Never query when your eyelids are feeling heavy

So, I’ve begun querying agents. So far I have three letters out. I’ve been struggling to get them out amid major newspaper deadlines, and grading and commenting on student papers, a recipe for exhaustion if there ever was one. That doesn’t include making sure kids have their homework done and all of our clothes are [...]

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Who is a writer/author?

I ask this because on a certain network there is a hierarchy. Some writers are authors and some writers are members. In other words, there seems to be this standard of who is or is not considered an author. Being a little too caught up in building my ”platform” I figured I’d give the author thing [...]

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Score on the publication front

Well, it turns out a little piece I wrote called “The Power of Pebbles” will appear in the forthcoming Cup of Comfort for a Better World. That news came Friday as I was having one crisis after another. My daughter forgot her math book and her scooter, which she needs to get around to her [...]

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