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Written by Kristin Sample on September 2, 2020
Sand Hills Literary Magazine
fiction . freelance writing . long island . nostaglia . work . writingI received my copy of Sand Hills Spring 2020 this weekend. The book–it’s pages, print quality, and binding–is beautifully made. The editors and writers over at Augusta University did a great job. It’s my first university print publication. And when I looked on the Contents pages, I noticed that my story is one of only
Written by Kristin Sample on June 30, 2020
On Submission…Get Over It, Amy Packer goes to editors!
family . fiction . work . writingHere I am on my agent’s website. Lotus Literary reps so many amazing authors and I’m thrilled to be among them. Just wanted to say a big thanks to my agent Priya Doraswamy for believing in me. She represents my screenwriting and now she represents my fiction too! She just sent off Get Over It,
Written by Kristin Sample on June 19, 2020
Just finished my manuscript for Get Over It, Amy Packer
Uncategorized . work . writing🖋I just finished the manuscript for my new novel, Get Over It, Amy Packer. 🖋It’s my first YA novel (or middle grade, I’m not sure where it falls yet). 🖋I sent it off, along with the pitch sheet, to my agent for feedback. 🖋Even more impressive…I figured out how to send the manuscript to my
👏🏼You know you’re a writer when a nice, handwritten rejection 👏🏼from a publication like The Missouri Review is reason for celebration. 👏🏼They get over 12,000 submissions a year, 👏🏼so it feels good to be told “try us again in the future.” 👏🏼 I think I’m going to polish my story “The Art of Mending Broken
I’m going through old files in the garage. I found a bunch of old assignments, worksheets, lessons from when I taught at Preston High School. 🗂They are all neatly filed in color-coded hanging files. Most of them I sent to be shredded. 🗂I have many of them in electronic format on USBs or more recently,