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Podcasting and plotzing

Sunday, November 3, 2024

It’s been a pretty intense year, writing-wise, since I last posted. I visited Texas A&M in Texarkana, where ENTRY LEVEL: STORIES was chosen as the All-Campus Read for 2023. I attended my first Jane Austen North America general meeting. I went to AWP in Kansas City, where I primarily just hung out with friends, people-watched, […]

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Happy pub day, Entry Level!

Wednesday, September 28, 2022

It’s sold out of Amazon and Barnes and Noble on pub day! What a weird and great problem to have. Your indie bookstores should have lots of copies available, and of course, there’s always e-books!

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How to get an editor to read beyond Page One

Saturday, March 12, 2022

Ugh, it’s so hard, isn’t it? You pour your heart into the page and then you receive repeated “no thank you” emails from editors and agents who clearly must have not missed your beautiful and lyrical words. Is it you? Is your breath bad? Does your manuscript have BO? It might be your first page. […]

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Let’s fill the Little Free Libraries in rural and underserved communities #nifty50books

Friday, June 11, 2021

Hey, it’s my birthday. Let’s buy presents for readers who need books. Happy summer! So, it’s my birthday this month. And while I’m struggling to age gracefully, I’ve been thinking a lot about the power of legacy and the marks we make on our communities and this planet. If you know me at all, you […]

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Wednesday, March 13, 2019

I am now more than half way through my PhD. I also did not pass my first attempt at testing out of the “language reading proficiency” requirement. Half way might be longer than it seems. In other news, in 2016, I started a thing, along with a co-founder friend. We asked some other friends to […]

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