What I've Learned

<!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} </style>--> <br /><div class="MsoNormal">My debut middle-grade novel, GLORY BE, turned one year old in January. Along with toasting the year's awesomeness, I pondered what I've learned. Miraculously, somebody asked me to write about it.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Thank you, Chuck Sambuchino and Writers Digest, for giving me an opportunity to share. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Because what good is learning something if you keep it to yourself?</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.writersdigest.com/editor-b... style="font-size: large;">CLICK HERE if you'd like to read </span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.writersdigest.com/editor-b... style="font-size: large;">SEVEN THINGS I'VE LEARNED SO FAR</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Any other tips from fellow debut authors about navigating your first year? Or those of you who remember your own <span style="font-size: small;">very first book?</span></span></span></i> </span></div><br />