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The Linda Howard Award of Excellence Finalists are posted! Look! There I am under YA! (I admit that I can see why some people are addicted to this.) Okay. Time to FOCUS. Synopsis MUST be finished asap. It’s not that I don’t know what happens in the end. I do. It’s just that cramming it… Read More This Just In…
I mentioned a while back that I was entering a contest on a whim. I might have also mentioned that I was nervous about it because I’ve only ever entered a few and I have never gotten a combined lukewarm reaction – readers love it or hate it. I won one a few years back… Read More Squee!!! A Final – finally!!!
Now that the end (of HOF) is near, I think it’s time to write the synopsis. This part of the book is always so hard for me. Characters are living and breathing and bossing me around. I’m wanting Edwin to do something uncharacteristic just because Jen wants him to, not because HE wants to. Obviously… Read More Finish Line in Sight
This one is awesome. I guess that’s the second book trailer I’ve seen now that made me actually want to go out and buy the book. I have to admit that Tantalize has had my attention for a while just on the basis of it being a young adult gothic fantasy by an author whose… Read More Again, Not a Huge Fan of Book Trailers But…
Snow day! W00t! Since the kids were let out early, I feel like I won a half a day off! (Of course I didn’t, I’m using sick time because it’s my turn to take a snow day, but whatever, I’m still sitting on the couch with a fleece blanket at noon!! Yippee!!) The boys have… Read More Good Books and Query Letters
In 2008, I seem to have blown off an agent’s request for a rewrite. I’ve had a lot of feelings about that every single day for about six months – many of them self-flagellating. I mean, why-why-WHY would I ruin a perfectly good chance to be represented by someone who seemed to really like my… Read More Going too Far?