I elected to remain anonymous in the entry, but the current version of my query letter for All's Fair is on Jodi Meadows' (jmeadows) blog today as part of her weekly Query Project. Check it out if you're interested!

On that note, Jodi is a super-friendly, awesome writer, and you should all read her debut YA novel, INCARNATE, forthcoming from Katherine ( Read more... )

I did it. I closed my eyes, held my breath, and hit "send" on my very first query letter for All's Fair, with Eric sitting there cheering me on.

This one was a gift. My 140-character pitch was an honorable mention in Shelley Watters' Twitter Pitch Contest (that neat one I posted about), which earned me an invitation to query agent Suzie Townsend ( Read more... )

It took awhile--I've been working on this revision pass since late October--but at about 4 AM this morning, I finished the major revisions on All's Fair ( Read more... )

I'm super excited to watch the Baker's Dozen Agent Auction unfold on Authoress Anonymous's blog. Agents are just short of an online version of hair-pulling when it comes to getting the projects they're interested in. I'm happy for the writers who were selected for the auction (only 40 out of, I believe, 300 submissions actually emerged from the ( Read more... )

My parents and Eric have been reading All's Fair, and it seems the pacing is off... and I'm not sure how to fix it. But the good news is that the characters and dialogue are great. So, basically, I just need to clean up the plot. Which isn't the easiest part, but I've always sort of known something like this might happen: I get all super-confident ( Read more... )