It’s been a year since I began querying with my first novel, Bring Me Back. I don’t blog much about the query process (trying to get a literary agent). The need to bitch is great and it’s a disaster waiting to happen for an unpublished author to go around spouting her opinions of the gatekeepers. The temptation has been there though. A bunch of times. I got around it by sitting on my hands and waiting for the mood to pass. Here are the rules I learned to…
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I’m happy to share very good (SQUEE) writing news today. My amazing, stupendous, superstar critique partner, Karen Stivali’s, first published novella, “Always You” comes out today. “Always You” is a great story about the value of being friends before you fall in love and discovering that the person you’re meant to be with is sometimes right under your nose. Karen is an incredible writer, which is the reason I am her critique partner (aside from the fact that we share a brain, but that’s a different blog post),…