Recently a writer I know and respect sent out a message asking readers and friends to please review her new book on the various sites. (Goodreads, Amazon, etc.) It was all completely on the up-and-up. She didn’t ask for positive reviews, just honesty from those who’d read it, in the hopes that they might balance...
What’s Up Wednesday is a weekly blog hop hosted by Jaime Morrow and Erin Funk. Please stop by their blogs to join in the fun! WHAT I’M READING Buy it using Indie Bound here I just finished Cassandra Clare’s City of Heavenly Fire, either the sixth or the third in the series depending on how...
Last week Alison Miller tagged me in the Writer’s on Writing blog hop, and today’s my day! You can check out her blog here. Thanks, Alison! 1. What are you working on?My work-in-progress is a YA contemporary about a girl with a disabled father and a mother in prison. She’s done a fine job taking...
It’s been forever since I checked in with YA Highway’s Road Trip Wednesday. This week the topic is simple and perfect for what’s been on my mind: What are you reading right now?I’m still reading The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt. At about halfway through, that’s slow reading for me. I’ve been itching to talk about...
What’s Up Wednesday is a weekly blog hop hosted by the lovely Jaime Morrow and Erin Funk. Please check out their blogs to join in the fun! What I’m ReadingI just started Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch. I love Donna Tartt. To anyone exploring the realm of New Adult, I highly recommend her first novel The...
Welcome, readers! I lucked out by securing a spot in “The Writer’s Voice,” a multi-blog, multi-agent contest hosted by Brenda Drake, Mónica Bustamante Wagner, Kimberly P. Chase, and Elizabeth Briggs. You can find more info on any of their websites. If you’re one of the judges, thank you so much for this opportunity! This entry is for my YA...
I’m often struck by the idea of privacy, and its frequent absence in our constantly media connected world. It’s an underlying theme in my novel Perception, and lately I’ve had the opportunity to question some real life issues with our expectations of privacy. Last year a law passed in the state of Florida that prohibits educators from discouraging a parent from bringing...
This week the lovely Leatrice McKinney at Info Dump a la El is hosting Pitch Slam: Battle of the Bands! In addition to pitching novels, each day this week we’re rocking Pitch Slam Twitter Parties. Today we’re sharing our writing playlists. My YA novel PERCEPTION is about a boy with a rare liver disorder who spends one wild...
What’s Up Wednesday is a blog hop created and hosted by Jaime Morrow and Erin Funk to connect and encourage writers. Please visit their blogs to join in the fun! Click here to buy it locally through Indie Bound WHAT I’M READING This week I’m reading Cherry Money Baby by author and agent extraordinaire John...
What’s Up Wednesday is a weekly blog hop hosted by Jaime Morrow and Erin Funk. Please check out their blogs to join in the fun! What I’m ReadingA few years overdue, I just finished Maggie Stiefvater’s Forever. I’ve said it before, but Stiefvater is an amazing writer. She has a talent for fleshing out characters and writing multi-sensory descriptions. But the...
