by NatashaDeen | Jun 12, 2023 | Agents, Failure Wins, Writing
Kate and Michael sat down last Thursday to have a conversation about having an agent and what representation means. Michael mentioned a post his colleague, Jim, had written about questions to ask an agent. That post is here. (Thanks to Katherine Gibson from EPL for...
by NatashaDeen | Feb 7, 2023 | Agents, Events
The Writers Community of Durham Region presents ASK AN AGENT with ALI McDONALD Saturday February 11 9:30 to 11:30 am EST IN PERSON (Whitby) or ONLINE IN PERSON: St. Mark’s United Church, 201 Centre Street S, in Whitby ON Enter through the south-facing door of...
by NatashaDeen | Feb 24, 2021 | Agents, Author Questions, Failure Wins, Writing
Follow Up for TWUC’s Strategies for Writing Discipline There were a few questions we didn’t get a chance to answer yesterday and I wanted to do a quick follow up for those folks, as well as add a couple of extra thoughts to the question of creating and...
by NatashaDeen | Mar 13, 2020 | Agents, Author Questions, Failure Wins, Life, Writing
Thank you, again (and AGAIN!) for joining me for Forest Friday. What a great way to start the weekend. 🙂 I wanted to give you some visuals on what we talked about. PLOT SNAKE First, this is what a plot snake might look like: Red is in her room AND THEN her mom comes...
by NatashaDeen | Nov 5, 2018 | Agents, Query, Synopsis, Writing
The manuscript continues to confound me, and I continue to try to **not** be frustrated, to remind myself that all books and stories grow in their own time, that the plotline will eventually make sense to me…some days, I’m more successful at these attempts...
by NatashaDeen | Feb 14, 2018 | Agents, Book Releases, Writing
Announcement via Transatlantic Agency. ^_^