Sometimes I get a little bummed that I haven’t been offered a book contract yet. Editors at a couple of my dream publishing houses have taken interest in my proposal, but they’ve not been able to convince their teams to take on the project. My agent, Karen Neumair, is awesome and I’m still over the…… Continue reading On Writing a Book and Making Friends
Tag: writing
These 8 Little Words are Pushing Me Persevere
The flowers are gone, but I’m keeping the card forever. The writing part of my life was challenging this fall. I diligently researched and interviewed and wrote and worked on a lot of things that have yet to come to fruition. So many hours of brain-power with so little to show for it. Between September…… Continue reading These 8 Little Words are Pushing Me Persevere
The Backpacking Story that was Years in the Making
Four years after sending a query to Creation Illustrated hoping to write about my first backpacking trip, I received an invitation to write the story. Four. Years. (I’ve had to wait quite a while for responses to queries in the past, but four years is crazytown. ) It was worth the wait, however, because that…… Continue reading The Backpacking Story that was Years in the Making
This is What it’s Like When Home is Your Office
When your house looks like this and you need to get some writing done, but you are too much of a hermit to pack up and find a different location from which to work, you move a chair in front of a window and pretend that because you can’t see the mess, it doesn’t exist.…… Continue reading This is What it’s Like When Home is Your Office
Real Ink
I love writing for online publications. It still blows me away that I have the opportunity to write for TCW. But there is something special about finding my words in a real print magazine with actual paper pages I can turn with my hands. The enclosed check is pretty nice too 🙂