Exciting News!!!!!

GUESS WHAT GUYS NO GO AHEAD GUESS DO YOU GIVE UP I'LL JUST TELL YOU

I WAS PICKED FOR PITCH WARS!!!!!!

And probably I shouldn't write this blog post in all caps, but on the inside I'm all AEKORJIRFANBJERHJFDAJRHEG

But on the outside I'm all SAHUIEFJOARJGAHRUEIGEARJEKGHEAEAJGKEALRE

So you can see that inside and outside I'm incomprehensibly excited.

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Thanks to the awesome and very wise Alexandra Alessandri and Dannie Morin for taking me under their collective wings. We have a lot of work to do in the next two months! They've been relatively quiet so far, but it's the kind of quiet a lady lion does right before she pounces, only when they pounce on my manuscript, yeah it will get bloody and torn up, but instead of then rotting and stinking and turning to dust it will emerge from the tatters better and brighter. Like a Phoenix!

Huh. I should write a book about that.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA DO YOU SEE WHAT IT'S BEEN LIKE IN MY BRAIN/BODY ALL DAY TODAY SO MANY EXCLAMATORY TIMES!!!!!!

Anyway, on a more serious note, I'll be blogging about my experience, including the buckets of knowledge I'll gain, so tune in for more of these shenanigans.

May your Red Vines ever be soft!

Pitch Wars Mentee Bio

Hello, Pitch Wars enthusiasts, Mentors and Mentees alike!

*straightens tiara* *smooths wrinkles from prom dress* *shuffles notecards*

I'm totally late to the game (yay, strep throat!) and there are a lot of mentee bios to read through, so I'm going to make this short.

First, a little about me:

• I'm a small town Idaho girl.
• I'm married with five kids. (So I've gotten reeeeallly good at tuning high, whiny noises out while I write or read.)
• I have a blue Great Dane named Hydra. She's bigger than me, but too lazy to do anything about it.

• I love corn in (almost) all its varieties: popped, cobbed, uncobbed. But give it to me canned, and you're on my Black List.
• I love to ride my bike.
• I'm dying to be on Survivor. I've seen every episode at least once. I have a killer strategy. And I attended an open casting call just last week, where I formed an airtight alliance.

A little about my MS:

• It's called RESONANT.
• It's YA Fantasy.
• It's about a girl named Tenny who has synesthesia, which causes her to taste music. (It's a real thing, guys!)
• It has phoenixes from Japan, China, Russia, Greece, and New Zealand who help mankind progress through magical (and tasty) songs that inspire epiphanies and strokes of genius.
• It has a fox witch.
• My characters can manipulate things by singing their resonant frequencies.
• Oh, and there's a best-friend-becomes-more-than-a-friend romance. 

Choose me as a mentee! Because:

• My story is awesome!
• But it could be even awesomer!
• I'm well-experienced with taking hard critiques and using them to make my writing even better.
• On a related note, I've very good at self-medicating with chocolate.
• I love making new writer friends.
• AND I'm ready to get this story out into the world!

Thanks for stopping by! Good luck to all the mentees, and many thanks to all the mentors!

*especially Brenda Drake, for putting this all together. Check out her blog here.

**and thanks to Christopher Keelty for the Pimp My Bio fun. Check out the other mentees bios here.

Hello There!

WriterBrained!

*sprinkles food over computer*

*peers at screen*

Are you alive, old girl?

I came to check on the state of my blog only to discover that something has happened to all my pictures! That stinks. Anyone know how to fix that?

Anyone still out there in the blogiverse?

No?

Perfect. More popcorn for me.

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