I first discovered Valerie (and her books) after reading this fabulous guest post about writer happiness. She also writes amazing pieces for the Huffington Post, and her book HAPPINESS AS A SECOND LANGUAGE is currently available on Amazon. If you didn’t grow up speaking Greek, you wouldn’t expect to leave home and instantly be fluent […]
When I first started writing, I was looking for a way to stand out of the massive crowd of people doing the same thing I was–trying to get their work in front of the right people. And while my intents were good, they weren’t coming from the right place. I wasn’t focusing on the work […]
In 2012, I interviewed the amazing Tom Leveen about ZERO (selected as an ALA/YALSA Best Book of 2013) and his book PARTY. Since then, he’s written the awesome MANICPIXIEDREAMGIRL, and his newest novel, SICK, really is (sick as in cool–per the urban dictionary). Brian and his friends are not part of the cool crowd. They’re the […]
I’ve been in a writing/editing cave for the past few days, so enjoy this meme. Happy 2014, everyone! Make it a good one!
I hope all of you are enjoying a joyous Christmas. In lieu of a post today, I’m going to reference a post I recently saw on Rick Riordan’s blog. It has the best writing advice I’ve seen in awhile. Here’s the link. Also, for those who haven’t yet read THE LIGHTNING THIEF, it’s excellent. I’m in […]
Earlier this year, I featured Eliza Green’s debut novel, BECOMING HUMAN, the first in the Exilon 5 trilogy. The sequel, ALTERED REALITY, just came out December 15! Being different is accepted. Being special could get you killed. The Indigene Stephen is forced to leave Earth without Anton, who is captured by the military. On his […]
Ok, so I know linking “12-hour editing bender” and “bad idea” is a bit obvious. But this actually happened to me. Last Saturday I worked on 20 pages of editing from about 10am-10pm. I took a small lunch break, but no dinner break. Keep in mind, I’m not working on an official deadline. Just one of my own making. […]
K.C. Klein’s new novel, HUSTLIN’ TEXAS, just released today! It’s the follow-up to TEXAS WIDE OPEN, which I featured here along with her book DARK FUTURE, which won a Prism award. Here’s more about HUSTLIN’ TEXAS: Only one person in Oak Groves is happy to see bad girl Nikki Logan back in town…Oak Groves’ most […]
I’m seriously bummed that the My Very UnFairy Tale Life series by Anna Staniszewski is coming to an end. For a recap of the previous books, I posted about them here and here. And now, MY SORT OF FAIRY TALE ENDING! Happily ever after? Yeah, right. Jenny’s search for her parents leads her to Fairyland, […]
I met Erin Lange at a recent conference and bought her books immediately. She has one of the strongest voices I’ve ever read. Her debut BUTTER just made YALSA’s 2013 Teens’ Top Ten List and she has a new release entitled DEAD ENDS. A lonely obese boy everyone calls “Butter” is about to make history. […]