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Substack

Hello! Here’s another post from the great beyond to let you know you can now find updates on me through Substack. I’m still not abandoning my webpage because there’s so much history to it and I still love the look of it, plus I hope one day I’ll be able to add links to buy my books and such. But since I’m here, I’ll give a brief update. My book has been on submission for about a year now through my agent. In that year I have received full requests that ended in rejections and flat-out rejections, but no one has critiqued my writing itself. My book is still out there and I still have hope that Love, Sax, and All That Jazz will find the right home! While it’s been a year of this process, there are months that can pass by when someone is looking at your book before they give you a yes or no, so it’s a long game for sure!

I have been trying to work on a new book, but this time last year I found out I was pregnant with our second child, and she came in November, right after Thanksgiving! I’m still figuring out life as a SAHM to an extremely active preschooler and a chill baby and the time to write. It’s not as much as I would like, but I feel that when I do it and make myself focus, I can get some words down, and progress is progress. I’m liking this current project, a YA murder mystery with friends to lovers adapated from Agatha Christie’s Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?. I occassionally share snippets about it on my Instagram, where is the place you’ll find me most these days.

Delayed News

If you told me a decade ago that I would be writing my blog post sharing such exciting news three months after it happened, I would have been dumbfounded. But such is the sad state of my blog. But trust me, I’ve shared this elsewhere.

I have an agent!

*Cue confetti*

I signed with Stephanie Cardel of Lighthouse Literary in December, and we hit the ground running. Over the holidays and all through January I was revising, last month we sent our first round of proposals to publishers, and for now it’s just obsessing waiting and brainstorming/plotting/writing new and revised story ideas.

I have added a sign-up form on my About page for my newsletter, which I have been sending once a month since January. Get signed up to stay in the loop, since you know I’m not going to be prompt on here. Perhaps one day I’ll write out a “how I got my agent” post, but the short of it is that while I did not have to query long, this was a long process in terms of the years of hard work I put into getting this book in the best shape I could before I queried, wanting to be sure that I did not repeat my first attempt in 2017 of not being nearly as ready as I had hoped and believed.

I’m very hopeful for what’s to come. 🙂