by MK England | May 8, 2015 | Editing, Fanfiction, Personal
Full disclosure: I have been a gigantic nerd for my entire life. My family introduced me to Star Wars at a very young age, and I immediately fell into reading all the extended universe novels, buying the toys, playing X-Wings on my bike, and otherwise revelling in my...
by MK England | Apr 28, 2015 | Writer Friend Features
This month’s featured writer friend is Randy Ribay, a fellow member of the Cherry Hill-based South Jersey Writers Group. I remember catching a glimpse of him at my first ever SJWG meeting when he stood up and announced that he wrote YA and had just signed with...
by MK England | Apr 15, 2015 | Querying, Questions Answered
There seems to be a lot of confusion out there about what literary agents actually DO. To some people, it just doesn’t seem worth it to give away 15% of their earnings to some random person–and I suppose that’s a valid point of view. I think for many people,...
by MK England | Apr 9, 2015 | Querying, Writing Process
Sometimes terrible metaphors help me understand things. Today, I’ll tell you why querying is like the dinner on your plate. (Wait, what?) Yeah, I know. Just…go with it. When I first started working on my query for Firestarter, my first novel, the process went...
by MK England | Mar 31, 2015 | Editing, Writing Process
I’ve only written two full novels, but I seem to have already developed a standard editing procedure. Both novels were drafted using completely different methods, but the editing process has been (thus far) nearly identical. Everyone has their own process that works...
