Today we welcome author Jenn Bishop to talk about her upcoming middle grade novel, 14 Hollow Road (Alfred A. Knopf, June 13, 2017). From the promotional copy:
The night of the sixth-grade dance is supposed to be perfect for Maddie; she’ll wear her beautiful new dress,
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We welcome Marianna Baer to talk about her new YA novel, The Inconceivable Life of Quinn (Amulet, April 2017). From the promotional copy:
Quinn Cutler is sixteen and the daughter of a high-profile Brooklyn politician.
She’s also pregnant, a crisis made infinitely more shocking by the fact that she has no memory of ever having sex. Continue Reading Author Interview: Marianna Baer on the Twisty Turns of Becoming a YA Author »
I’ve been musing about what project I will work on next. Of my numerous ideas, which will take me into the challenging and blissful intellectual, emotional, psychological environment that I’ve been in for more than two years with my middle grade novel in verse, now on submission through my agent?
Continue Reading Guest Post: Carol Coven Grannick on “Into the Scary for the Sake of Joy” »
This morning I see a child on the early side of toddler, snuggled like a well-placed puzzle piece in his daddy’s arms.
He smiles at me, reaches out with one arm, as if I will be a wonderful new discovery. I reach back…
But, no. The minute I do,
For the last eight years, I have worked for a small Seattle book publisher called Chin Music Press.
I’ve done everything from fact checking and copy editing to developmental- and line-editing, from setting up book tours to reading through the slush pile (a task I actually enjoyed).
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By Ann Angel
Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The Hummingbird’s Daughter (Little, Brown, 2006), perceives drafting as something far more glamorous than me, and so I’m inspired by his words:
“Writing rules. Everything else sucks. Writing is a big sandbox and it’s full of Tonka Trucks and plastic Godzillas.”
Have you experienced that creative space?
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I’ve moved into indie publishing lately, where it is entirely my choice which books I release into the world. So, I’ve been thinking about branding.
One thing it has taken me a while to realize is that just because you don’t write the most popular thing and you get some bad reviews because of it,
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Linda reflecting on her writing life.
By Linda Boyden
How do I write?
With deepest apologies to Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Dr. Seuss, let me count the ways:
with pencil, pen or quill,
from a picture, if you will,
on a napkin, in the dark,
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This week I’ve caught myself for two minutes here, five minutes there, reading a scene from my manuscript in progress.
Not to edit it. Not because I’m nervous about what my new editor will say (that won’t kick in for another couple of weeks).
Not because I don’t have other things to do.
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Has the wisdom of time and life positively affected my ability to write flawed characters? Or is it the other way around?
I muse about this during an early summer morning’s coffee and writing time.
In much younger days, a painful flaw in a friend’s makeup would end the friendship.
Continue Reading Guest Post: Carol Coven Grannick on Flaws: Fatal – Or Not »
