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If you celebrate Easter, I hope you had a good Easter. If you don’t celebrate Easter, I hope you had a good Sunday. Something unusual happened to me this Easter. I went to Mass. That may not seem like anything Earth shattering to you, but I am full of anxiety, which is why I don’t… Read more
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Submitting a manuscript is no small feat. They want just about as much of the book as they do with an application. When in Juarez is out there and has already been sort of turned down by one company. It’s all good, I love getting rejection letters, I don’t know what I’d do if someone… Read more
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There is a major Catholic publishing house that I was going to submit my latest book (“When in Juarez”) to, but there were many qualifications my work did not meet. So, I decided to submit it anyway and have a little fun with the cover letter and CV that they wanted. Hopefully I’ll get a… Read more
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I went from memoir idea to memoir idea to memoir idea based on my time when I was a missionary during my convent years in Juarez. I wanted to pull back on the religiousity of it to gain a wider audience. When I reread the blog, I liked it as it was and decided to… Read more
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Okay, so I went to Juarez in 2012 when I was studying to be a sister in the convent, The Sisters of the Lamb of God. They have a mission there for special needs youths and adults which is wildly awesome and has gotten even more awesome, but is not run by the Sisters of… Read more
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I can’t sleep, so I decided to do research based on my new memoir, “Shattered Rose Glasses” about the time in 2012 when I went to Juarez, Mexico to be a missionary at a El Manantial, a place for special needs youths and adults that my convent (which I am no longer in–whoo what an… Read more
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Two hours of sleep is enough. The truth is my sleep was terrible and I woke up with a panic attack. Don’t you love those kind of nights? I can’t imagine why I would have a panic attack, considering I’m pitching on a wing and a prayer in three days (counting today, since it’s only… Read more
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I’m writing a memoir and I submitted ten pages, which was all of chapter one, for critique night. As people were reading it, my brain went into my stomach because I saw wasn’t up to my standards and could have been written so much better, but that’s something that could be fixed in the final… Read more
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As I told you in “A Girl’s Allowed to Vacillate” I changed my topic that I’m going to pitch three weeks before I pitch it. I know, I’m like so smart. At any rate, I had forgotten I was bringing it to be critiqued to the Cincinnati Fiction Writer’s group on March 4. My deadline… Read more
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