Arlene Hittle

Tag: Check-in

  • I did it!

    No, I didn’t sell my MS … or even sign with an agent. What I did do — no small accomplishment, let me tell you — is surpass my goal to write 100,000 words this year. Yes, I said THIS YEAR — and it’s only June. Since NARWA’s word count challenge began in January, I’ve […]

  • Surprise!

    I was enjoying a nice, quiet get-to-know-you lunch with my characters when Bethany dropped a bombshell. Even in “Blind Date Bride,” I knew that Beth was different. She’s the one who tried to get Kari to get in touch with her inner tramp, and who told Kari, “Keep a man happy in bed and he’ll […]

  • Chattering away

    Bethany and Cody are chattering away in my head and I’m getting more and more antsy to start telling their story. Today, I spent an hour or so sketching out a basic plot. Since I’m not much of a plotter, that’s already more plotting than I usually do for a book. I’m thinking it might […]

  • Pitch, anyone?

    After reading agent Nathan Bransford’s blog post on the importance of having one-sentence, one-paragraph and two-paragraph pitches ready for your novel (you never know when you’ll run into your Dream Agent in an elevator, after all), I decided to take a stab at crafting some of my own. One sentence: As the reluctant winners of […]