September 22, 2019

As of today, I have officially started the query process to find an agent for my debut novel. What is life?! I haven’t submitted anything to anyone since I was 17 and thought I could do no wrong. I submitted a terrible novel with no beta reads and only my own editing directly to a…

September 17, 2019

My first novel is almost ready. It is written, edited, read, and edited more. I have written and rewritten, cut and added, and sweat over the whole thing. It is almost ready. Almost is such a huge word. I have been debating whether to publish via traditional publishers or to go the self-publishing route, and…

September 12, 2019

Frozen. The day before, I had so much optimism. Hope. I was going to go, find a tribe, and meet new people. Make new friends. I could close my eyes and envision that, by lunch, I would have found a few people that I could eat and talk and connect with. Then I arrived. The…

September 12, 2019

A big step toward becoming an author is education. I am not a person who is ever going to say a college degree or formal education is necessary to he an author, but that doesn’t mean there are not things to learn. How to publish. How to market. How to handle the stress and the…