About Me

I’m a 25 year-old history graduate student at UT Arlington, and I live in Euless, TX.  It’s not a very happening place, but it is 20 minutes from everything from Dallas to the garbage dump.  Really everything is right at my fingertips from classy to trashy.  However, I end up mostly with trashy.

I started this blog because like millions of people, I want to be a writer.  And sometimes I would rather blog than write about dying Irish people in 19th century New Orleans.  I wrote a novel On the Curb, and I sent out queries.  I got one person to actually agree to look at it, but that is as far as it went.  I opened the letter and dramatically threw myself on the bed crying.  My sister, an actual writer, told me “Madeline Engle took 12 years to get published,” and since Madeline and I share the same birthday, I am hopeful.

I think perhaps On the Curb has too much soul and not enough of a market for a first publication.  And so here I am, writing a blog.  This is something I said I would never do because it feels self-indulgent and weird to dedicate a whole website to me.  The internet sites that are supposed to tie us closer together, only make me feel more isolated.  I thought that if I wrote a blog, I would feed the technology monster, and somehow lose more of myself in the process.  But like a good historian I realize that people must use the technology of their time.  So, I’m blogging.  My highest hope is that the best parts of this blog can be turned into a humor book.  I’m hoping that some wealthy agent will stumble upon it and laugh and coffee with shoot out his/her nose, and then others will be beckoned to check out my posts.

Cross your fingers.  But only on one hand, if you cross both that is bad luck!