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So, I’ve found this incredible website called querytracker.net and the inner list maker in me has gone COMPLETELY CRAZY. If you could see the lists I’m making for agents to query, you’d probably slap me. I am OBSESSED with this website. It’s so great for researching lit agents and seeing statistics and comments from others who have submitted. I’m in LOVE. I even paid the $25 for the year of premium membership… be still, my heart! Anyhoooo… speaking of queries, I’ve sent out a bunch…
I am so excited! The first issue of Forever Onward! Review is now up!! I would love for you to check it out. We had some really great writers submit. We are ALWAYS accepting submissions on a rolling basis so if you’re interested in submitting, just check out the submissions tab of the website and send us some stuff!! On another note, I am done with chapter two of my NA novel and am on to chapter three! I’m really loving how this story just seems to flow right out of me. Word count: 11,429…
You’re the Catalyst queries have been sent! I’m still researching more agents to send queries to but I’ve sent a bunch for now. Now I play the waiting game which is never fun. I did get on rejection already (super fast, too) but it was from somewhere that only had you send the query and no pages. I don’t like that as much. So hopefully someone will read the pages and like it! It’s my baby, as I’m sure all of you think of your own books as…
Heartbreak: A Fifty Word Story My fifty word story was published today! Check it out and rate it…
“Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it.” — Ray Bradbury…
May has been a great month. My writing is getting published in FOUR places. What?!?!?! It feels unreal. But I’m still submitting different stories so hopefully the list will continue to grow. The third piece I’m having published is a short piece called “Hell is a Strange Place” and will be published in June 2013. Stay tuned for a link! In other writing news, I’ve just submitted my screenplay to the Austin Film Festival. I know it’s a long shot but I just had to do it. You never know…
I am very excited to tell you all that I’m getting published… TIMES THREE! I’ve now heard back from three places that want to publish my work. “Dear Prudence” will be published by two different places, the second will have an alternate ending. My flash fiction piece titled “Fuck Melinda… Literally” will also be published. This is very exciting news for me! I’m currently feeling inspired by all the love so I’ve been writing a lot of different flash fiction pieces. I’ll be posting…
Hello dear followers! It’s been a while since I’ve updated so here I am to…um…update! First off, I would like to tell you all the FABULOUS news I received early today! My short story Dear Prudence will be published in the Jan/Feb 2014 issue of Down in the Dirt magazine! I’m so very excited to have my first short story published! It will also be available online later this week so I will be sure to post that link for you when it is up. In other writing news…
Nail biting. Hyperventilation. Pulse quickening. Finger tapping. Leg shaking. These are all signs that you may or may not have your first real draft of your novel in the hands of FOUR of your friends for a few days and have heard nothing from any of them since you gave it to them. These are all signs for how stressed you are. These are all signs that you may or may not internally combust if said friends do not finish the heck up soon. These are all signs you might be going crazy. I will shift my attention elsewhere. I…
My novel is a bird. Yep, you heard me correct. A bird. My novel has taken flight and is out in the world. Never before has anyone ever read any of it. Well, that isn’t true entirely. My fiction writing professor in college read the first two chapters but now that it has a different beginning, she technically has only read the second and that was years ago. Much has changed since then. I finished my first round of editing tonight and offered to share my work with any of my friends who would brutally critique it. So…
