I'm so tired of all the writing rules.
"Don't do this", "Don't do that", blah blah blah...
You know what? I'll do what I want.
My book. My story. My characters.
If I'm not allowed to write however I want, how am I supposed to have my own voice as an author?
There IS an audience for me and my stories/poems, even if it's not a big one, and I don't mind.
“30 is so old.” you’ve only been here for three decades. in two of them, you couldn’t drink, rent a car, or even be fully responsible for yourself. please wake up. you are a FRESH flower in the garden of life
14 years ago this month, I sent out my first queries to agents.
Since then:
Five shelved books
Hundreds of rejections
Nine years
And then:
Agent offer
A book trilogy deal
NYT bestseller
Six foreign translations
Another book deal
A film announcement
A screenplay
I've been told my protagonist needs to be more flawed...
I'm struggling with this a little.
Are there any flaws I can slot in without redesigning her character completely?
But as a writer who wants to sale her books, I’m also an entrepreneur. It’s insane that I didn’t come to this realization sooner. But I’m here now. No, I’m not crazy. Yes, publishing today is more intense and more competitive than ever before…
The book community would not be anything w/o our artists, our designers, our narrators and/or everyone else involved in making these books happen. If you use gen AI, you’re announcing your lack of respect and solidarity for everyone involved. So why would any of us buy your book?
It is wild I came to have the author career I have today. Never in a million years would I thought it possible.
I had people tell me my writing was bad, an unsupportive mom who dismissed my writing at its earliest stages, and no access to books growing up.
Yet here I am with 18 books under my name and all of you wonderful people