I couldn’t even begin to count how many rejection letters I’ve received over the years from agents, publishers, editors, and contest judges. How do you deal with rejection letters, if any. It look another six years before I had a book accepted for publication. I finished writing my first novel right when I graduated college-but nothing ever happened with it.
Practice, curiosity, voracious reading, and diligence are more important than any degree. I majored in creative writing in college, and went on to get a masters degree in fiction-but I don’t think those things are necessary to being a good writer. I started focusing mainly on fiction by the time I was in high school, and longer stories came more naturally to me than short stories. When I was younger, I wrote often and across a lot of genres-poetry, songs, stories, lots and lots of diary writing.
I wanted to be a ballerina until I was about 15 and was told I didn’t have the right feet, ever since then, I’ve wanted to be a writer. I love California, but my husband and I fantasize all the time about all the other places we’d like to live. I currently live in Los Angeles, the so-called “City of Angels,” it suits me (and Luce) I think. Travel and new beginnings are a big part of my identity. I was born in Ohio, raised in Texas, went to college in Georgia, and used to work at a publishing house in New York. Where were you born and where do you call home? The big stuff-the setting at Sword and Cross, for example, and the trajectory of Luce’s storyline-is all the magic that happens at the keyboard. There’s probably something on every page that’s more or less true about my life, but it’s all jumbled together with a bunch of fiction.
My friends and family love to read my books, call me up and say, “I know where this part came from!” Luce is physically based on my oldest friend Cam is loosely based on my husband my friend Amy is afraid of cacti (like Penn), etc. Have you based any of your characters on someone you know, or real events in your own life?Ī million little things are inspired by real details of my life and the world around me.
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