Genre: Fiction Copyright: 2013 To better my own query-writing skills, I've taken to reading the back of books and the side flap of book jackets. The Cuckoo's Calling was one of the books that I processed at work. The plot sounded interesting, but not unlike every other hard boiled murder mystery. I almost passed it … Continue reading Book Review: The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith (5/5)
Rejection Blues
I'm a writer; rejection comes with the territory. I'd like to say that each rejection gets easier to take, but they don't. In my mind, I am a better writer than I was when I began querying agents. So shouldn't be ratio of requests and rejections be better? It's not. Each rejection sends a urgent … Continue reading Rejection Blues
Book #1
We've all got that book that made us like books. It's the first book we read on our own, outside of school, cover to cover, and between those magical pages, something clicked. Something inside bloomed and came alive and we knew we'd stumbled onto something incredible that we'd never forget.