Today’s RNRHS post is from my amazing writing critique partner, Karen Stivali.  Karen and I met online on the Nathan Bransford forums.  I posted a question about writing and sex and Karen not only answered it, I remember thinking that it was a damn good answer.  Lo and behold, she sent me a board message the next day inquiring about whether I might want a critique partner. We were really lucky to find each other.  Freakishly lucky.  We were both at the same place with our manuscripts at…

I attended the Writer’s Digest Conference last week in New York.  It was a great trip—a chance for me to meet my writing critique partner, Karen Stivali, face-to-face (yay!), spend 48 anxiety-soaked hours with her, meet other writers, and learn about the state of publishing.  I won’t give a full synopsis of my trip, because that would be dull (my flight was delayed, it was cold outside, I was a bit hung over on Sunday), but I did want to write about the dreaded Pitch Slam. For those…

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