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Jul 7

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Writing the ALL IMPORTANT query letter

SO, you’ve fallen in love with an agent. Nothing creepy. You just check their twitter, facebook, instagram, tumblr and website a thousand times an hour and have their profile pic as your desktop wallpaper. Read more

Jul 5

I met my dad when I was SEVENTEEN

My parents separated when I was six months old and, when I was three, he left the country to start a new life with a new family in the US. Read more

Jun 30

How to snare a literary agent (be VEWY, VEWY quiet!)

Before I go ahead and blog about how to write a query letter, I thought I should (or would?) cover the process of submitting to an agent. Read more

Jun 28

When I was a teen… I stalked a boy until he became my boyfriend

I’m an obsessive person—just ask my mother or my husband. I used to collect pencil leads—jars and jars of them—as a kid. Read more

Jun 23

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How to find the RIGHT literary agent

SO you want a literary agent… (if you could still go either way, you might like to check out my previous post on all the good stuff about agents). Read more

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    DIALOGUE. You either love it (like Hemingway) or you loathe it (like me). Proust likened dialogue to stained glass and the prose around it like the supporting frame. For me, the prose around it is the frame, the wall and the whole GOSHDARN building. It’s not that I find writing dialogue difficult, but I tend … Continue reading HOW TO WRITE DIALOGUE WHEN YOU […]
  • RESPECT your writing (and the value of commercial fiction) February 10, 2017
    I recently watched La La Land (like three times). By the third time I was able to sit through it without bawling like a baby. It had a profound effect on me, which I wasn’t expecting AT ALL. This means you can expect to find more La La Land references in future posts, but, for … Continue reading RESPECT your writing (and the value of commercial fiction)