This past week I got back my first round of edits for my second book, Enterprising an Dangerous, the sequel to Worthy of Trust. Which is very exciting, but what does it look like to get edits back? What is my approach? When I get the first …
Read MoreStacks of Summaries
One of my least favorite parts of the querying process (for those of you who are not writers, the process of trying to find an agent to represent you and your novels in the publishing world) aside from the waiting—which I established in an earlier …
Read MoreWhy Shakespeare?
Two things shape my novel (and the series): the American Revolution and Shakespeare. If you’ve read my previous two blogs, you know my reasons for choosing to use the American Revolution as the setting, but why incorporate Shakespeare into my novel? Why not? I supposed …
Read MoreWhy write the American Revolution? Part 2: The Passion
In my previous blog post, I wrote about the practical reasons for choosing to set my novel during the American Revolution. In this post, I’m writing about the passion behind the practical. This is also my reasoning for why you should care about—and want to …
Read MoreWhy write the American Revolution? Part 1: The Practical
Perhaps you are wondering why, out of all the time periods in which I could have chosen to set a novel, why did I choose the American Revolution? I am going to answer that in two posts, the practical and the passion behind the practical, …
Read MoreCommas, Page Numbers, and Spelling – oh My!
As mentioned in a previous post, I have been doing a lot of editing this year. Most days, it feels like all I have been doing is editing. I fall asleep thinking about edits, I dream about edits, I wake up knowing what edits I …
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