What is The Hound?
This is The Hound, a newsletter about the real life of writing novels, short stories, and creative nonfiction. Why is it called The Hound? Writing is a search for stories, for voices, for places gone, and places not yet found. Writers are constantly on a hunt for engaging characters, for time to write, for treasured words.
Plus, I like dogs.
Who reads The Hound?
Anyone interested in writing or other creative mediums.
If you’re reading this, you’re probably like me: struggling to fit writing into everyday life, questioning word choice as if it will make or break the story, wading through the publishing world (traditional and other), and trying to find time to be relevant on social media (ick 🥴).
What you can expect:
Come query with me! I’ll take you through my querying process for my second book.
Edit like you mean it. I’ll share editing tips I’ve received on my own writing and how they worked for me.
Interviews. Yep. It could be YOU.
No fluff. We’re going to get straight to the good stuff.
The Hound serves as a place where I can share my experience as a writer. I want to share my failures as much as my accomplishments because I appreciate when others do that for me. And I want it to be clear to you that I don’t always know what I’m doing (or where to put commas) and that’s okay.
I want to be your cheerleader! I want to be the mom who gets up and drives you to hockey practice at five in the morning because you love getting hit in the face with that black disc thing (I’m from South Carolina.) I want to be your BFF whom you call on your clear plastic 80s phone as soon as you get home from school. Need someone to hold your hair back and fan your face when you overheat in the line for the Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster at Hollywood Studios? That’s me! So, send me your good news and I’ll share what I can in The Hound newsletter so we can all support your efforts. Writers supporting writers is how we get through this.
Who is Alissa C. Miles?
Hi. Thanks for reading.
I write fiction novels, short stories, and creative nonfiction.
Creating something and then sending it out for others to criticize, misinterpret, and/or reject is a questionable career choice. Why do we do this?
For me, the act of writing is far better than not. My brain can’t not write. It’s a vulnerable position to put myself in, I know. But there is also the moment when someone reads something I’ve written and it creates a connection between the reader and me or the reader and a book club or the reader and the self.
Connect with me here at The Hound and let’s get through this together.
Alissa C. Miles’ novel Mad Moon was published in 2020. Her short story The Window won a fiction prize through Two Sisters Writing and Publishing in 2019. Several of her creative nonfiction pieces are in the online publication Epilogue, including her essay titled Death and Writing. She lives in North Carolina with her family and two dogs (a coonhound named Pip and a terrier-hound mix named Tug).
Twitter: @AlissaCMiles
Instagram: @alissacoopermiles
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