Following up on my last post about Read Aloud Day (which I’m embarrassed to admit, was over a month ago!), I wanted to talk about the road trip I just took with my family. Or, more specifically, about the audiobook we listened to during the […]
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World Read Aloud Day
Through one of the websites I follow, Novel Novice, I learned that today, March 7, is World Read Aloud Day. It’s being organized by LitWorld, a global literacy organization based in New York City. Although I’m glad my kids (ages 14 and 11) are such […]
Research
After my last post about brainstorming, I’m pleased to say that my most recent session worked. After a lengthy discussion with my daughter (involving large amounts of Valentine’s Day chocolate), I not only broke through my writer’s block, but came up with a new concept […]
Brainstorming
As I mentioned in my last blog post, I’m in the midst of sending out queries for my novel, The Fallen Princess. To distract myself from obsessing over my inbox, I’ve been focusing on my current work-in-progress, a young adult fantasy set in medieval Germany. […]
Query Fever
This is it. The second round. It’s been almost a year since I queried literary agents in the hopes finding representation for “The Fallen Princess” and I’m going to start the process again. Although it won’t be any easier this time, at least now my […]
No Regrets
This past weekend, my teenage daughter and I traveled to New York City for a quick girls’ get-away. One of our main goals was to see a couple of shows on Broadway, taking advantage of NYC Broadway Week (half price tickets!) and my daughter’s intense […]
Things I’ve Learned
It’s the New Year! That means I can’t stall any longer or use the holidays as an excuse. It’s time to take action on my 2012 goals. I need to send out queries for my completed novel and start a brand-new project. A new novel, […]
What Was I Thinking?
For Halloween this year, I made a CD mix of some of my favorite spooky-themed songs. As I was listening to it today (yes, I realize Halloween is over), “The Time Warp” came on. And suddenly I had a major flashback. When I was fourteen, […]
Halloween Memories
When I was a kid, Halloween was a little wilder than it is today. You went out to trick-or-treat only after dark and no kid over the age of 8 went with a parent in tow. Kids stayed out until 9 p.m. or until people […]
A Little Backstory
When I was growing up, I used to wish something exciting would happen to me. To be more specific, I was hoping for an adventure along the lines of the Narnia books, where I would go into a closet during a game of hide and […]