“What’ so special about your life that you want to write about it,” one date said to me when I…
Tag: rejection
I can’t say I’m good with rejection. Outwardly, I think I project an uh, okaaaaay attitude when I get rejected, but inwardly, a…
When I was in the tense time of life in which I was sending out queries of my novel, I…
Rejection is a great teacher. When I was a journalist in upstate New York, I’d often have to ask tough…
[Dear Lisa Braxton] …Thank you very much for your submission. We appreciated very much the quality of your book—in particular,…
Aloha! I can’t believe it’s been a year since I first joined the Debutante Ball. Mahalo to the previous class…
I have two manuscripts in the drawer. Although they’re not actually in a drawer, and I have no…
Aloha I no longer have my computer or the bulk of my writing before May…
How will I limit this post to a reasonable length? The list of authors I fangirl…
Aloha. I started writing poetry when I was nine years old. I remember writing in bursts. I had a wonderful…
