And Then, We Wait . . . and Nudge.

“The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.” – John Steinbeck Over the past year, I’ve slowly worked through my list of small or

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My Critics, My Friends

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” –

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Naked

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public.” – Paulo Coelho That’s exactly how I feel sending queries to agents. Naked. Even if I weren’t an off-the-scale

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Reality Check

I’ll admit it. I’m a daydreamer. Some days, when I don’t feel like writing, I imagine what it would be like to have a book hit the New York Times

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Pitch Lounge

Speed dating. That’s the best way I can describe the Writers’ League of Texas Agents and Editors Conference I attended in late June. Three hundred writers vied for the attention

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