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February 2020 Recap

| March 3, 2020

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 159 Acceptances received: 3 Rejections received: 86 Stories withdrawn: 3 (+2) Resubmissions: 79 New Submissions: 1 Stories out at the end of the month: 144 February was slightly slower than normal on the number of rejections I received and the number of resubmissions that […]

Synopsis Construction

| March 2, 2020

Since I’ve been working on my synopsis for a novel recently, I’ve put a lot of thought into how to construct a synopsis. Thankfully, a lot of other people have thought about this too! Shalee McArthur offers a five-step plan for writing a synopsis that I’ve found helpful, particularly for coming up with a short […]