Postcards From Query Road. March 18, 2009

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.” 
Albert Einstein
As a struggling (but still-hopeful) writer on Query Road, there’s nothing to stop you from taking your car at one hundred miles an hour and plowing it into the next tree, as you gather rejection letter [...]

A Spring In The Desert’s Step. March 11, 2009

I think of my photographs as paintings, really. Place your pointer over the photographs to read their names (although, some are just captions). 
Like the fuzzy seeds of the dandelion parachuting off into the world, here’s sending you wishes of an early Spring.
 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 
Photos by Emily Murdoch.

The Scream Heard ‘Round The World. March 11, 2009

Partial Pancakes.
Not to jinx anything, but I recently received agent requests for my YA novel, The Girl Next Door. And, the responding agents are agents from my list of “Dream Agents”.
Did you hear that scream, and wonder what it was? That was me.
O-M-G.
Presently, the first three chapters of my novel are in an agent’s hands on exclusive.
I am so excited.
I [...]

Bless The Querying Writer. March 9, 2009

 
the deed is done
the gauntlet thrown
the friend of yes
the foe of no
and while their fate
in limbo goes,
bless the querying writers
in between
a rock and a hard dream,
wearing their stories
on their sleeves
and just returned
from imaginary lands
still warm to the touch
of their trusty pens.
 

 
Poem and photos by Emily Murdoch.