I recently started querying my novel. After spending years to get to that point, it felt a little bit like spending years getting ready for a party and finally feeling ready to fling open a door. And so I flung….
I am from a small town by the ocean, and love to read about other small seaside towns (and all the accompanying secrets and drama they contain) so it was such a treat to be able to read Jennifer Dupee’s…
You start out with so much hope. All your friends are doing it and they said it was fun. It seemed harmless. Next thing you know you are setting up a Pinterest board with a plan for your book launch…
Note: Except for posts from occasional guest bloggers, Dead Darlings posts are written by graduates of Grub Street’s Novel Incubator program in Boston. To find out more about the program, click here. This advice is poorly timed because the “new”…
Being done with Grub Street’s Novel Incubator is a strange place to be. It’s kind of like being done with law school–sure, you graduated, but you aren’t a lawyer yet, and there’s that whole bar exam thing that is going…
You will sit down to write on a Sunday morning. Your final manuscript is due to your Incubator class in 22 days. The phone will ring. Your heart will sink at the Maine area code. It will be your father’s…