Tag: Flynn

Haunting Borders

ByRachel February 4, 2010 2 Comments
Yesterday, all I did for the entire day was haunt Borders. Borders is an excellent place to haunt. They have ready-made spaces for haunters--though admittedly, those spaces have become few and far between since they moved all the chairs back to the café section. They used to have chairs all over the place, but I think someone wised up to the fact that dedicated readers sitting in the café are...

St. Louis Area Writers' Conference, April 2010

ByRachel January 30, 2010 0 Comments
Just signed up for a writers' conference which I am pumped about. And not least because I actually have a friend to go with me this time! The Missouri Writer's Guild conference will be held April 16-18 in Chesterfield, MO. So if you're a writer in the St. Louis or southern Illinois area (or even if you're not but just feel like making the drive), come join us. Agents include Kristin Nelson of...

A Busy Week

ByRachel January 19, 2010 0 Comments
Pub Board discussions are going on this week at Written World Communications. It's quite an exciting time as we look at a selection of submitted work and decide which items to pick for publication this year. We're hoping to start the year off with a bang, and also to be diverse in the fiction we publish. We have discussed genres from romance to historical to paranormal thriller. Just have to wait...

New Year's Start on Queries, Editing

ByRachel January 8, 2010 5 Comments
The holidays are finally at an end! Between Thanksgiving, preparations for Christmas, Christmas itself, and New Year's, I've been off my regular schedule (writing and otherwise) for about two months straight. But now I'm back! And instead of making New Year's Resolutions to foster new and better habits, I'm focusing on the habits I need to get back into. Here's my list of things to do. I'll be...

Second Book in Trilogy

ByRachel November 3, 2009 0 Comments
Nano has begun, and so has my feverish dash through a first draft of FLYNN Book II. I find writing the second installment in a trilogy much different from writing the first. Authors usually have a clear idea of the story's beginning and end, but the middle--well--that gets kind of muddy. When written well, second installments can be the filling in the proverbial sandwich--every bit as good and...