So…like many MFA students, I end up with a lot of books I need to get rid of, and I always forget to sell them back (mostly because I’m lazy and don’t want to take them to campus at the end of the semester). I’ve gained quite the collection of books that I would be [...]
This is just one of those sites that every writer should have in their arsenal. Whether you’re one of the lucky ones that has your query letter reviewed, or you just learn from other people’s mistakes, it’s been the best place I’ve found for learning more about query letters. Every one of my professors has [...]
Cammie goes to visit Macey in Boston, where she is with her family on the road to the Presidential election. While following Macey’s agenda, the girls—and the potential First Son, Preston—get cornered on the roof, and attacked. Cammie gets Preston to safety, she and Macey drop down a laundry shoot, and all is fine. Fine [...]
In case you can’t tell, these little blurbs come to you when something happens in my workshop I don’t agree with.
Last night a classmate brought in a piece of YA Christian Fiction. This particular piece was slightly heavy-handed, but nothing a little clipping here and there couldn’t fix. It’s still a rough draft.
As soon as [...]
This is just a quick little plug. My other web project, besides this domain, is webmastering for Litterbox Magazine, a hodge podge online literary magazine that enjoys a wide range of subject matters and literary forms.
Issue 7 was posted today, with some of the best submissions we’ve had yet, so go ahead and give it [...]
It’s really rather unfair to count this as one of this year’s books. In truth, I read the majority of it last year, sometime around May or June. But seeing as Laurie R. King’s The Moor is set in and around Baskerville Hall, I felt it necessary to pause and give Conan Doyle his due. [...]
This week I’m featuring a blog I discovered just a few days ago, Deadline Dames. Recently, I added Devon Monk to my LiveJournal friends list, and she referred to the other blog she writes for, saying an ARC of Magic on the Storm was up for grabs on Deadline Dames. Well, that caught my attention [...]
This one, honestly, isn’t all that insightful. However, I found myself in my workshopping class again, working over three very different pieces. One was a short vignette length experimental piece that I found very entertaining. Another was a longer melancholy piece about family discord. The final one was a very long piece that included crass [...]
I feel slightly guilty because I am not 100% up and current with the Mary Russell books, but when there was an offer on GoodReads for 75 ARCs, well…I couldn’t resist! And what do you know! With a .5% chance of getting one, I did! I couldn’t believe it!
So, in the upcoming weeks, God of [...]
And so I finished the second Gallagher Girls book, Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy by Ally Carter. I can’t say a review of this book would be all that different from my review of the first one. However, I can still give a pretty firm opinion of what I liked better and what [...]
