Category Archives: querying

I had written a blog post a month or so back (I’d look for it and link it, but it’s Monday and I’m busy and besides that I’m totally lazy) where I had admitted (more or less) that my novels … Continue reading

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The cover for my new book. If you want to be thoroughly entertained and crave a shower of fireworks on the Internet, one might be better served to stay away from the political realm and follow authors and agents embroiled … Continue reading

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It’s Monday, and my Real Life plate runneth over. Our office survived four days of painters, which is no easy task.  (Think trying to paint around an explosion, and you’ll know what the painters had to deal with.) Today’s enrollments … Continue reading

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A long, long time ago (holy cow, five years ago!), I wrote this article about kicking my muse to the curb. Thanks to a workshop at the San Francisco Writers Conference this year, I have changed my mind. When I … Continue reading

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It had to happen. After weeks of Internet back and forth on the self-publishing versus traditionally publishing options (which kind of blossomed into WWIII), with articles like this,  and this, and this monstrosity of a blog post that took me … Continue reading

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This will be a short post, because I have a thousand things to do before I leave Thursday (way early) morning. 1. I am so ready for San Francisco! I’m always ready for the City by the Bay, but right … Continue reading

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For some reason, I felt that 2013 was a banner year in my writing endeavors. Never mind that it took me the entire year to re-work and re-edit my first manuscript…even though that was a major undertaking full of major … Continue reading

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