blog archive
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The Story Accordion: Developing novel-length story arcs
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…
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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 several dozen gigs of email storage, and makes all authors cry at least…
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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 in grad school. You’d just come on the scene, and friends of mine…
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Feature article on disability access in public libraries published
For my latest Publishers Weekly article, “Access for All at the Public Library,” I interviewed librarians from around the country about how they welcome disabled people to use…
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Get a sneak peak of Reasons to Hate Me in the Seven Hills Review
Great news! If you can’t wait to get your hands on a copy of my YA Contemporary novel Reasons to Hate Me, you can read the first few…
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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 Hear”! If you don’t have a subscription, you can buy a copy of the…
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