So, as of today, I’m 75% through the next draft on PubStunt. Cross all your fingers and eyes, I’m hoping this will be the last major revision. The plan is to finish by the end of September. I’m going through all my “lesser” revisions at the moment – stuff like word choices, tenses, changing a […]
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I think the most disappointing aspect of making my top ten reads list for the year was how many of them I read early on. That’s not to say that I didn’t enjoy several books in the second half of 2024, just that there weren’t as many compelling choices. I prefer a bloodthirsty competition from
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Recently, I let someone else read my entire novel. If you’d asked me six months ago who that honor would belong to, I wouldn’t have said this, but maybe it was for the best. I’m not a writer who is eager to share her work. Up until a couple of years ago, I didn’t really
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I don’t know why I expected The Wedding People to be kind of insufferable. Maybe it’s because I heard that a bunch of people really liked it, and sometimes that sets the bar too high. Maybe it’s the color scheme on the jacket. Whatever the reason, I went into the book thinking, “All of these
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Whenever I go longer than five minutes without checking in on something I’m writing, I start to doubt myself. The longer I go, the more that gremlin has time to fester and grow, until I’ve talked myself into believing that my six year old niece could string together a more coherent story than I can
Recently, I discovered that Dean Butler (the guy who plays Almanzo Wilder on Little House on the Prairie) wrote an autobiography. My inner child woke up, screamed at the top of her lungs, and insisted that we read that autobiography with great haste. (Side note: Butler narrates his own autobiography as an audio book. If
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This is a record of my journey to publication.Hopefully. It might also be a public record of humiliation. I’ve been working on this project, referred to as PubStunt, for a while now. I remember scribbling down the vaguest idea of it in study hall my senior year of high school. Of course, I also remember
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