TNWT is on LGBTQReads!!!! Ooligan Press announced TNWT with an in depth blog about sensitivity readers. Read it here: https://ooliganpress.pdx.edu/ya-authenticity-editing/?fbclid=IwAR26JWtpdFbXbsLsFc7dpV1PZEfrGF4xoILLsyJoJYU8pE3i2ZqYzSvhfeU AND!!!! Brain Junk got picked up by KBPX 91.1 here in Spokane and now we’ll
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SCBWI Conference: Spokane
I’ve discovered a new favorite conference and — HOW CONVENIENT — it’s in my town, Spokane. This was the first year I attended this Inland Northwest SCBWI event and it was sublime! Why you ask?
Continue ReadingSurviving Revisions
You’ve landed that agent or found a small press. CONGRATS! But now what? After the kitchen-dancing high wears off what happens? A lot of things. Negotiations, signing a contract, “meeting” your team or agent. Some
Continue ReadingTHE NAMES WE TAKE
Dreams do come true! My book baby, the queer YA dystopian of my dreams, is going to be published in the spring of 2020 with Ooligan press!!!! I’m thrilled and working hard on revisions right
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Spent a great day at Portland State University’s Write to Publish conference, hosted by the MFA students at Ooligan Press. What a fun trip and I got to meet a lot of the press staff
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I had the absolute joy of hitting the exhibit floor of the American Library Association’s Midwinter conference. HOLY COW friends, $60 got me in the door and into an orgy of books. Football fields of
Continue ReadingStop! Query Time!
Two of the MOST invaluable resources for figuring out who to online date–wait, I mean, query…Ahem. Doesn’t it feel just a little like Tinder? Like this Agent? Swipe right. (Says the gal who never online
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