How I Got My Literary Agent
BOOKS ARE PORTALS In the fourth grade, I was obsessed with R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps. I remember the pleasure of running my fingers across the raised lettering of the logo, and imagining…
November 7, 2022
How To Get A Bookbub Promotion
This article was originally published on September 6, 2013. How do you get a Bookbub promotion? If you’re looking for advice from someone who kept getting rejected by them, you’ve come to…
October 26, 2022
My First Ever Book Deal!
Things have been quiet on this page forever, but I finally have some exciting news… I began work on my first traditionally published novel several years ago, at which point…
October 26, 2022
A Post-Apocalyptic Writer in Chernobyl
I’d just gotten back to my Kiev apartment after exploring the nuclear ghost city of Chernobyl and Pripyat all day. I remember undressing and looking at my clothes and shoes…
January 24, 2022