(Written last night, typed up today) I just marched down to Hot Lips Pizza on Killingsworth. It’s little less than a mile from my house, and it’s the farthest I’ve walked in weeks. I’ve certainly gotten used to riding a bike again. Its been a long hot day though, and after hiding in my room… Continue reading Hot Lips Soda After a Hot Long Day
As soon as Clean Teen Publishing sent me a contract I read through it about five times, made sure I understood everything, gathered my banking information for direct deposit, filled out my tax form, wrote a bio, found a head shot, drafted a back-cover synopsis, and compiled everything else the Chief Operating Officer wanted from… Continue reading Lounging In Limbo and Why I Don’t Have Checks
Well, it finally happened. After six years of querying, hundreds of rejections, and three different novels, I managed to convince someone I should be published. I had a lot of interest in The Neverland Wars from a variety of small publishers on #Pit2Pub day, a Twitter event about a month ago that allowed authors to… Continue reading Audrey Lands a Book Deal
So it finally happened, give me the little writer’s merit badge I so excitedly earned this week. I managed to sell a piece for professional payment. Not token payment, not semi-pro payment, full-on full-price story rates. I can’t tell you how delighted that makes me. I’ve been thinking a lot about how quickly my career… Continue reading Selling My First Professional Rate Story
Alright, troops, I say to myself, We haven’t lost this yet. As I announced in my blog post yesterday, I just terminated my contract with my literary agency and canceled the publication of The Crystalline Princess. It’s been a long, hard ride. My friends tell me I should take a break, relax a little, and… Continue reading The Battle Plan for the New Year
…it’s nice to have one, but only if you have the right one. What took me the duration of my teenage years to figure out about personal relationships, I realized in the course of a year with my professional relationships. I just terminated my contract. Yesterday morning I was on track to publish an ebook… Continue reading Literary Agents are like Boyfriends
“If your dreams don’t scare you, they aren’t big enough.” – Lowell Lundstrum I don’t know who he is, I just know he’s right. Sometimes the only thing that tells me that I’m still on the right track is that I am deathly afraid of what is coming my way. It all seems to be… Continue reading As the Day Draws Nearer…
AUDREY GREATHOUSE 