oooooo. it's gonna be a spectacular night! three women writers. there writing. them reading it. hosted by windsor's first poet laureate marty gervais. come on. it's PERFECT. i can promise you that the conversations had at this event will KNOCK YOUR SOCKS OFF. we're women. that's what we do. i'll be reading from my book...all… Continue reading Girls Night Out II – Kate Hargreaves, Melanie Janisse and Me!
The first 250
Okay, so if you've read my Anatomy of a logline post, you know how I feel about loglines. Guess what? There's a second-parter to this story. For the Baker's Dozen competition, I have to submit a logline and the first 250 words of my novel. Okay. That's good, right? I mean, because I can only say… Continue reading The first 250
Anatomy of a logline
Look, I'm not the first writer to say she doesn't like writing loglines. Okay, it's not that I don't like loglines, it's that I LOATHE them. I've spent that last three weeks working on a logline for my YA novel for the Baker's Dozen competition that I'm entering on Tuesday (like, two days from now… Continue reading Anatomy of a logline
VANESSA SHIELDS 