Whew. I just finished my fourth round of edits on my new YA. That means…it’s finished! After one more round of reading and checking for silly grammar mistakes, off it goes! I’m so, so excited to have that *this close* to being finished. Getting the draft down was exciting, but I’m ready to have someone else read it and give me feedback.

I sent a two magazine queries out this weekend because it felt, well, weird not to have any queries out there. I’ve just been accepting assignments as they come and not querying, but I’m trying to break into bigger, glossier mags this year and I’ve got to at least send a couple queries.

Before I started writing fiction, at my peak of magazine querying, I had 30 queries out at once. So you see how zero feels odd. But I do think taking a short break from magazines and writing only fiction has helped, but I’m at the point where I can slowly start working on breaking into different magazines while keeping my focus on books.