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...
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...
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...
I am so thrilled to join What’s Up Wednesday for the first time! WUW is a weekly blog hop developed by Jaime Morrow and Erin Funk to help writers connect with each other. If you’d like to join, too, please drop by Jaime’s blog to add your post to the list! What I’m Reading… Buy...
I recently read a popular book by an award winning author. It was terrible. I’m choosing not to name the book, because I realize that my opinion is just that. But that experience, the one of having high expectations for a book and having them fall utterly and completely flat, has affected me as both...
“It’s okay to take a break.” My husband said this to me yesterday. It’s one of those things I know to be true, but it helps to hear someone else reaffirm it. In the ever-shifting balance of life, family time and writing time keep up their antagonistic struggle. The blog usually gets the shortest stick in that draw, but I wanted...
On any given day in the writing community, you can find a new batch of query contests, pitch competitions, and giveaways. I love that part of the blog-o-sphere, but over the past year or so, I’ve been truly struck by the added dimension of generosity in our industry. So many agents, editors, and authors donate their time...
