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  • Yeeeees, thank you for sharing! You state things so clearly that I can really nod too,...t my instincts as a paid writer (which have been set to "panic and desperation mode" for a few months) have been...
  • Thank you for your insight. As a currently unpublished author about to move into publishing mode on my first completed manuscr...
  • What a great space! Lucky devil, you! I have a space carved out at our dining room table where I try to find solace when my muse comes to visit. I keep a picture of my...
  • Informative post, Susan. I also read Zadie Smith's Changing My Mind and loved it. You say you found an agent, then you speak of an editor. I'm assuming these were two different people, true? If so, was the editor at the publishing house, or someone you paid, or. . . . ?Thanks.
  • I was a true recluse while I wrote my first book - my husband away working in Europe, four dogs and cats as my only company, our house basically an unfinished cabin in...
  • I've put Bleak House on my list several times, but never managed to crack the cover. I think it's about time. This summer I wanted to read books with exotic setting. I picked up The Last Time I Saw Paris by Lynn Sheene and Shadows on the Nile by Kate Furnivall.
  • Thanks so much, Joanell! Rally glad you found the post helpful. Let me know if you have other specific topis, esp. related to publishing with a bigger house, that you'...
  • I didn't want to go the self-publishing route, so I queried for an agent, and finally signed with one. At that time, I only had one novel finished and I did not put it...
  • Such a topic--and so many great suggestions. I'm interested in reading every single book. But, with the exception of Tonya's reading list, I don't see that anyone is r...
  • Oh Molly, but I have. I heard once long before I had kids that it's a kind of illness that overtakes new mothers at home--not getting dressed for days on end. Three an...