April 15, 2011

• Collecting Stories...

  Finally heard about my YA novel in the contest- it didn't win.  But surprisingly, I"m ok with that. I will start writing the marketing pieces and collecting rejection slips for it. It's one more book I have complete and it's my best at this point. It took a month longer than last years to get rejected. I tend to feel that means it got closer. But every year I submit a book means that every year an editor (or two or more) have to read it. I just have to write a book that is compelling enough that they remember my name- right? And like the book... duh.

  I've decided that there are too many issues in this year's book and I've already know what I'm writing about next year... being a young homeless teen. So... I'm collecting stories about homelessness- antidotal tales. Do you have one?

  Be warned though... if you tell me, I may use it, change it, adapt it, rework it, etc. So don't tell me if you want to keep it a secret. I know my main character's story already, but I was thinking about the stories she'd hear during her own journey.

  So... share away! Tell me a true story about homelessness... and in the next year, keep your ears open for stories for me, ok?

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