Chase Gamwell

Blog Posts

  • 2019 Resolutions

    Honesty time… I’ve been terrible at this blog thing. At first, it felt really cool to post a bunch of updates about what I was working on, but as I… Read more

  • Frantic Fall

    Hi again, everyone! As usual, it’s been months since my last update, and TONS has happened. Mostly, life has been getting in the way of writing endeavors. Work has been… Read more

  • June-pocalypse

    June was a total gut-punch. I got a lot of positive feedback from the #WriteMentor mentors, but I was ultimately passed over. For the most part, the feedback suggested that… Read more

  • 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… Read more

  • 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… Read more

  • “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… Read more

  • 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… Read more

  • 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… Read more

  • 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… Read more

  • 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… Read more