a.k.a. Good Food

One of the most exciting, and most pleasant, parts of writing is celebrating the success of fellow scribes. Lamentably, I’ve yet to break into the big time (or small time), but I have friends who now appear on the shelves of Barnes & Noble, Borders, Amazon, and our local libraries. Knowing just how [...]

I applied for the NYC Pitch & Shop Conference with hope, trepidation, and a total ignorance of what to expect.  After 4 days I left with a finely honed pitch, 2 reads and 14 new friends with whom to celebrate successes, commiserate on rejections and share advice, opinions, and tips.  Pretty good bang for my [...]

There’s a statistic that gets thrown around in the publishing industry — editors purchase only 2% of the manuscripts they solicit/read. This is a higher probability than being hit by lightning and significantly lower than the chance of rain tomorrow.
But who cares? Not me. I got offered TWO reads at the [...]