Category Archives: Writing Journey

Something I probably should have noted in my previous post about literary agents is that most of the time, agents want you to have a polished, finished manuscript ready to send in. Like I mentioned, there are always going to be a few exceptions, but especially in fiction writing, they want to know that youContinue reading “First Drafts and Query Letters.”

In last Monday’s post, I mentioned that I was in the process of querying agents, and I received a lot of questions about what exactly that means and questions about the importance and benefits of having a literary agent. How this process works differs a little bit from person to person, so keep in mindContinue reading “Literary Agents.”

I received a lot of really good questions regarding query letters and literary agents from my last post, and I wanted to start off this one by saying that I’m working on a post for next week that explains both of those things in more detail. But for today’s post, I wanted to give youContinue reading “Imagery.”

I’m not sure how many of you know this (although you probably assumed if you’ve clicked around my website or read my first two posts) but… I wrote a book! I finished it several years ago and have been working on polishing, editing, and re-editing it in order to get it to a point whereContinue reading “Let’s Back Up.”

During the fall of 2019, I got the itch to start a website. All professional authors have one, and if that was my dream, then I needed to have one as well. (Not to mention, I was gripped with the sudden fear that someone else out there would have my same name and purchase theContinue reading “Restart.”