Posted in Church Year, Writing on Feb 16th, 2010
Today is Shrove Tuesday or, if you live in New Orleans, Mardi Gras. Tonight, my kids and I will go to church and eat pancakes, a traditional last hurrah of a meal before the austerity of the Lenten fast begins tomorrow.
This year, instead of fasting from some kind of food (though my kids once [...]
Once more, this agent seemed like a good fit. On paper anyway. She’s especially interested in mature YA. She’s drawn to historical and fantasy stories. She likes foreign environments when writers evoke them perfectly and enjoys books that delve into the complexity of relationships. She prefers things that are more on the literary side of [...]
Posted in Writing on Jan 15th, 2010
Recently an editor I worked with called me a writer sipping coffee. He included himself in this delightful epithet, but somehow “editor sipping coffee” just doesn’t have the same ring. It lacks that connotation of clueless self-absorption and artistic egotism inherent in the phrase “writer sipping coffee.”
Though I confess I was at first hurt and [...]