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Long Time, No...Communication Whatsoever: An Author's Apology for Failing to Update You on an Exciting Development
Sometimes, when your child is at summer camp (she’s 19 days into a 30 day sleep-away experience and have we received a single letter? No)...

Vanessa King
Jul 313 min read


A Cover Reveal: One Year Later
A year ago today, I was in the basement of our place in Boulder, trying desperately to perform a cheeky, consistently in-frame glove peel...

Vanessa King
Mar 13, 20224 min read


"What's next for you?"
As a new author with a single book deal, there is only one question more daunting than, “What’s next for you?” That would be “How is your...

Vanessa King
Jan 13, 20226 min read


A Year Between the Ears: 2021 in Audiobooks
As mentioned across multiple formats, I'm an unrepentant audiobook nerd. It's been a lifelong love, from my days of waiting for...

Vanessa King
Dec 8, 20217 min read


I am a beautiful, naive, sophisticated newborn baby
I'm having a writerly existential crisis. Or maybe it's a readerly one? In any case, I've arrived at it courtesy of an interview I did...

Vanessa King
Oct 19, 20215 min read


Inspiration & Blunt Force Trauma: Happy 9th Anniversary of the Day I Held That Lady's Scalp Together
I'm going to have to deal with that. It's the thought I have when I see the metal frame come free from the cat hospital on the corner of...

Vanessa King
Jun 7, 20215 min read


The Cover Story
Before A CERTAIN APPEAL, my only experience with the book cover process was secondhand, via another gal in the book club I was in while...

Vanessa King
Mar 15, 20216 min read


An Annotated Query
In October 2020, I headed up a feedback group for Camp RevPit, an online writing "camp" run by volunteer alumni of ReviseResub contests....

Vanessa King
Jan 7, 20215 min read
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