• I received a much needed pick-me-up today – an email from a publisher requesting the full manuscript for my recently finished literary [...]

  Full manuscript request for literary novel

  December 8, 2020
• January is just past the halfway mark and already I’ve received my first novel manuscript rejection for the year. Hurrah! I say that of [...]

  Keeping hope alive when submitting a novel manuscript

  January 19, 2019
• Since my last post, I’ve been adrift on the endless sea that is the submissions process. While it may be a calm sea so far, I can’t [...]

  Rejection letters: the road to novel publication

  July 13, 2018
• It has been a while since my last post, mainly because my maternity leave ended in April; my writing took a temporary back seat while I got into [...]

  Novel submissions and tackling the slushpile

  May 21, 2018