Programmer, Writer, Mom
Posted in Writing/Reading on Oct 28th, 2009
I recently attended SIWC and had a pitch session with a NY Editor of an established pub. Here is the piece of paper I took into the session. Pitch: My story, The Backup, is about Maggie, a computer whiz. She stoops to lowly computer repair gigs on craigslist to pay the bills. When her dumb-ass [...]
Posted in Writing/Reading on Oct 25th, 2009
A Writers Conference I have never been to a Writers Conference so I didn’t know what I was in for. Sure the sessions and speakers were posted on the site, but you never really know until you go, right? A year ago I started asking every writer I could find locally and asked for a [...]
Posted in Writing/Reading on Sep 3rd, 2009
My 50K word novel is about a computer programmer who is a widowed mom living in a small town in the northwest. While trying to raise her four year old daughter, working for her uppity cousin, and living in the same town as over fifty relatives, she stumbles into a plot to blow up a [...]