It has been an insane few months. I attended my grad school residency, which went very well, and am currently working on my second packet. (Going half time is the best decision I could have made, more on that later.)
In July I attended a writers and agents conference, and pitched my novel Moving on Nightfall to a big name agent. It went very well, and she requested the first 100 pages of my novel. Unfortunately, she turned it down after reading it, but I learned so much about elevator pitches, and pitching to agents, and query letters just from that experience. I also have a lead on another agent who might like to see my work.
I currently have 9 stories out to 22 different markets. (I gave in on my avoidance of simultaneous submissions, although I don’t usually submit to markets that specifically say no to them in their guidelines. I have also found one or two that state by submitting they have the right to publish it, that is another post as well.)
Clean Sheets magazine accepted a piece of mine called “Tumbleweeds and Highways,” to be published probably within the next 4 months.
So this site will be active again as I spend more and more time working on not just the writing itself, but also the marketing and publication aspects!
