This is the fourth time I’ve shared a manuscript with someone. My fourth book. You’d think I’d be better at it. The sharing, I mean. The handing over my little world I’ve created. The first time I handed over a story for critique, I panicked. To be fair, I was a freshman in college –Continue reading “Manuscript Swap”
Category Archives: Writing
Best Laid Plans
At the time of writing this, I have finished the manuscript for the murder mystery I had been writing and done one complete revision/edit of it. Then, I went through and created a reverse outline. This is a handy tool to see what you’ve got on the page in a manageable way – because 94KContinue reading “Best Laid Plans”
AFT: Cover Reveal
They say don’t judge a book by its cover, but let’s be real, the cover is what gets us to pick the book off the shelf in the first place. The city of Chicago is practically a character in All Falling Things, becoming the wonderland in which my characters attempt to find themselves, so itContinue reading “AFT: Cover Reveal”
AFT: The Art Garage
The Art Garage is one of the featured locations in my novel All Falling Things. In the story, it’s an old mechanic shop turned art gallery in Chicago – five stall capacity with the glass garage doors left in place, concrete cleaned of all stains and polished, and moveable walls constructed to section off individualContinue reading “AFT: The Art Garage”
AFT: Meet the Team
You’ve met Alice. You’ve met Stanley. Now, meet the team. 🙂 Along with my main characters, I like to cast prominent secondary characters. This helps me keep a specific image of them straight in my head as I write. I thought I’d take a minute to introduce you to some of those characters. In thisContinue reading “AFT: Meet the Team”
AFT: Blurb Reveal
All Falling Things was my first book, forthcoming from Scarsdale Publishing. This story looks at the threads of life – how something as simple as bumping into someone on the street can redirect someone down the right path. It is also an homage to one of my favorite stories, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Below, I reveal theContinue reading “AFT: Blurb Reveal”
AFT: Meet Stanley
As I talked a bit about in my last All Falling Things post, when I first thought up this story, I intended/assumed it would be told entirely from Alice’s perspective. It was her story. But then almost right away, another character demanded a chance to use his voice too – and suddenly, my book hadContinue reading “AFT: Meet Stanley”
AFT: Meet Alice
It’s sort of strange to still call this my first book given that two others have since found their way out into the world, but this manuscript, titled All Falling Things, was indeed my first completed novel-length manuscript – my delayed debut if you will. Publishing, it turns out, can be quite the lengthy processContinue reading “AFT: Meet Alice”
Writing the Introvert
I’m an introvert. I write introverted characters. People that know me are not at all surprised by this. While there are, of course, extroverts in my stories, I honestly don’t think I would even know how to write an extroverted character from their own point of view (like…how do I even get into their heads?).Continue reading “Writing the Introvert”
300th
It’s weird for me to consider that I am currently writing my three hundredth post on this blog. Partly because Dec 16, 2017 feels like a REALLY long time ago (the date of my first post). But also, that means that I have been consistently posting here every Friday for almost EIGHT YEARS? I’m sorry.Continue reading “300th”
