Good news tonight! My editor has finished reading the newest draft of LITTLE GALE GUMBO (which includes a new ending!) and she’s delivered a hearty thumbs up! We’re nearly there, she assures me, which is wonderful to hear, because I’m due to deliver the final draft of the novel to NAL in a little over [...]
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LITTLE GALE GUMBO Status Report (with Cheese!)
Posted in fiction writing, Food, revisions, tagged cheese, editing, editors, Little Gale Gumbo, Revisions, track changes on July 21, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Revise and Resubmit
Posted in agents, fiction writing, publishing, revisions, Writing, tagged agents, editing, Revisions, writing challenges on July 9, 2010 | 4 Comments »
So, you finally heard back from the agent who has had your partial or your full. You open the email/letter with your heart in your throat. Your eyes dash over the response, catching every other word, hoping to glean the real message as quickly as possible. When you do, your brow furrows. It’s not a [...]
Age is just a number, right?
Posted in fiction writing, publishing, revisions, Writing, tagged character development, copy editors, editing, Little Gale Gumbo, writing challenges on July 3, 2010 | 15 Comments »
For anyone who has written a novel that shifts between the past and the present, it can be a tricky thing to keep track of time. I struggled for months to keep notes on the ages of my characters and the timeline of my story, a task which involved a level of organization that I [...]
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Erika Marks
I'm a writer and illustrator living in North Carolina. My debut novel, LITTLE GALE GUMBO, will be published by NAL/Penguin in October 2011.
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