nerd girl vs. the real world
from my desk . . .
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The Story Accordion: Developing novel-length story arcs
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They’re long. It’s ridiculous how long they are, right? I was in high school workshopping five-page short stories and sixteen-line poems when I decided the time had come to write a Grown-Up Novel. Not one of the copy-cat novels I’d written as a kid (mostly less arresting iterations of Redwall or The True Confessions of…
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“Not a good fit for me right now”: Surviving the query trenches
querying literary agents It’s that first hurdle to traditional publishing. It takes years, racks up…
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Bye Bye, Birdie: A Farewell to Twitter
I loved you, you know. Maybe it was infatuation. I’d heard a lot about you…
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Feature article on disability access in public libraries published
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Get a sneak peak of Reasons to Hate Me in the Seven Hills Review
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Short story “Four Things You Hear” published in Cricket
The January 2023 edition of Cricket magazine features my short story “Four Things You HearR…