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
Category: Writer’s Woes
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.
Diversity in Books
This was a topic in one of my MFA classes this week, and I think it's worth talking about more. The commercial successes, Harry Potter, Twilight, The Hunger Games - the main characters are white and straight. The question is, "Where's the black Harry Potter or the Asian Katniss?" I don't believe in writing a … Continue reading Diversity in Books
