April 24, 2009 Rejection. Of course there is no kind way to say we don’t like your work, but surely there is a way to say it in the vein of it’s not you, it’s me. I don’t think any writer relishes the time and effort spent packaging their work to meet each agent or editor’s individual …
April 22, 2009 I’m a sponge. Yes, a sponge. In the past few weeks that I’ve been networking and hawking my book online and to agents, I’ve become a sponge soaking up this wonderful culture of writers and editors until I’m fairly brimming with formats and function keys! I look around the house and find …
April 9, 2009 People often ask me what genre I write, but I am always reluctant to put my book into a box so small. First, it’s fiction. Family Saga to be more specific. Women’s Literature – even better. But what I really want to write is an Oprah book. You know, the kind. A thought provoking, …
April 7, 2009 It doesn’t have to be a certain genre or a particular artist, but the right song with the right lyrics can really inspire me. Perhaps it’s because a good song is really just poetry set to music. So for me, great music is kind of like reading a best seller while driving …
March 31, 2009 Not only is Gone With the Wind a staple American classic novel, but Margaret Mitchell wins the award for my favorite quote of all time: “In a moment of weakness I have written a book…” 11-19-1935 Me too, Ms. Mitchell, me too.
March 27, 2009 Okay, let’s face it: there is a very stereotypical view of what a writer looks like floating around out there in Hollywood. On one hand it is nice to see the writing world authenticated as a real profession, but why does it have to be romanticized and appear so glamorous everywhere I …
March 24, 2009 Ok, so I love words. I do. I’m a word-a-holic. I love the way a good word feels when it slips off your tongue. I love getting the word of the day e-mailed directly to me from dictionary.com. But I especially love finding words that say just what you mean…words that can stand alone …
March 20, 2009 I realize that as a writer, part of the job is marketing yourself and putting yourself (and your work) out there for critique and recognition. But I also find this part of the process not simply foreign to me but largely uncomfortable. After all isn’t that why I write? I like putting …
March 19, 2009 It all started with a school girl’s journal and moved rapidly into the colorful notebooks of high school English until slowly my stories took over my life…now armed with a lap top computer and a panoply of ideas spun carefully in my mind’s eye, I have finally finished my first novel! Since …
