Y S Lee

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Sisters, scammers, hijinks ensue

February 10, 2016 By Ying 4 Comments

Hello, friends! I am still healing from the wisdom tooth extraction and feeling cross about my soup/hummus/pudding subsistence diet. So! Much! Slime! But I don't want to talk about that. Instead, I'd like to share some of the sources I consulted when writing "The Legendary Garrett Girls". As you probably know, I adore research. In this case, though, my research began entirely by accident, with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Things I Write Tagged With: A Tyranny of Petticoats, Alaska, Candlewick Press, Gold Rush, Jessica Spotswood, research, short story, The Legendary Garrett Girls, Things I Write

First pass pages

August 12, 2015 By Ying 4 Comments

Hello, friends. A few weeks ago, I wrote about re-reading; I'm here today to talk about a different kind of re-reading. Recently, I went through the first pass pages of "The Legendary Garrett Girls". That's the title of my short story in Jessica Spotswood's upcoming A Tyranny of Petticoats - a collection of 15 short stories about girls in American history, to be published by Candlewick Press … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Things I Write Tagged With: Alaska, Candlewick, editing, editorial process, first pass pages, Gold Rush, page proofs, re-reading, short story, The Legendary Garrett Girls, Things I Write

The Legendary Garrett Girls

July 30, 2014 By Ying 2 Comments

Hello, friends! Last week, I sent off the first clean draft of my short story, "The Legendary Garrett Girls". It's going to be one of fifteen stories in an anthology called Petticoats and Pistols, edited by Jessica Spotswood and published by Candlewick Press. This is only a first draft, and there are several rounds of editing to come. Still, I'm thrilled to have a full, clean draft … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Things I Write Tagged With: Alaska, Candlewick Press, Gold Rush, Petticoats and Pistols, short story, Soapy Smith, The Legendary Garrett Girls

5 Things About My Work-in-Progress

July 2, 2014 By Ying 7 Comments

Hello, friends. The other day on Facebook, my friend Stephanie Burgis posted her answers to a meme, "Five Things About Your Work-in-Progress". I was delighted! I read it, thinking, "Oh, it's so great to hear more about what she's up to!" Then I realized that I, um, NEVER talk about my work-in-progress. One reason is because I'm constitutionally secretive and vaguely superstitious about unpolished … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Things I Write Tagged With: Alaska, Freddy Spencer Chapman, Gold Rush, historical fiction forever, Jessica Spotswood, Klondike, Malaya, Malaysia, Petticoats and Pistols, Second World War, Stephanie Burgis, The History Girls, The Jungle is Neutral, Things I Write

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