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On this date…

Posted on November 20, 2015 Leave a Comment

Well, 4 years ago today I finished the first draft of my second book. A year ago today, I thought it was going to be published. 11 months and three weeks ago, the book went from ‘we love it and readers are going to connect with it’ to ‘it’s unpublishable’, so I went from ecstatic soon-to-be […]

It can happen in a flash

Posted on April 21, 2015 Leave a Comment

And just like that, a solution that’s been plaguing me for a year has popped into my mind. I’ve been thinking a lot about TDBD, and whether it is worthwhile pursuing completion on a story that stopped having meaning for me during The Unfortunate Events with the Publishing Company. I knew something was off with the […]

(In)Tense under pressure.

Posted on December 9, 2014 2 Comments

I’m in the middle of edits for The Book and so far it’s been eye opening on so many levels. It isn’t hearing ‘we don’t like this’, or ‘this needs to be changed’ that I have trouble with – that’s to be expected; it’s the deadlines. In my normal job, I deal with deadlines every […]

It’s a funny thing..

Posted on November 10, 2014 Leave a Comment

It’s a funny thing when given time. I recently finished a long stretch of work – and for me and the career I’ve chosen, I count the blessings that come with that, believe me. Every weekend when I was prepping scripts we were due to shoot, all I could think was, “I wish I […]