C a r o l y n D a u g h t e r s

I’m in Midtown Manhattan helping my friend Sharron find some new digs. She’s enrolling in the School of Visual Arts, which means she needs to move from Denver to NYC.

To help Sharron find a pad, I contacted 1,497 rental agents in Midtown, the Lower East Side, and Brooklyn. That’s an exact number. Or rather a fake exact number. I could totally cite the real number if I wanted to cause I listed all the agents in a spreadsheet. I love spreadsheets. Rows and columns of detailed info that lay some semblance of order atop the day-to-day crazy. But I digress. … Continue Reading

Last Sunday I returned from a Literary Writers Conference in Manhattan, where I read from my work and received critiques from literary agents, gong show style (“I’m bored — stop reading now!”). I also learned about how to get published (“you have better odds at winning the lottery — throw in the towel!”). It was a tough love boot camp, no question. And it rocked. Seriously.

And **famous person alert** I actually had the chance to chat one on one with Mary Gannon, Editorial Director of Poets & Writers Magazine. I know, right? Mary Gannon!

If you’re all like, “um, who’s Mary … Continue Reading