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Last week I posted some tools to help writers embarking on the search for an agent to represent their work. Today, I’d like to make a sort of addendum to that post, because over my years in the writing community, … Continue reading
Category Archives: Writer At Work
I’m seeing “start querying agents” and “find representation” in a lot of the new year’s goals posts on my friends list. Having just gone through the process last year, I know how much fun (ha!) that diving into the agent-search … Continue reading
I’d have to say this past weekend was a pretty spectacular one. Why? 1) Darklit Fest on Saturday was super fun–discussing YA lit with Kelley Armstrong, Rob Weston, and Joel Sutherland (who also did an amazing job organizing the whole … Continue reading
I turned in my first revision of THE WAY WE FALL a week ago, but it doesn’t feel like my schedule has gotten any less crazy! First, I headed off to New York for four days to meet my wonderful … Continue reading
When you write, do you write out of order or chapter by chapter as the story unfolds? I always write in narrative order (so, the order I want things come up in the story, which isn’t necessarily chronological order due … Continue reading
(or any other sort of retreat for that matter) I know there are a lot of writers who’d like to attend a retreat, or attend more retreats, but find it hard to make it to or afford the bigger ones … Continue reading
Before I sent my most recent book off to my trusty beta readers, I had a bunch of fact and detail-checking to do, things I hadn’t wanted to stop writing to look up or couldn’t look up once I was … Continue reading
For the second time this month, I’m back! This time from my in-person critique group’s fourth annual writing retreat. 🙂 The five of us who were able to make it convened at a cottage just east of Parry Sound, which … Continue reading
As promised, the final report on my trip to Nova Scotia! There was a lot of driving in the last couple days, but on pretty quiet roads, so I didn’t mind. The best part was having Chris put on my … Continue reading
Yesterday was quite a fun day, as we mostly just wandered around wherever looked interesting on our way down to our next stayover stop. The first place we came across was Ovens Natural Park, which focuses on the cliffs and … Continue reading