ABNA
I did it. I entered Gray Zone into the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest. Wish me luck, and send Gray Zone all the good thoughts you can spare. It is a Young… Read more »
Tag: Gray Zone
Pitching into the new year
In January of this coming year I’ll be entering the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest with my YA novel, Gray Zone. I’ve held off getting it published just so I… Read more »
NaNoWriMo 2011
What is NaNoWriMo, you ask? National Novel Writing Month, otherwise known as November. I participated in NaNoWriMo in 2009 and ended up with more than 50,000 words of Gray Zone… Read more »
Patience and thick skin needed
And so it begins again. That painful, tedious, humiliating process of trying to find an agent. With my first books I skipped this step, and went straight to the publishers. Since… Read more »
A new beginning for GZ
A short time ago I wrote a new first chapter for Gray Zone, the young adult novel I hope to have published soon. Here it is: Who knew a few… Read more »
Adding spice
As I approach the halfway point of the rewrites– What? Yes, I said rewrites. I know, I know. I mentioned earlier that I was finished with Gray Zone, but I… Read more »
Routines
Having a routine can be comforting. It can create a structure that clears away the debris–you know, all those pesky moments when your brain power is consumed by the necessity of… Read more »
Step into writing
I joined a writer’s group on LinkedIn the other day. One of the first questions I received in my email was about how to keep writing when you really don’t… Read more »