Author page: Lee Ann

My goal for 2024 is to find an agent. I have a lot of work to do before I am ready to query, but I can't seem to get started putting what I hope are the final touches on my manuscript. We are in that limbo of a no man's land between Thanksgiving and New…

Many writers seem to take offense when they are told they will need to promote themselves and their work. Maybe they think that a publisher should be doing this work for them, maybe they aren't familiar with the various platforms, or maybe they are just humble. But no one knows your work, your story,…

The Drexel MFA Class of 2024 just spent four days in New York City for our second of three residencies. We worked on our book jacket copy, met an assortment of agents and editors and writers, and visited the Author's Guild. We trekked to the offices of Folio Literary Management and rode the subway all…

When I typed "The End" at the end of my draft, I knew it wasn't. That was April and now it's almost September. I will discuss revision at some point, but last week I grew weary of the process and started to doubt myself. A key chapter needed to be rewritten to better service…

OK, here we go. I had a blog and virtually no one read it. Yet I spent so much time wordsmithing it, revising it, and then reading it over and over--making edits even after it was published. Recently, I signed up for a webinar called "Author on the Internet" with uber-agent Carly Watters of PS…