Ilsa J. Bick's Blog, page 43

Radio Interview 9/16/10

Tune in tomorrow (Thursday 9/16/10 at 10AM PST) DIALOGUE: Between the lines with Susan Wingate and Joshua Graham . I'll be joining those good folks to discuss my latest book, DRAW THE DARK, and other cool things. If you miss it, you can always catch it as a podcast.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/susan-wi...

New Day, Different Page

I knew there had to be a reason I trashed my old site; it was to give me an excuse to try something different.  This morning, I was still unhappy and all discombobulated about the site and so I figured, okay, I'll try one more thing.  This, of course, goes against what I said about breaking and fixing, but in this case, the thing was really broken, so something had to be done.

Then I remembered my mantra: Don't fix.  Re-build.

So, I trashed the old theme.   Well, I previewed a theme I liked...

The Enemy of Good

Well, if you're noodling around my blog today, you'll notice a couple differences.  Yeah, yeah, the header picture is brighter and cleaner, and I do like it.  (Well, only in IE: Mozilla Firefox is a disaster and I don't know how to fix the stupid thing or go to the newer theme.)  And all those nifty thumbnails on the sidebars–the jpegs of my books and even that really nice Kirkus comment about DRAW–well, those are pfffttt!

That's because I am a very dangerous person. I am the type of person...

DRAW reviewed on Voracious YAppetite

And a very nice, very detailed, very thoughtful one at that: http://www.rebloco.com/2010/09/02/review-draw-the-dark-by-ilsa-j-bick/comment-page-1/#comment-14913

Writers of the Future Video

PW mentioned today that L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future contest celebrated its 26th year on August 28.  That's a contest whose second quarter I was fortunate enough to win in 2000, and this video features many talented writers.   What everyone says here is right on, and two of my mentors, Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch, are also featured.  (Me, I pop up around a minute and twenty into the thing, which is kind of cool–but pay attention to the big guns.)

Enjoy!

SWEET goes to Carolrhoda

As announced on PM, my latest YA contemporary goes to Carolrhoda Lab and my fantabulous editor, Andrew Karre:

Author of DRAW THE DARK Ilsa Bick's SWEET, the story of a girl who is sweet sixteen, a straight-A sophomore… and a killer, again to Andrew Karre at Carolrhoda Lab, by Jennifer Laughran at Andrea Brown Literary Agency.

I don't know yet when this will come out–perhaps in spring, 2012–but I am stoked!

Now, back to work . . .

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