Tag: The House

  • The Worth of an Editor

    The Worth of an Editor

    I recently had to fire an editor with whom I had contracted to edit my upcoming novel, The House. All started out fine, signing the editor’s contract and paying their requested fee. Yet three weeks into the process I was receiving long written assemblages of what amounted to–upon clarification from the editor–the editor’s thoughts as…

  • How do you know you’re a writer?

    How do you know you’re a writer?

    How do you know you’re a writer? I struggle with this question while readying my second book, a novel, The House, for publication in fall 2009. I graduated my MFA program–Goddard College, Port Townsend, Washington–in July 2006. The afternoon following commencement I was fortunate enough to open my e-mail and see a publisher’s request to…

  • Event | Anita’s Desk Interviews author and psychotherapist, Anjuelle Floyd

    Anita’s Desk interviews Anjuelle about her life as an author, psychotherapist, wife, mother, and painter; and the challenges that go along with it. Anjuelle is the author of a collection of 8 interconnected short stories, KEEPER of SECRETS…TRANSLATIONS of an INCIDENT. She is presently editing her first novel, THE HOUSE, which is due out September…

  • Fear of Intimacy…

    I recently commented on a blog post where the question was: How does a good relationship feel? In short I said that how one feels in a good relationship is predicated on the nature and quality of one’s previous relationships and one’s perspective as shaped by those experiences. You can read my entire comment at…

  • My Characters’ Obsessions

    I’m noticing is that as I work on my 9th novel–I’ve written 8–all unpublished–my published work is a collection of short stories, “Keeper of Secrets…Translations of an Incident“—that I’m identifying and honing in on my major character’s obsession. This is a new discovery for me. I realize in revising and editing my recent, and 8th…