Recently writer Sarah J. Maas (her Fictionpress can be found here) contacted me about some startling similarities we share: we’d written fantasy novels, had similiar pen names, had widespread popularity on Fictionpress, were both young, blond, and engaged, she got her agent a month after I did, in January 2009, and both of our novels are out on submissions right now. We became quick friends and exchanged books (her novel Queen of Glass had many more fans on Fictionpress than I did, and no doubt you’ve heard of it. I think we even went up against each other in some online polls for best Fantasy story… she won, of course, lol).

Sarah and a friend recently began a Fictionpress writers blog called Let The Words Flow, of which I am proud to be a contributor. LTWF is just starting up, so check back soon as we all post our introductory posts, then we’ll move on to articles about writing, answering your questions about the agent and publishing process, and giving you updates on our own progress with new and existing novels. One of us is even published already! It’s so exciting to see some of the people I knew on Fictionpress coming together to collaborate and share our real-life stories (for once!).

Let The Words Flow is only the first bit of exciting news, however. The second part is actually some old news, but I’m actively participating with it this time: Snippet Saturdays.

Snippet Saturdays is a project founded by the other writers of my agent, Laura Bradford, but has since grown to include outside writers as well. Snippet Saturdays work like this: We come up with topics, such as fight scene, or first kiss, or dramatic exit, and then if one of your stories includes the topic you post just that part of the story (or ‘snippet’) on your blog on Saturday, with links to the other writers who are doing the same thing. Readers can go from blog to blog this way, reading excerpts from up to 20 different novels all focused on the same theme!

This Saturday’s theme is, appropriately, Horror. You can be sure I’m going to deliver; I plan to put up an excerpt from Go look There. Prepare to be grossed out, slightly nauseated, and definitely horrified. =)

See you on Saturday!

Tags: halloween, horror, ltwf, snippets

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