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Story proposal gone out… eep.

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

Approaching a publisher is nerve-wracking. Every single time. Even with an agent acting as go-between. 
I’ve worked on a cover letter, sample chapters, synopsis and chapter outline over the past few weeks, through many revisions–especially on the synopsis. Brevity, clearly, is not my strength.
I interviewed a subject-matter expert (okay, that was at a local pub and [...]

Short story contest–third place! :)

Monday, March 16th, 2009

I entered a YA short story in the WCDR (Writers’ Circle of Durham Region) short story contest, and it won third place! 
I’m very happy, because I like this story. I’d been working on it for a while, with feedback from my wonderful writing group and from Peter Carver’s class at Mabel’s Fables last spring. 
I’d also [...]