February 11, 2019
Literary Nightmares
Dropbox limit has been reached Laptop battery dies Internet goes down House somehow already clean so nothing to distract from writing People who ask how’s the novel coming along People […]
June 12, 2017
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Publishing* But Were Afraid to Ask
To writers, editors and agents are like unicorns, magical beasts that hold the key to the publishing kingdom. My writer friends and I spend so much time speculating about these […]
March 31, 2017
When Stones Speak
“In Mexico City, there is a god under every stone, and when the stones speak, they are the memory of our people.” –Elena Poniatowska, in her foreword for Mexico City: […]
November 15, 2016
Failing to Sell My First Book
Between my retail day job, my social life and hustling for freelance writing gigs, it took a full year to write my first nonfiction book proposal. It was sixty-eight pages […]