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Query Bingo: For Writers in the Trenches
I am currently entrenched in the Dark Twisty Pit of Querying. For those of you that don’t know what querying is, I define it as the following: Querying (verb): The sometimes-painful, sometimes-disappointing, sometimes-exhilarating, and always long process of finding a unicorn-agent. You see, after spending a year or so creating a book-baby through blood, sweat,…
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Happy Guilt Day: That’s what I’m calling Mother’s Day
As Mother’s Day approaches each year, my husband and I have some variation of this conversation: “Why are you laying on the kitchen floor?” He asks. “Because I’m a horrible mother.” Geez, isn’t that obvious? “Okay.” He shrugs and steps over me to get a glass of Dr. Pepper. Okay? Okay? What! “Did you even hear…
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Dear Ben, For a Boy Who Has Two Brothers With Autism
Since today is the last day of Autism Awareness Month, I thought I would share a post a wrote a while ago. We have four children. The oldest three are boys. The eldest, Daniel, (age 11) and youngest, Gideon, (age 8) have autism. Ben, age 10, does not. Our youngest, age 4, is Katherine. Ben…
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