January 14th, 2010

Ready for Primetime

Last night I finished my first big revision of Hubris. There were only a couple of major changes: I had to do a complete rewrite of the critical first page, remove the second chapter and place its exposition much later in the story, and cut out about a third of one lengthy middle chapter.  I [...]

November 23rd, 2009

Third Time's the Charm?

Just as I was about to start my first read-through of Hubris (and still am), I received another partial request from an agent interested in The Northerners. I was just about ready to give up on querying The Northerners – I was even saying so as I opened the envelope, since I was convinced it [...]

April 13th, 2009

More on The Northerners

OK, I know I said the next post would be about my new book, but I thought it would be worthwhile to talk about my experiences so far in a bit more detail: the writing process, the learning-about-publishing process, and the submission process.