Author Update

This is the (new) writer’s life.

Happy May everybody!! So I reckon now is as good a time as any to announce it. I am officially out on submission!   For those of my faithful followers who don't know what that means--I'm looking at you Mom and Dad--being out on submission just means that my wonderful agent has officially started sending… Continue reading This is the (new) writer’s life.

Author Update

Is this really happening?

It finally happened. After sending my query letter and short sample to a long list of agents and receiving several polite yet disheartening rejections, I finally got a request from an agent to see the full manuscript. I remember it very clearly, rushing around the kitchen of the home I work at--daytime nanny, whoop whoop!--and… Continue reading Is this really happening?