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I have a MAGPIE…I’d love a RAVEN!
Don’t worry–I don’t keep wild birds captive in my home. All I mean is that I just heard some good news: Dear Authors, Congratulations! If you are receiving this email it means one or more of your stories has made it onto the long list for the Raven Contest. . . Pulp Literature is a high-quality…
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Putting myself out there…writing goals for Oct 2014 to Oct 2015!
Ok, a bit of a heart to heart post today, from one writer to another. Yesterday, I wrote about the benefits of journaling and setting writing goals. Today, I’ll show you what I mean by that. Here are my writing goals for my upcoming writing year: 1. Find a GOOD agent. 2. Write a new…
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SUMMER OF BLADES is one of three finalists in a novel contest!
OK, SUPER EXCITING NEWS! My novel, a YA Medieval Fantasy, Summer of Blades, is one of three finalists in a contest put on by Grasmere Publishing. The winner gets his or her novel published. In other words, I am literally two books away from fulfilling a dream–having a novel in print! It gets…
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Vandermeer on dissection for fiction writers
First of all, I picked up a copy of Jeff Vandermeer’s book, Wonderbook, and I’m having trouble deciding whether it’s a book about writing or a work of art–amazing! But on page 42, I read the following: To grow as a fiction writer, you absolutely must engage in some dissection of stories, your own and…
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Semi-finalist in Mary Ballard Chapbook Contest (Casey Shay Press)
Ok, for the past month I’ve been vacationing in Southeast Asia–Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore–and I just got back to Vancouver last night and already I had some good news waiting for me… I made the SEMI-FINALS for the Mary Ballard Poetry Chapbook Prize, put on by Casey Shay Press! This is a BIG…
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Writer’s Digest Contest Update: I moved up to sixth place now…don’t know why!
Ok, I got an e-mail from Writer’s Digest today saying that my literary short story is now 6th, not 7th place (although the prizes remain exactly the same…sigh…). No explanation of WHY, but I’m moving up in the world…
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Ace Made the Quarter-finals in the Casey Shay Poetry Chapbook Contest!
Ok, nail-biting time all over again! My chapbook of poetry, Kaleidoscope: Bright Lives, Broken, made the quarter-finals in this year’s Mary Ballard Poetry Chapbook Contest. That’s exciting, but that’s just round one. We’ve been narrowed down to about 160, and the semi-finals will cut that number drastically, down to about 30. Fingers crossed…