Twelve Steps by Veronica Bartles5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This was supposed to be something just for my own kicks and giggles, and I told myself that when November was over, I’d put both stories away and say goodbye to these characters forever. I devoted NaNoWriMo to writing a separate story, from the perspective of the little sister in my first novel. Since I wasn’t ready to say goodbye to the characters yet, I decided to let go the same way I started. And I got really close with my queries this time around, but after a handful of encouraging rejections, I convinced myself that this manuscript would always be the one that was almost good enough, but not quite there. But I couldn’t get that first story out of my mind, so I pulled it out of the drawer and totally rewrote the entire thing, keeping only a line or two from the original manuscript. After a year of revision and polishing, I started querying that manuscript… and discovered that I still had a long way to go before it was really ready. I wrote my first novel in 2008, when a speaker at a women’s conference gave me the courage to let go of the paralyzing fear of failure and pursue my lifelong dream. Hey, you’re getting published! How’d that happen? Today we’re talking to Veronica Bartles, author of TWELVE STEPS. ![]() We have a lot of fantastic authors at OneFour KidLit and are excited to introduce them all to you. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |