July 2016

Saving a Manuscript

I know that some manuscripts just don’t work no matter how hard you try. For me, it’s one particular manuscript that I wrote just shy of a year ago. I’m on like version 10. I know some writers talk about doing upwards of 30 drafts. To me, that’s a bit much. It’s not that I don’t… Read more »

My first SCBWI meeting

Do you SCBWI? I do. Okay, I just went to my first meeting out in Madisonville, La.on Saturday. I had no idea what to expect, so I did the most logical thing I could think of: I convinced my husband that he wanted to go. He went alright. He happens to know everyone everywhere, so… Read more »

Write? Get an accountability partner.

As writers, many of us want the same things. We want to get published. We want that feeling of knowing we have completed something that many others dream of. While on our writing journeys, many of us also want critique partners. (I too have to round some new ones up from time to time.) But,… Read more »

An agent? For me? Pinch me!

Breaking news: Today, this happened: Really excited to announce @DifferentAshley has joined the @BookerAlbertLit! Thrilled to have her as my client <3 #soblessed — Jen Corkill Hunt (@Jen_Corkill) July 14, 2016 It’s true! I now have an agent, and I think we fit together fabulously well. I feel so blessed and fortunate to have hit… Read more »

Won’t you be my (bookshelf) neighbor?

This week on Twitter, I had a super brief conversation (after all, it is Twitter) in which I agreed that having diversity simply for the sake of diversity in literature is an epic fail. To be honest, I hadn’t even thought of this as an issue until the original poster’s tweet graced me with its… Read more »