Another gainful year for the Rebel Writers! We have met monthly and plied the convo on fiction writing and publishing, offering encouragement and support.
Russ has had a full year to experience the new journey of being a published novelist. For him, it’s been both life changing and affirming, and a lesson in the not-glamorous experience of trying to claw one’s way into the ever-hardened, -fragmented, and -supersaturated world of publishing. It’s given him transcendent moments, of praise and recognition for his book, along with awards and simultaneous consternation about the modern indie-press novelist’s challenge of converting accolades into book sales. A worldly writer’s dream of mixed realities. At once, validating and sobering.
Through his co-authoring work on the novel of our late colleague John Wirebach, Russ has gained literary representation from agent Tracy Crow, who is currently pitching Mean Streets Paris ’44 to publishers.
Chris has set the pace in level of activity in the group with multiple publication projects in play. See his bio here.
With input from the Rebs, Kathleen has completed her novel Murder in Jersey City and begun to query it to agents, and has embarked on the next in that series, Murder in Haddonfield.
Dave is coming off a hiatus in his efforts, to return to pitching his historical novel and to advance his two other novels in progress.
Jennifer has taken a leave of absence from the Rebels to keep abreast of her many commitments with regards her various book projects, her podcast, and her graphic design commitments. We look forward to her near-term return.
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