Mark R. Probst's Blog, page 3

Support a good cause! AWAKE benefits the Trevor Project!

  Awake is now available for sale. Cheyenne Publishing has teamed with Nancy Garden, Kathe Koja, Robin Reardon, Brian Katcher, and Jordan Taylor to present four YA stories of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender teens. All net proceeds go to The Trevor Project.

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Do authors resemble their book covers? and other eerie things...

I've been putting together a promo CD for Cheyenne to pass out at events and while assembling the material onto slides I noticed something that made me shiver - the resemblance of the authors to their book covers.
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The other weird thing that happened to me is that while I'm halfway through reading Farley Granger's autobiography, Include Me Out , the man up and dies! Very eerie indeed!

See there, how people can jump to wrong conclusions!

 Yesterday I posted about YA author Jessica Verday and the kerfuffle over being told the gay characters in her story would not be accepted by the publisher. Well I checked back at her blog today and there is an update:  Jessica Verday's updated blog post  Turns out the editor had made the decision on her own and after Jessica's post, the editor found out from Running Press that they would have been delighted to have included the gay story! So apparently it was all much ado about nothing. Anyhow I'll be following her blog to see if amends can be made and if she will be invited back into the anthology with her original story.