• Five Surefire Ways to Win the Waiting Game

    So, you’ve written a perfect manuscript, polished it up and prepped stellar query letters. Those little birds have flown the coop and landed in the hands of capable agents or publishing houses for consideration. Now what? The dreaded waiting game. Agents and publishers receive hundreds to thousands of queries every year. All those letters, synopses and writing […]

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  • Keeping the novel(ty) from wearing off

    The past five months (has it really only been five months?!), I’ve been writing and editing my debut novel, Rising Son.  It all started with a tiny, itsy bitsy, minuscule story grain that smacked clear into my dendrites one late fall day last year.  That granular seed became a single character trait, which eventually grew into […]

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