As an update – I’m swamped with some work things right now, so I will be blogging again regularly next week. Thanks!
Congrats to…
Congratulations to fellow ACFW/OCW member, Jill Williamson. for her one-sentence pitch winning in literary agent Rachelle Gardner’s contest – see full post here. Also, one of my fellow critique partners was an honorable mention! I’m so proud – out of 500 submissions! A one-sentence pitch is often the most important and most difficult part of selling a manuscript. It must be concise but convey the important parts of the entire novel. Try to cut 80,000 words into 25. It’s tough. These are just more pieces in the novel writing process! Again, congrats!
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Caution: Changes Ahead
Nothing is for certain. Except uncertainty. The same is true for the creative process of writing. In the past few weeks, I’ve received some reader feedback, critique group feedback and contest judge feedback. That’s a lot of feedback to take in all at once. So, after several weeks of thinking, musing, planning, re-planning, re-working and tweaking the novel in my head over and over, I have come up with several important changes to my manuscript and possibly my career. Truth Unbecoming, the novel I wrote during National Novel Writing Month this past November, is soon to be re-titled and cast into a new genre of Historical fiction. There are also...
Review: She Walks In Beauty
Summary: For a young society woman seeking a favorable marriage, so much depends on her social season debut. Clara Carter has been given one goal: secure the affections of the city’s most eligible bachelor. Debuting means plenty of work–there are corsets to be fitted, dances to master, manners to perfect. Her training soon pays off, however, as celebrity’s spotlight turns Clara into a society-page darling. Yet Clara soon wonders if this is the life she really wants. Especially when she learns her best friend has also set her sights on Franklin De Vries. When a man appears who seems to love her simply for who she is and gossip backlash...
For Memorial Day
This Memorial Day, let’s all take a moment to pause. Yes, this is a day off for many – but let’s remember those who are overseas and who have served our country without question. This is more than some excuse to sleep in or get to that to-do list at home. This is a meaningful day in our year in which we are meant to observe. Two years ago, I went with my then-fiance and his family to see his grandfather’s flag flown at the military cemetery in which he is buried. The sky was as blue as could be and the American flags flew high and proud that day....