Month: May 2018
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Things Are Changing (for the better)!
It used to be that I’d send manuscripts out to agents as soon as I thought they were ready. I did it with Infinity’s Heir back at the end of 2016, and again with Aiko’s Dive with a few “test queries” nearer to the beginning of 2018. In both cases,…
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I got picked for #QueryKombat 2018!!!
I just found out that Aiko’s Dive got picked for #QueryKombat. The first round is next Friday, and I can’t wait to see how my query stacks up! Stay tuned for more info!
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“Oh. It’s just a hobby, then.”
Rejection is something that writers are intimately familiar with. Whether from contests, the slush pile, or elsewhere, we’ve come to accept it as a right of passage; the price of a ticket to walk the path to publishing. Even so, rejection is a bitter pill to swallow over and over…
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Revision Update: Infinity’s Heir
This week has been a whirlwind. Between submitting Aiko’s Dive to #WriteMentor and the revision of Infinity’s Heir, I’ve barely had time for anything else (I almost didn’t have time to write this). The revision of Infinity’s Heir is coming along. So far, I’ve managed to get through half of the…
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The Anatomy of a Revision
Submitting Infinity’s Heir to Revpit was probably one of the best things I’ve ever done for the manuscript. Though heavily edited, it was far from ready for publication. Some fantastic feedback from the Revpit editors made that clear, but helped paved the way for the latest version of the manuscript. For better…
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Midnight Oil
I haven’t updated the blog since Revpit because I’ve bent all my creative energy towards the latest edit of Infinity’s Heir. And it’s coming along quite nicely. Since I’m no longer going to Canada next week, I should have time to detail a lot of what I’ve been doing to…
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The Saga of #RevPit 2018
I submitted Infinity’s Heir to Revpit 2018 on a whim. When I read about the contest, I had all but retired Infinity’s Heir. It wasn’t that I didn’t believe in the manuscript – I did and still do – but it seemed like one of those projects that languishes in…
