I'm so pleased to kick off the guest posts on 1st Books with novelist Christina Meldrum and her debut novel, MADAPPLE. It seems I can't go anywhere lately without coming upon praise for this beautiful and compelling book. It has garnered well-deserved stars from Booklist and from … [Read more...]
On Your Way to the Incinerator
If you think writers are born rather than made and brilliant writing is recognized immediately, those rejection slips for your novel—or story or nonfiction query, or (heaven help you) letter to your own mother—can seem a daunting thing. The truth is getting started as a writer … [Read more...]