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When Your Darlings are Habitual
Hi. How ya doin’? Good? Good. I don’t know what it is about Autumn that makes me want to blog, but I feel it in the air. And today I’ve come up with the perfect subject: Commas. I have found that I...
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So. Fed. Up.
Some days it just feels like everything you do to write, promote and publish your work is about as effective as beating your head against a concrete wall. And the worst part is, it’s not the agents you...
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Overhaulin’
So, you may have noticed a few changes going on around here. Don’t worry. It’s just a bit of site overhauling I’ve been doing in order to streamline my dual publishing careers. I will continue to...
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The Top 6 Things Writers for Adults Assume About Writing Kidlit
1) “Oh, I did that too for a while. It’s great practice for real writing.” Yes. Practice. That’s what I’m doing with my entire career. *Facepalm*. 2) “The market must be so easy for you! After all,...
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My Top Five Reasons for Self-Publishing
There seems to be a general attitude among many (read: not all), in the professional writing community that those authors who self-publish are “giving up”, “lazy”, or simply “not talented enough to...
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Media Page is Up!
Hi! Many of you showed interest in my adding a media page here, with links to my public appearances, interviews, and etc. So after a bit of research and deciding exactly how I wanted to go about it,...
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I’m Gonna be on the Radio! (Take Two… er… Three!)
Some of you may remember way back when I was a guest on Miraj’s Metaphysical Madness, talking about my middle grade kids’ fantasy series “The Elementals”, and its first book, Song of Spirit (which is...
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The Self-Publishing Myth
Okay, I’m going to be perfectly honest here: There is one myth going around about self-publishing vs. trade-publishing that I am tired of reading. Seriously tired of it. So today I am going to give it...
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Jessi’s Five Simpl(ified) Steps to Signing with a Big-Name Publishing House
I’m at the end of my eight-week wait to hear back from the uber-awesome-this-could-change-my-life agency about Dr. Fixit’s Malicious Machine. Monday will mark the first day I can nudge them according...
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Revisions Revisited
For the longest time, I have been struggling with the end of Dr. Fixit’s Malicious Machine. It’s been eating at me, and kept me from working on the sequel like I should have. A recent review concurred...
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I Get Knocked Down
… and… you know the rest. So, my uber-awesome agency rejected “Guts and Glory” in the end. I’m not entirely surprised. I mean, I was amazed that they asked for a full in the first place, all things...
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Innocence Lost
So the internet is all up in arms over Penguin’s new design for Roald Dahl’s classic, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. In case you haven’t seen it, here is the cover: Penguin maintains that the cover...
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My Top Five Surprises about Signing with a Publisher
Trade publication. It’s the Holy Grail of career advancement for many writers. I’ve personally dreamed of it for as long as I can remember. While most little girls around me where playing out their...
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Trying Something New
I’ve been looking inside a lot of boxes lately, trying to find the path I need to be on for my family and my future. The boxes haven’t held any answers. Tonight, I decided to build my own box. You can...
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The 2015 International Science Fiction Convention, Update Numero Uno
You know what Worldcon is, right? That obscure science fiction con where the Hugo Awards are presented? You know, the Academy Award for Science fiction that writers like Brandon Sanderson, Robert...
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