Book Trailer: Children of Solitude
I love tinkering in Canva. Check out this book trailer I made for Children of Solitude, available for pre-order now!
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The Great Querying Project: Final Stats
I have always believed in transparency and frank talk between colleagues in writing, and this post is in that spirit. I have been warned posting this might mean some agents or publishers will permanently blacklist me, and that sort of attitude is exactly why that frank talk and transparency are badly needed. Also, I don’t
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Querying Agents & Presses
I’ve been querying agents (and now some horror presses) since last October in a renewed effort to get an agent and see if I can crack the “big” press world. It’s an almost impossible goal for any of us, frankly. There are fewer and fewer “big” presses and fewer on-ramps to get their attention. Agents
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Mood Boards: Contemporary Ancestors
Last year I made a few mood boards–two for the book, two for the main character–as part of the lead-up to a pitching event in which I was going to pitch my current writing project to various agents. The book itself is done, and now I’m just querying the hell out of it. In the
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Book Marketing: Frank Talk About Real Numbers
About a million years ago, I started my first author blog in order to talk transparently about book marketing and the results of various efforts. I didn’t keep that up, in part because it just took a lot of time, and in part because I do not sell many books and frankly I got embarrassed
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Book Review: T. Kingfisher’s THE TWISTED ONES
Are you reading T. Kingfisher? Are you devouring her books, perhaps physically, because they are SO AMAZING? Because if not, I think you might want to be! The Twisted Ones is set in a fictional town not too far from Pittsboro, NC, which is, in turn, not too far from where I live, so it was fun to
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Book Review: Living Queer History
In my final semester at Appalachian State I wrote a review of Gregory Samantha Rosenthal’s Living Queer History, a nonfiction work describing Dr. Rosenthal’s work to co-organize an ongoing queer history collection and curation project in Roanoke, VA. I absolutely loved this book and Dr. Rosenthal’s dedication both to shining a light on a quickly-forgotten set
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Book Review: The Lonely Letters
Last semester I wrote a review of Ashon T. Crawley’s book The Lonely Letters for a class in my Appalachian Studies certificate program at Appalachian State University. I submitted it to a journal and never heard anything back from them so I’m posting it here! I really enjoyed reading this book, and the ways it overlapped
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A #PitLight-Adjacent Post (A Day Late)
This year I participated in #PitLight, a fun, upbeat, authors-only social media pitch event for books we’re working on (or want to work on, or perhaps should be working on). There are a number of different pitch events, usually Twitter-based (though I’ve mostly abandoned Twitter thanks to its current ownership), in which authors try to
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Recent & Upcoming Virtual & In-Person Schedule!
I recently did a bunch of online panels in various places: I recently moderated a super-fun Con-Tinual panel about the films and cultural impact of Troma! (YouTube) I recently had the tremendous pleasure of being on a Monsterama Jr. panel about Cinema Vampires! (YouTube) This was one of the most natural, organic panel discussions I’ve
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