Kristin Sample's Blog, page 2
June 30, 2020
On Submission…Get Over It, Amy Packer goes to editors!
Here I am on my agent’s website. Lotus Literary reps so many amazing authors and I’m thrilled to be among them.
Just wanted to say a big thanks to my agent Priya Doraswamy for believing in me. She represents my screenwriting and now she represents my fiction too! She just sent off Get Over It, Amy Packer to editors so we are officially “on submission” right now.
It’s so weird—I’m so excited to hear back from editors. I can’t stop thinking about it. I need figure out a project to put ...
June 19, 2020
May 7, 2020
April 28, 2020
Old Writing Revisited
Im going through old files in the garage. I found a bunch of old assignments, worksheets, lessons from when I taught at Preston High School. 
April 24, 2020
April 20, 2020
Quarantine Submissions…
Just an FYI for my fellow writers. The following publication are accepting submissions
The New Yorker
The Georgia Review
The Sun
Oxford American
The Missouri Review
The Antioch Review
AGNI
The New England Review
Harpers
The Gettysburg Review
The Paris Review
Yes, I know these are elite pubs. In fact, I read once that you have a better chance of getting into Harvard than The New Yorker. Logically, that means that if I ever get in The New Yorker, I will fully expect a degree from Harvard to...
March 28, 2020
Quarantine & Chill
We are really on week two because we spent most of Spring Break quarantined as well. Heres some highlights and lowlights
The week started off pretty crappy with me trying to homeschool the kids myself. We didnt have any work yet, but I decided that momschool would be in session from day one. We were just coming off Spring Break and I didnt want my students thinking this is summer mode. My students have a lot of opinions and love to point out that while I am a trained teacher, I dont teach...
March 26, 2020
Stagecraft now available on Kindle!
Hey everyone!
Thanks to everyone who reached out about reading Stagecraft on the Kindle. Its available now for only $1.99! Yes, you can still read it for free on the blog but if you want the whole thing right now OR if you want it on your Kindle device/app, you should buy it.
Bonus: Buying it directly supports me since Im a KDP Select author (Kindle Direct Publishing).
March 23, 2020
Homeschooling–Captain’s Log Day 1
We did some language arts this morning. How I wish I could just be like Read for an hour while I go screw around on my laptop and maybe answer an email. That wouldnt work. They need more structure than that.
It went well for Jackson. He read for a solid thirty minutes than did his writing prompt Who is your least favorite character and why? I told him to write seven sentences to which he responded SEVEN!!!??? and I immediately backed down to Five because thats what I learned in all those...
March 13, 2020
I’m releasing Stagecraft for Free
Next week, starting on Monday, Ill be publishing my novel STAGECRAFT here under the tab Read Stagecraft (FREE). Every few days, Ill post another chapter. So it will be serialized. Just like how Charles Dickens used to do. Except I wont get paid like him or be responsible for some of the greatest British novels of all time like him or write about super poor people like him.
Still, we do how Chuck Dickens do.
Look for the Prologue on this website on Monday morning. If you have to stay inside...
