by Sharon Mitchell | Mar 25, 2014 | courage, inspiration, publishing, writer
Ek’abo Ebi! (Welcome Family!)I’m on Amtrak in route to Norfolk. I am exhausted and even though I should be taking a much needed nap, I feel compelled to write. Have you found yourself in such a situation? Do you find that you must write, even...
by Sharon Mitchell | Mar 11, 2014 | Literary Agents, Luck, Publishers, skill, Spades, writer
Ek’abo Ebi! (Welcome Family)Saturday night, my hubby and I played Spades with a few friends. For those of you who are not familiar, here are the basics. Spades is a card game where you bid how many books (books always consist of four cards each) you have...
by Sharon Mitchell | Feb 25, 2014 | fantasy, influence, Octavia Butler, sci-fi, speculative fiction, WOC, writer
Ek’abo Ebi! (Welcome Family!) It was the late 1990’s. Sitting at my desk at work, I was twiddling my thumbs, waiting for an attorney to call me with my next assignment. Suddenly the phone rings. A friend of mine was on the line. “Guuurl I...
by Sharon Mitchell | Feb 17, 2014 | critiquing, genres, writer, writing
Ek’abo Ebi! (Welcome Family!)Finding the courage to write a book is one thing. But it’s quite another to have your work critiqued by others. You leave your work open to the opinions and thoughts of your peers and sometimes even strangers. You...
by Sharon Mitchell | Jan 14, 2014 | Career, Path, Standing in Your Way, writer, writing
Ek’abo Ebi! (Welcome Family!)Meet Angela.I remember the day clearly. It was bright and sunny out; sixty-four degrees and a week before my twenty-eighth birthday. I was trying to decide if I felt like going to my co-worker’s baby shower. The last...
by Sharon Mitchell | Dec 17, 2013 | creative, genres, industry, published, writer
Ek’abo Ebi! (Welcome Family!)Angela is at a cocktail party. She runs into a bunch of former classmates from college. Everyone’s tooting their horns, talking about all they’ve accomplished or what their spouses have accomplished through the years. Some not...
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