It made me sad to have so many author events cancelled. Conventions! Readings! Talks! I want to still be here with you, virtually, so here are a few ways to do that: Monday night, glass artist and ren fair voice extraordinaire Molly Sotherden will be reading my story “Metal and Read more
It’s been very hard to try to write, lately. That’s okay. Every life has its disasters and upheavals. It’s no different when you share that disaster with the whole world. I picked up an old fanfic to get myself to write something I wasn’t going to stress out about getting Read more
This is a post about revising, which means it’s also a post about drafting. Sorry. You have to see the drafting to understand the editing. I promise it’s over quickly. I write my stories from rough outlines, usually a list of scenes I want to have happen like this: A. Read more
1. When I was nine, I almost drowned a girl. We’d met that day, at the falls, and were instant friends in the way only nine-year-olds can be. Neither of us could swim. The river was shallow, all except that one spot at the base of the falls, which we gravitated toward like filings, Read more
I just signed my first ever novel contract, and many people are asking me how I went from manuscript to actual advance money! The bad news is we have to go waaaay back on this one: High School. I was sending my first novel to publishers, “A” (It would be Read more
On the writing chat boards I frequent to complain about all my rejections, I’ve noticed a particular way of talking about rejections that needs to be addressed. We all want to know why a story has been rejected. WHY?? It was beautiful and perfect and you rejected it, why?? And Read more
Tuesday, May 12th, I woke up at 8:38am. I don’t use an alarm clock, I’m a natural riser, and I shoot for about 8:30 so I can get dressed and make a pot of tea and be at my laptop by 9. This morning, I’m not feeling it. I want Read more