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Posted on November 14, 2022 Leave a Comment
If there is a good reason. During the past couple of weeks, I put a clean copy of Seeds of Power to the side and vowed not to open it again. I edited my query letter and my synopsis, but both need a little more work before I am ready to move forward. I decided […]
Posted on October 17, 2022 1 Comment
So it’s time to take the next step. I spent the past two weeks reading Seeds of Power one more time. I moved some commas and changed a few phrases. That’s it. And yes, I enjoyed reading it! I remember the scenes I’ve cut over the years—some I really liked and some that I’ll be […]
Posted on October 3, 2022 Leave a Comment
To get back to my writing goals. After a summer writing slump and a very busy start to the school year, I am finally catching my breath and ready to refocus on my creative work. I’m going to read Seeds of Power one more time and edit my drafted query letter. I threw out my […]
Posted on September 19, 2022 Leave a Comment
And I love where it takes me. I enjoy participating in Instagram bookish challenges, looking at my books in new ways as I try to fit the theme, or thinking carefully as I answer questions about myself or reading habits. I have to write less on social media than my usual writing projects, watching wordcount […]
Posted on July 11, 2022 Leave a Comment
At a busy year of book reviewing. It’s been about a year since I joined NetGalley, BookishFirst, and began to receive indie author ARCs from social media connections. Looking back, here are some thoughts on my experience: Reviewing books is so FUN! Being a bookstagrammer is an amazing new part of my life. I love […]
Posted on June 27, 2022 Leave a Comment
I’m in a writing slump. For the past two months, I have been editing more than creating new stories. I have a few manuscripts with beta readers so I have to—gasp—wait and put those projects aside. Due to the busy full-time mom and volunteer part of my life, I haven’t had the head space or […]
Posted on June 13, 2022 Leave a Comment
I wrote a short story. One of my goals this year was to try to write shorter fiction so that I could post a story to my website as a sample of my writing and a way to engage. Or so that I could submit to writing contests or SFF magazines. Writing short fiction is […]
Posted on May 30, 2022 Leave a Comment
Are important to figure out early. So here I am drafting query letters and researching agents and it’s making me think harder about genre and audience than ever before. I write fantasy novels, but what about subgenre? Seeds of Power is mostly aligned with epic fantasy while Dreamcatcher is contemporary fantasy. There are romantic storylines […]
Posted on May 16, 2022 Leave a Comment
Part II: Writing I’ve mentioned before that I started a fantasy story in college—and then life happened—but I always had this goal to finish a fantasy novel someday. I’ve written 6 fantasy novels (unpublished and being edited/polished) and have 3/4 of a 7th drafted, but the first book I finished writing wasn’t fantasy. The catalyst […]
Posted on May 2, 2022 Leave a Comment
Part I: Reading In first grade, when I was six years old, I was in the remedial reading group. My teacher told my mom to have me read anything I wanted for fifteen minutes a day all summer. It sucked, we fought, but my mom’s no quitter so I had to do it. And it […]
Beth Green 