Novel writing provides the perfect excuse for exotic explorations — especially when it comes to choosing novel settings. And, I’m a bit lusty in the travel department — unable to get my mind off all the frolicking in France I’ll be doing this September. This isn’t new. My family will report that wanderlust and I…
The older I get, the more I want mid-life female protagonists in the novels I read. It’s like we don’t exist. While browsing Pinterest this morning, I came across a quote that starts, “As I get older . . .” and ends with, “Your late 20s are when you start to figure everything out.” Late…
Writing feedback hurts. The other day, literally within a few hours of me doing the “I am amazing at this” dance after I wrote what I considered a killer short story submission, I got an e-mail. Seeing this editor’s name in my InBox brought on a mixture of excitement and fear as it usually does….
Put yourself out there. That’s what they tell you. The other morning I flopped down onto the bed, slightly weepy, and declared myself exhausted by the epic level of work I’ve done to get my fiction writing published. I’ve been querying the novel I just finished—Geist—hard for the last six weeks. This is the rejection…