Juarez
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I just realized that I have been talking about my book When in Juarez, but I haven’t told you anything about it really. Here is the Prologue… This book is a blog I kept every day during Advent and through Christmas in 2012 when I was in the convent and sent to the mission, El… 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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So, there’s another fabulous online writing conference from Writing Day Workshops (http://writingdayworkshops.com). You can also have an inexpensive ten-minute interview with a literary agent. So cool. I am writing a memoir/creative nonfiction. I had a beautiful outline about the relationship I had with my superior in the convent. I got to the end of this… Read more
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