Hey, y’all, and welcome to installment #2 of The Long and Winding Road (to publication). When I first mentioned doing a series of blog posts geared toward information regarding my long (and continuing) path to publication, I asked the #WriteMentor potential mentees to come up with a few questions they’d like me to answer, fully…

This summer, I have been lucky and blessed to have been chosen as a mentor in the #WriteMentor contest, a wonderful writing program that pairs agented and/or published writers with pre-agented writers looking to hone their craft and perfect their manuscripts to “submission ready.” It’s sort of surreal experience at the moment as I find…

If you saw my new logo on the way in (shameless plug), no doubt you noticed my tagline reads: Author. Journalist. Southerner. I can probably guess what you’re thinking: Ok Brandy, obviously you’re an author and journalist, and yes, you live in the South. But what kind of resume credential is being a Southerner? Does…

Sometimes I wonder if there really are some writers out there that have it all together—tidy credenzas where they sit to peck away at the keyboard; cork boards with pinned notes for detailed plot twists; expertly sorted stacks of research ready for action. Let me be perfectly blunt—that ain’t me!That’s probably why I adore creative…