by Julie | Feb 22, 2010 | For Writers
About a year after moving to Nashville I awoke from a dream one morning with an idea for a novel. The story would be about a washed up country star named Kelly Grace Pickens who is ditched at the alter and ends up on a reality TV show akin to the Bachelor. And to...
by Julie | Jan 31, 2010 | For Writers
It has finally happened! As evidence by the fact that I received a rejection letter in the mail this week, and subsequently experienced no amount of self-wallowing, I have officially deemed myself the possessor of a thick skin. In other words, I have reached the...
by Julie | Dec 21, 2009 | For Writers
Last week I was at a church Christmas party and the topic of discussion turned, as it often does, to the apparent travesty of the commercialization of this sacred holiday and what we could do in our own families to bring Christ back into Christmas. Of course the first...
by Julie | Nov 5, 2009 | For Writers
When I finished my first manuscript I was awfully proud of what I had accomplished. It was sort of like when my first child was born and I took an over abundance of pictures and sent them to everyone I knew so they could see her and how absolutely perfect she was. So...
by Julie | Sep 20, 2009 | For Writers
After I finished the first chapter of No Holly for Christmas I decided to take it out for a test run and enter it in some contests. Then, if it didn’t do well I could make some changes, or scrap the whole project before I had too much time invested. It did...
by Julie | Sep 7, 2009 | For Writers
When I first realized that it was going to be next to impossible to get my books published I suddenly found it very difficult to walk through a bookstore. Even passing the book aisle in Target would send quakes of longing reverberating to my very core. How I yearned...
