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Book Review: Eleanor by Jason Gurley
“If the sea that swallowed them both did not exist, Agnes would weep and invent it.” From Eleanor by Jason Gurley I just finished reading Jason Gurley’s phenomenal new novel, Eleanor. It’s inspired me...
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Why My Main Character Has Cancer
I self-published my first novel, DOORWAYS TO ARKOMO, in May 2014 after submitting it to roughly thirty agents. I heard back from about half of them, mostly with variations of this sentence, “we like...
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The Next Five Years
I keep three sometimes-updated blogs; three slices of myself, separated under unique domain names , neatly categorized with the help of modern technology. The first, and most important – the one I...
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Letting Sadness In
I saw Inside Out with my 11-year-old daughter last week because I love Amy Poehler and I doubly love pixar films. That was my purpose for going, but what I ended up seeing was something entirely...
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The Search for Meaning
Demeter Mourning Persephone “Human beings like to tell stories.” –Professor Peter Struck, Associate Professor, Classical Studies University of Pennsylvania I just finished an online Greek mythology...
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The Reluctant Hero
One key ingredient of an epic hero – the kind of all around good guy (or girl) that you want to get behind in any story, is their reluctance to be a hero in the first place. Luke Skywalker. Katniss....
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Work Is Personal
Last Saturday, the NY Times published an article titled Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas In A Bruising Workplace. I found the piece fascinating, horrifying and uncomfortably…familiar. I’ve worked at...
View ArticleThe Underbelly of Querying
For many aspiring novelists, querying agents and sometimes publishers is a requirement. Most big publishers won’t accept manuscripts from unagented writers and even if they do, you’re up against a...
View ArticleAn Honest Look At My Dream of Being a Novelist
I started writing my first novel about twenty years ago. It took more than half a decade to complete. Back then, I used to spend my lunch break in a tiny bookstore near my job (I worked as an...
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Doorways to Arkomo is On Sale Now!
Doorways To Arkomo is on sale now on Amazon.com and Smashwords. It was accepted into the Smashwords premium catalog, which will (eventually) make it available for purchase in the Nook store and on...
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