With Ulterior Motive at a friend's who is an editing whiz (she should do this professionally!) and the Gingerbread Man currently being reviewed and critiqued by friends/fellow writing colleagues, the question is, which manuscript should I tackle next?

It could take a few months before Ulterior Motive is back to me to rewrite, and same with the Gingerbread Man so querying them might actually not be feasible until beginning of 2012. Perhaps that's not a bad thing. With so many literary agent pow...
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Ever take an art class and you're working on your masterpiece, whether it be oil or pastels or even acrylic and you're just not as happy with it if you add just one more thing? Or you try too hard to make it perfect and end up spoiling the art? I feel like that's where I'm at with Ulterior Motive. Currently it's in the hands of three people; one, a writer, another an avid reader, and the third an English major (I'm a glutton for punishment), but despite this, I've already made changes after t...

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I have always said I write what I would want to read. I love the story about Caitlyn and Paul, the challenge of building believable characters who pop to life from the pages and creating their backstory that makes them relatable. In dumping the prologue, and bouncing ideas off my sounding board, Jill Afzelius, I decided to create a different, more relevant prologue from the point of view of a mysterious stalker.

Gone are the 11 pages that outlined Caitlyn's tumultuous backstory in a dream-lik...

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