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July 12, 2019
10 Characters Hollywood Cast as Different Races
Great post, Kiki. New Subscriber!
July 11, 2019
Avoiding distractions to stay on task
Staying on task is hard. Really, it is.
There are countless distractions whether you are at work or at home. There are ringing phones, text messages, social media, news, co-workers or kids. It can feel like you never get any uninterrupted time. (I felt that way today as I wrote this blog. Numerous times the kids came in to chat.)
Often to feel like I am getting stuff crossed off my to do list (whether it be writing, PTA or home tasks), I try working on several things at on...
Copyright Infringement, Again!
This is need-to-know information for writers. Take care out there. Thank you, K. Morris for sharing this!
From time to time, I Google my books to ascertain whether any of them have received a mention, for example in the form of a book review. Whilst searching for one of my titles yesterday (Wednesday 10th July), I came across a link to the book on Kiss Library.
All of my books (with the exception of Guide Dogs Anthology), are available from Amazon and (in the case of “My Old...
July 9, 2019
Elizabeth Acevedo began to love literature with Dominican fables
[Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.] The full title of the article is “Elizabeth Acevedo, winner of the Carnegie Medal, began to love literature with Dominican fables.” Carolina Pichardo (Listin Diario) interviews Elizabeth Acevedo, author of the award-winning The Poet X.
Elizabeth Acevedo was born in New York, but she is well aware that her roots are Dominican—so much so that she did not grow up with the usual fairy tales as a typical gir...
How I Got My Literary Agent – Part Two
This is interesting, inspiring, and informational.
June 21, 2019
SNEAK PEEK: Excerpts from the beginning of SIDE CHICK NATION, the first novel published about Hurricane Maria
“Gripping feminist heist fiction about turning the tables on the disaster capitalists in the jaws of climate apocalypse? Improbably and thrillingly, Aya de Leon has pulled off exactly that with SIDE CHICK NATION. I couldn’t put it down.”
-Naomi Klein author The Shock Doctrine
Side Chick Nation, a novel
when deadly storms hit, the truth gets laid bare…
Dulce García was a teen sexually exploited by a violent New York pimp until Marisol Rivera rescued her. But Dulce didn’t stay res...
Cooperation vs Competition: Interacting With Other Authors
by Doug Lewars
My experience with authors is that they’re a pretty supportive lot. This is not always the case. I remember reading comments in a group by one author who refused to have much to do with others. Her argument was that her time was limited and spending it with other authors was sub-optimal. Maybe someone like Stephen King or JK Rowling doesn’t benefit to any great extent from working with others but I believe in general it’s a good idea.
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The One Thing That Matters When Looking For A Publisher
If you ask most writers which publisher they’d like a contract with, they’ll probably tell you one of the big five.
They’ll do the best job, right?
Yes… and no.
A few weeks ago, I attended the KidLitVic conference where a panel with Jane Pearson (Text Publishing), Suzanne O’Sullivan (Hachette Australia and Lothian Children’s Books), and Miriam Rosenbloom (Scribble) talked about publishers—from the big to the small.
This included the revelation that big publishers aren’t always the...
3 Reasons Self-Published Books Fail
by Laura Peters
The introduction of self-publishing on sites like Amazon has opened up new avenues for writers to get their work read. A lot of writers still maintain that you can’t find success without going through a traditional publisher but that isn’t necessarily the case. Take The Martian by Andy Weir. It started out as a series of short chapters published on his blog which he then decided to sell on Amazon for next to nothing. It soon topped the best sellers list for...
June 18, 2019
How I Got My Literary Agent – Part 2
I love this post. Ross is humorous, candid, and his self-reflections are quite endearing. He’s also a pantser (I’m a hybrid of plotter and pantser). I’m so glad I stumbled upon this post!
How do I get a literary agent?
At this point in the story, I’m still asking myself that question. If you just got here and you don’t know what’s going on, jump back to Part One on how I got my literary agent.
After working on BOOK 3 for four years, I finally finished it in my last semester a...
