Sherry Clements's Blog

• Little Rock, Arkansas - A Long Time Ago

  October 21, 2009

  • The kids in my neighborhood always loved spring cleaning. It began when one housewife wrestled openwinter stuck windows. Then another threw her rugs over the clothesline and beat them without mercy. It was as ifall the women felt a strange vibration because by the end of the day, every house was turned upside down. Mothersdragged boxes of trash and other good junk into the alley for the garbage ...
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• Write short fiction

  July 29, 2009

  •  I finished a solid draft of my novel in 2000. I spent the next year revising it and trying to get an agent. An agent, Sara G., expressed interest, butdidn't sign me up. She did send me a list of problems she saw with the novel. So I spent about a year working with her. Then she quit the agency, and shortly after that, the agency went belly up (guess she saw that coming!). Meanwhile, I kept ...
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