Author: lindacleary

• Here’s the real cover I designed! 📓

  I’m super excited to share my book design I created! I’ve been wanting to wait to design the real cover until I had the perfect design, and my brain exploded…

• I’m self-publishing The Black Stone Cycle! 📚

  I’m super excited about starting my self-publishing journey! I’m querying a new series that an agent expressed interest in while I was submitting The Dreamer. Young adult SF was a…

• A little hope 🌈

  As I submit my short stories to publications, I am reminding myself of a couple of positive things that are happening in conjunction with rejections. 19 agents still haven’t rejected…

• Building, and building, and building… 🛠️

  I’m at the beginning of a couple of careers/passions, and it’s been an emotional rollercoaster packed with rejection, excitement, shame, inspiration, and more. I go from feeling pride and then…

• A series of FB posts… ⌨️

  …A series of FB posts I never posted here about my query journey for The Dreamer. Organized from most recent to January…when I started my query journey! Read and experience…

• Submitting a few shorts… 🩳

  Submitting short stories to publications is a whole other microcosm of stress and excitement. Some places have a quick turnaround and respond in a reasonable amount of time and some…

• Wow! Check out this sunrise 🌄

  (This is from today!) A part of me wants to just go back to sleep, but a bigger part of me knows I need to submit to three agents today.…

• Gloomy day…but it’s okay. ⛆

  This is a facebook post from a few days ago, but wanted to share on my blog. Another gloomy day…after a super tough day. Getting rejections in the midst of…