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Contest Updates
It was a good news/not-so-good news kind of a day. First, Together is Enough placed second in the contemporary category of the 2012 Golden Claddagh. While I didn’t get a request for a full manuscript,...
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Working from Areas of Strength
I’m currently working on revising Together is Enough. And as much as you try to fix problems during revision, you also have to work from areas of strength. The middle of the manuscript is a mess. The...
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Still More Contest Updates
I didn’t final in the 2012 Indiana Golden Opportunity but the comments I received on Together is Enough are so ridiculously helpful that I can’t find it in myself to feel anything other than excited....
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Giving Away the Store
As I continue to work on revisions, one of the problems with Together is Enough — and there are many, oh so many problems — is that in the first 50 pages, I pass up entirely too many opportunities to...
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Plot vs. Story
My day job is as a graduate student. In that life, I’m writing a dissertation on nineteenth-century popular American literature. The creative writing is an outlet for things that won’t fit in my...
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More 50-Word Pitches
Just for fun … Together is Enough: literature instructor Keira Smith feels like a professional and personal failure when she meets Brennan Daly, a sexy working-class professor from Ireland. Torn...
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The Stages of Hating Your Manuscript
I finished a radical revision of Together is Enough this week and I’m so very close to finishing Brave in Heart. So incredibly close. As a reward, I made the catastrophic mistake of picking up a book...
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A Look Ahead
The other day, I had a conversation with a potential critique partner. She asked, “What kind of books do you want to write?” I’m embarrassed to admit, I was a little stumped. What I eventually said is...
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The Call
It wasn’t a call at all, actually. It was an email. But you know what I mean: the moment you get an offer from a publisher. The moment you start dreaming of long before you finish writing a book and...
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From the Round File: Together is Enough
I’m not going to participate in NaNoWriMo this year. It was a difficult decision but I just finished a book and I’m on the cusp of finishing another non-creative project, plus there’s day job stuff and...
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