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Lauren Hough also taught me to fight back in publishing, which was tremendous encouragement during a time I almost gave up writing, right at the very beginning.
In addition to what I already mentioned above, I also took free workshops from Gotham and got help from Hugo House in Seattle. And learned so much from the writers community at large, in particular the Binders groups on Facebook.
LL: When did you know the manuscript was ready to query?
MY: It was my first time writing a book and I probably queried a bit too early initially. I started querying before the book was written, thinking I might be able to get started with a proposal and some sample chapters. I wanted to do this in order to get some guidance from publishing professionals, but quickly learned that this was not the way to get a memoir published. I learned that as a first time writer, I needed to get the full manuscript written first.
