Tag: one ya author’s journey to publication

  • Ohioana Book Festival

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    This is me at the Ohioana Book Festival – Fall 2011 – talking about my debut novel, The Tension of Opposites.

  • A Girl & Her Writer’s Block

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    I’m often asked how I handle writer’s block. It’s easy to answer that question when I’m not currently struggling through a chapter that isn’t quite ready to be written – I usually say that I simply write through a block. Because that’s an easy answer, I figured that right now, in this very moment, while I’m…

  • Launch Week Fun!

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    My debut novel, The Tension of Opposites, launched exactly one week ago – on May 25th, 2010. It was a crazy whirlwind of a week, and I could hardly catch my breath. But it was good. Oh, so good! What did I do? The normal stuff a mother of two pre-schoolers must do – laundry,…

  • The Little Things

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    I’m finding that the little things have a tendency to get me all hyped up, making me feel so uncool that I’m not sure I should be inducted into this crazy world of authors. There are the obvious so-surreal-I’m-not-sure-they’re-really-happening moments like landing my agent, learning of the first offer on my book, signing my contract, seeing…

  • Offers, Offers, Offers Galore!

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    One YA Author’s Journey to Publication After almost a year of revisions, my agent finally told me that my book was ready for submission to editors. It was one of the greatest moments in my life. What did I do to celebrate? A five-dipper (chocolate ice cream, of course) Reese’s Pieces sundae at Friendly’s – add…

  • Submitting Pages to My Agent

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    One YA Author’s Journey to Publication In my series “One YA Author’s Journey to Publication”, I’ve written about landing my agent, my year of revision – the struggle – the pain – the ingestion of roughly one ton of chocolate. I’ve featured the four books that helped me find my way when I was so…

  • An Ode to My Favorite Books on Writing

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    One YA Author’s Journey to Publication After hooking my dream agent, I spent an agonizing eleven months on revisions. Now, I don’t know what’s standard or anything, but let me tell you that every moment of that eleven months felt like an eternity. Because I’ve learned more from others than I possibly could have on…

  • My First Editorial Letter (ouch!)

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    One YA Author’s Journey to Publication After nearly two years of querying, I had finally hooked an agent on my third manuscript! Several weeks after signing an agency agreement, my first editorial letter arrived. It was the weekend before the Fourth of July – 2008. I was still riding the high of being a writer…

  • The Call (Yes, THE Call. With THE agent!)

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    One YA Author’s Journey to Publication One of the most exciting days of my life was the day my agent, Alyssa Eisner Henkin, emailed me after reading my entire manuscript and asked to schedule a call to discuss her thoughts. I could barely contain myself! Could this call actually end with an offer of representation?!…

  • The Evil Editor

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    One YA Author’s Journey to Publication I’ve blogged about journaling, my most influential teacher, and the research that went into querying, it’s now time to take a deep breath and delve into one of the most painful steps I took while searching for my agent. I submitted my query to the Evil Editor. (gulp) In…