Jean Tatro, Writer

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Truer words never spoken

Jean | May 31, 2008

“When writing a novel that’s pretty much entirely what life turns into: ‘House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.’” – Neil Gaiman This quote resonates with me simply because of how true it is. In 2004 I watched my home for [...]

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Woes of June

Jean | May 30, 2008

The month isn’t even here yet and I can tell that it is going to wreck havoc. At least from the standpoint of my writing. I’m going to be traveling. First to Salt Lake City on the 6th; then to Seattle on the 15th  until the 27th. On one hand there’ll be plenty of new [...]

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The First

Jean | May 18, 2008

I got my first rejection Saturday. It was for my short story for the Sword and Sorceress Anthology. I got a short, but nicely worded form response that can be summed up as ‘not for us, try elsewhere’. Perhaps all my research and reading has paid off as I was underwhelmed by my causal acceptance. [...]

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