Author of lush, romantic fantasy novels.
Every year, I make a selection of NaNoWriMo word count calendars to set as my desktop background, and thought I'd share them with you as well! More may be added to the Google Drive folder below as November draws near. View all on Google Drive All calendars include three numbers on each day: top number… Continue reading NaNoWriMo 2020: Word Count Wallpapers 2020
(Logo in header courtesy of National Novel Writing Month). So it's October, which means the writing community is in a pre-NaNoWriMo tizzy of planning, anticipation, and hype. If you're new to NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), it's a month-long challenge to draft a 50,000-word novel over the 30 days of November. I've participated in NaNoWriMo… Continue reading 5 Things NaNoWriMo Taught Me
In publishing, it can be easy to feel overwhelmed by the sheer amount of industry jargon and abbreviations. I've listed some of the most common ones here. Acquisitions: This is a phase in the manuscript purchasing process, when the acquiring editor pitches your book to others at their publishing house in order to convince them… Continue reading Glossary of Publishing Terms and Abbreviations
In the buildup to Pitch Wars submissions, a lot of queries are flying around the writing world right now. And I'll admit, I'm a bit of a query junkie. I write them for works-in-progress as practice. I've read the entire QueryShark archive and listened to every Print Run query episode. I spent hours in the… Continue reading 5 Quick-&-Dirty Query Tips
Welcome to a new blog post series on tidbits of grammar trivia and terminology. We'll cover some interesting things you may not have learned in school, or might have forgotten since then. Today, gerunds! So what's a gerund? It's a tricky little beastie, a word that's based on a verb and looks like a verb,… Continue reading Grammar Quick Bites: Gerunds
Amy Avery / Avery Ames 