Chatting with Trice Hickman. . .who will be signing in Charlotte this week (BE THERE!)
This week Charlotte will be celebrating 100 years of CIAA Basketball. The 12 historically black colleges and universities that make up the league have produced some great thinkers, ballers and writers. This weekend, Winston-Salem State University alumnae, Trice Hickman , will be signing books in Charlotte. Hickman embodies a huge lesson that students learn at HBCUs --never give up. Talk about your journey to publication. First, I want to start by saying thank you so much for allowing me this opportunity for an interview on your blog! I’m very appreciative. My journey to publication has been an interesting one. After I wrote my first novel, Unexpected Interruptions , I was bursting with excitement. I did my do diligence and submitted my work to every agent, publisher, and editor whom I thought would be interested in the book. But to my disappointment, rejection letters started trickling in by the boat loads. Every single person I submitted my work to turned it down. Rejection is to...