Becoming an Author

Well, after over a month of anxiously awaiting news from my copy editor, I finally got my manuscript back!! She sent it to me last Friday evening, and even though it was getting late and I had to run a half marathon the next day, I immediately had to sit down and see what she […]

Well, I have some big news for my upcoming novel, Sink or Swim! I hired a copy editor last weekend – this is the FINAL stage of big edits! She\’s going to check for grammar errors, fact check anything that needs to be fact checked, and make sure I am consistent throughout my entire story.

“Great job tonight, guys!” Coach Tanner clapped as my teammate, Landon, and I clung to the side of the pool, still trying to catch our breath. “That was a tough set, and I loved seeing the effort you put into it. For that, I’m ending practice early tonight.”  I shot a glance at the clock

Well, as promised my editor got back to me this week with my manuscript and her feedback, and I have both good news and bad news. The good news is that she genuinely liked my book, and she said my writing was very smooth and natural. She pointed out a few weak spots in my

As many of you probably know by now, I\’m cruising at full speed towards becoming a self-published author. My editor started going through my manuscript on Tuesday, and hopefully by the middle of next week, I\’ll have her comments back to me. I\’m both extremely excited and terrified! I know there are going to be

Figured it was time for a little update on my book writing journey! In the last blog post about it, I mentioned that I was waiting for feedback from a couple of beta readers before I would be about done. For those who don\’t know what beta readers are, essentially they are total strangers who

I am so, so pumped and I have to tell y\’all why! This week, I finished the final read through of my first novel, Sink or Swim. I sent it off to two beta readers, who have promised to return feedback to me within the next two weeks, and as long as they don\’t point

Since I am now in the process of getting people to read my book and give me feedback on it, I\’ve had a few of those people ask me how I got into writing in the first place. I\’ve always told them the short version of the story: I\’ve just always liked writing and publishing

I promise not to rant or whine about what\’s going on in the world in this week\’s blog post! Instead, I want to share how excited I am that I think I am FINALLY happy with how the progress on my book has been going. I\’ve been working on writing it for almost two whole

Earlier this week, my parents and I had the opportunity to go see R.J. Palacio speak at Lake Area Tech. If you are unfamiliar with that name, she is the author of quite a few books, her most famous one is called, Wonder, which was recently turned into a movie starring Julie Roberts. Now, I