Friends, it's been a minute since I wrote a post about my life's happenings. Currently, I'm sprawled out on the sofa in our living room, laptop on my lap, fireplace crackling on Netflix (I'm loving all the fireplace options!), glancing at the blustering snowstorm outside between writing sentences. I have to venture out there soon… Continue reading LIFE UPDATE!
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Interview with Anne Baldo
This is writer Anne Baldo! Anne and I had a zoom call earlier this fall, and goddess was it a fun discussion! Anne is widely-published poet, fiction (short story/novel) writer who lives and writers in Windsor. She's an ECE by day, and a writer by the in-between, raising three kids and a golden retriever! We… Continue reading Interview with Anne Baldo
Interview with Ben Van Dongen
Ben Van Dongen writes science fiction. He's been writing in this genre for decades with some deviation into crime and horror, but he keeps coming back to wide world of 'what if...' that science fiction embraces. Ben is the author of five novellas in a series called Synthetic Albatross, and is a contributor in two… Continue reading Interview with Ben Van Dongen
How to Survive Querying
In my last blog post interviewing Ainslie Hogarth, we talked a lot about writing query letters. I gave examples using the query letter that Ainslie edited that I was going to submit to an agent at a workshop. Soooo, the workshop was this past Sunday...and golly, did I learn a lot! First things first: we… Continue reading How to Survive Querying
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