Waiting … is anyone good at it? Yet it’s part of the writing life. Especially when it comes to waiting for a publisher who will love our treasured novel. The Waiting As my novel went out to publisher after publisher, my agent kept me informed. I prayed. My prayer team prayed. Others prayed. Yet months passed by. More than a year later, we still waited. I sighed and whispered. “How long, Lord?” Only he knew.… Read More
Talk about scary! Enter a writing contest along with so many excellent writers? Yet I was pretty sure this was the next step I was to take on my writing journey. So I prepared to enter ... The Writing Contest I was clueless. Only the Lord knew the wonderful surprise he had for me at the 2014 Write-to-Publish Conference. Years of effort had taught me to do my best with each writing project and take… Read More
Oh, if only we had a good agent. That would make all the difference! But what if after following all the advice and doing our best, it still doesn’t happen. Does that mean we’ll never get an agent? Not necessarily … The Agent Wow, Lord! Really? It felt like some incredible dream. I couldn’t have been more surprised. My left wrist still recovering from being crushed, I stared at the cast that had replaced the… Read More
In this fascinating world of writing, doubts assail. Especially when our beloved book manuscripts receive one rejection after another. The Snag Lord, have I waited too long? I finished my novel, this time without the niggling feeling that insisted something still needed fixing. I sent it to a published novelist who had offered to read it, and she declare it ready for publication. I then set out to find an agent ... ... only to… Read More