So excited to finally announce my book deal! Khalil and Vanessa coming to you in fall 2021.
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Publisher’s Marketplace!
Mentorship Programs
Paying it forward. 2018 was a major year for me. Ten years after penning the first words of my first novel, I finally signed with a literary agency! It took months for me to accept that my dream had come true and to give myself permission to believe that I was a real, agented author.…
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Transatlantic Client
I signed! I have an agent! There will be more details in another post, but for now, please enjoy this wonderful announcement from the Transatlantic Literary Agency!
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PitchWars & Consistent Feminism
There has been a mighty kerfluffle. Founder Brenda Drake announced that there would be an entry fee for PitchWars on April 2nd (I guess? She has since returned to a no-fee policy). And, people had feelings. I’m one of those people. This post is about my experience as a 2017 mentee. I’m sharing because the…
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This blog’s hiatus has been brought to you by Major Life Changes and Impostor Syndrome.
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It’s not always physical
Originally posted on Defining Yellow:
Sometimes we think that just because someone isn’t physically touching us that it’s wrong to say they are abusing us. So many times we are being abused emotionally and we don’t even notice it because we are gradually sucked into it. It’s not just by our significant others either, it could…
Remembering our successes
We tend, especially we women, to focus on the negative so much that we forget our personal successes. There could be a number of reasons why, but that’s not the focus today. I’ve been beating myself up particularly viciously for not being more consistent here, and in my personal goals (working on my novels, physical…
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Angela’s Story
Ask three people about Angela Davis, and you’ll probably get four or five different descriptions. Feminist? Communist? Criminal? Scholar? Vice Presidential Candidate? If nothing else, she’s a #blaxit superstar. Her escape and the wisdom she brought back had a powerful impact on societal discourse in the United States. Born black and female in Birmingham,…
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Good Sex for Girl Power
“…once women begin thinking about sexual pleasure, things get particularly terrifying. It begins with sexual parity and ends… where? What will women want after orgasmic equality? Equal opportunity? Equal pay? Equality, full stop? (Answer: All of the above.)” Sarah MacLean’s article in Bustle, “Bashing Romance Novels is Just Another Form of Slut-Shaming” gave me life.…
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