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Thoughts on the new year

2011 has been a year full of big, scary, and exciting stuff. I transferred schools at the very beginning of the year, leaving Geneva College to start attending the University of West Georgia, in my hometown. I finished about four rounds of edits on my 2010 NaNo novel in June, and started querying said novel […]

The first five pages

Venture even a little way into the world of querying and you figure out the first five pages of your manuscript had better be in tip-top shape. I’ve seen several agents comment that even if they’re unimpressed with the query itself, they’ll still give the sample pages a chance-after all, when it comes down to […]