading exploded in the fifth grade when our local bookmobile(do other places have those?), a converted camper filled with books from the local library, brought the first book in the Dragonlance Chronicles to our classroom. I read that book and the third …
Read More#Pitchwars Mentees Selected…
I didn’t get selected for #Pitchwars but I cannot complain. I got one partial request and got to dream for two weeks with a thousand or so of my writer friends. Here are the awesome writers who got selected. That’s the bad news. But not …
Read MoreEntered in #Pitchwars!!!
A few days ago I entered my mystery manuscript Made Safe in #pitchwars, a contest for completed manuscripts hosted by Brenda Drake. This is a fantastic contest with a bunch of great mentors in a broad range of categories. So now the waiting and twitter …
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#NewAgent and #Pit2Pub Twitter Contests
Today is a great day on Twitter! I am participating in #NewAgent and #Pit2Pub. Pit2Pub is a twitter pitch to publishers managed over at Kristin D. Van Risseghem’s site. #NewAgent is a query directed at new literary agents. #NewAgent has a few more rules managed over …
Read MoreSample sentence from my new short story
Here is the first sentence from my new short story. What do you think? The first time I went by our house and kept driving, I only went around the block, but even then I knew I was conditioning myself to the idea of leaving.
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Getting Ready to Send out Short Story Twenty Steps
I’ve been working on a short story for a few months now called Twenty Steps. I am going to send it out to a few contests. It’s a fairly dark story(go figure) about a girl and an unknown assailant. I’ve been working on deepening it …
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Working on Made Safe…Still
I’ve been working on Made Safe for a few years now. I completed the first draft almost two years ago and then promptly threw it all out and started over. Last year I finished the rewrite and have been going through the revision process ever …
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