Welcome!

SEPTEMBER: LATE BLOOMERS BLOOM BEST!

 

Are you a late-blooming author? Plucking up your courage to enter your work in writing contests, or submitting to literary magazines? Wandering through Querying Hell, feeling utterly lost and discouraged?

 

Or are you standing (sitting, lying, fretting, languishing, perhaps at least weeding) at your crossroads, wondering whether you even want to risk rejection again? You need time to contemplate, consider, decide whether you’ll comfort yourself with Reese’s Pieces or M&Ms? Maybe simply Not Being A Writer at all is your best choice?

 

Liza Nash Taylor is a late-blooming author who will share her path to traditional publishing, including her writing education, her experience submitting work to literary magazines and writing contests, and querying agents. She will talk about traditional publication, what happens after your book is published and answer your questions about anything other than self-publishing (not her area of expertise).

 

Liza Nash Taylor was a 2018 Hawthornden International Fellow and earned her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts that year. Her work has appeared in Gargoyle Magazine, Deep South and others. Etiquette for Runaways, her debut novel, was released in 2020 by Blackstone Publishing. Her stand-alone sequel, In All Good Faith, released in 2021, earned a starred review from Booklist. A native Virginian, Liza lives in Keswick with her husband and dogs, in an old farmhouse which serves as the setting for her novels.