[Note the title of the memoir later changed to THE ONLY WAY THROUGH IS OUT]
The email f...
Snippets of experiences from my childhood living as a girl and moments of parallel in adulthood, as I re-experience f...
I once heard an editor from one of the Big 5 publishers say: “I’m looking for books that are both completely unique and exactly the same.” And she laughed.
I laughed too.
But now I've come to belie...
So convenient!
I attended my first HippoCamp four year...
Insert sad face.
If you’ve read my latest newsletters or you follow me on social media, you know that I h...
My essay “The Subaru Should Have Been a Sign,” went viral on today.com.
I still can’t freaking believe it.
In case you haven’t read it yet, click on this link.
Barb from Subaru Customer Service rea...
I am so sorry for the delay in responding to you! But I love your essay and I’d be happy to publish this on TODAY.com.
Ha...
Have you ever been brought to your knees by 300-400 words?
Truth be told, I have.Â
Ahh ... the dreaded query letter. A three-paragraph email sent to an agent or editor with a single purpose: to enti...
The road to publication can be long, as I've shared in a recent post.Â
It also can be filled with rejection and never-to-be-answered queries.
And then there are those moments like my client Sarah ha...
Today is the last day of Pride Month. Normally I'd write an upbeat post celebrating the LGBTQ+ community I'm now part of—sparkly rainbows and all.
But frankly, I'm not feeling very upbeat or sparkly ...
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