“God, I can’t do this. I can’t make this story work.” I’d reached that point in the rough draft where everything seems hopeless. The characters feel flat; the plot twisted beyond help. I’d been there with Mistaken. I’d pushed through it with Out of the Ruins (Book 1 of the Golden Gate Chronicles, releasing in … Read More
Most authors will tell you, the road to publishing is long and slow. They’re right. You write your heart out, and then you wait. And wait. And W-A-I-T. There’s much to do during the wait–editing, revising, submitting, recovering from rejections, rewriting, submitting again, learning, praying, hoping. And sometimes when the drought ends . . . … Read More
I laughed out loud the other day when I read a Facebook post from another writer who mentioned being sucked into the “black hole” of historical research. It’s a pull I’ve been fighting myself. Somehow, when I read historical fiction, it never dawns on me the hours that writers put into getting the historical background … Read More