by A. D. Pauli | Jan 21, 2016 | Publishing, Writing
I sent out a mess of queries late fall last year, and so by now I’ve racked up a few rejections. I actually don’t mind rejections. So far they’ve been far kinder than the scathing, flaming reviews I used to receive on my fanfics. When I get a...
by A. D. Pauli | Jan 8, 2016 | Reflections
I know this video has been floating around out there for a while, but I finally watched it. I wept. In fact, I was crying so hard by the end that I had to go sit in the bathroom with the door shut so that my small children wouldn’t be alarmed. At the time, I...
by A. D. Pauli | Dec 8, 2015 | Between Darkness and Light, Writing
My spouse has been reading the third draft of book two of my planned Between Darkness and Light series. Apparently the changes that I made from draft two were good, but not enough. The beginning of the book is good, but only around chapter 11 did my spouse really get...
by A. D. Pauli | Dec 1, 2015 | Writing
After the tea dunking of my laptop last month, writing had been going very slowly for me. Part of that was due to writing longhand, so I bought a cheapo wireless keyboard. It took me a few days to get used to it, but soon I was ready to rock and roll. Except I...
by A. D. Pauli | Nov 11, 2015 | General
I’ve been reading a lot lately about #WeNeedDiverseBooks and diversity in publishing in general. It seemed to be a factor in the whole Sad Puppies thing at the Hugos, and now a certain segment is freaking out about the Star Wars movie (see Chuck Wendig’s...
