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July 2, 2010
FORGET YOU will be in stores July 20!
In the meantime, I've posted early reviews and a sneak peek of chapter 1 on my web site:
jennifer-echols.com
.
July 1, 2010
Public Shame Writing Challenge: Week 4.5 check-in!
I feel really bad that I have let you guys down. You have been writing industriously and I have not finished my book as planned. To make it up to you and to express my admiration for you, if you met your goal for June I'm entering you in a drawing to win Crazy for Love by my CP
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victoria_dahl
, which came out on Tuesday, and Forget You by yours truly, which is coming out on the 20th. To enter, just post your success by July 4, and I'll draw a winner on the 5th.
I will not be running the PSWC in ...
victoria_dahl
, which came out on Tuesday, and Forget You by yours truly, which is coming out on the 20th. To enter, just post your success by July 4, and I'll draw a winner on the 5th.I will not be running the PSWC in ...
June 28, 2010
Public Shame Writing Challenge: Week 4 check-in!
It is funny to me how the title of this post sounds all enthusiastic and stuff.
I am, like, totally not done with my book that I challenged myself to finish last Friday.
Don't stop to help me. Save yourselves!
Your name
Your goal for June
Your goal for Week 4
Your achievement for Week 4
Your goal for Week 4.5 (check-in is Thursday, July 1)
I am, like, totally not done with my book that I challenged myself to finish last Friday.
Don't stop to help me. Save yourselves!
Your name
Your goal for June
Your goal for Week 4
Your achievement for Week 4
Your goal for Week 4.5 (check-in is Thursday, July 1)
June 22, 2010
The Girlfriends' Cyber Circuit presents Wendy Toliver!
The Girlfriends' Cyber Circuit is a webring of YA novelists. Check these postings for the latest releases!
Being Bad Never Felt So Good.
Poppy Browne had never stolen anything in her life before moving to Pleasant Acres, Texas and meeting Mary Jane and Whitney. But when Poppy walks out of the mall with her two new friends and her first pair of stolen jeans, she's hooked.
Before long, Poppy is lifting whenever she gets the urge—it's never about the merchandise, it's always about the thrill. But w...
Being Bad Never Felt So Good.
Poppy Browne had never stolen anything in her life before moving to Pleasant Acres, Texas and meeting Mary Jane and Whitney. But when Poppy walks out of the mall with her two new friends and her first pair of stolen jeans, she's hooked.
Before long, Poppy is lifting whenever she gets the urge—it's never about the merchandise, it's always about the thrill. But w...
June 21, 2010
Public Shame Writing Challenge: Week 3 check-in!
In June I'm finishing the first draft of The Forthcoming Novel With The Fabulous Secret Title by June 25 and sending it to my CPs by June 30.
In Week 3 I said I would smooth it out through Chapter 13.
Well, I don't know what I was thinking. I did write 10,000 words, but I don't know where the hell Chapter 13 is.
Note to self: I do not write in order.
Note to compadres: Supportive Jenn is on vacation. Please meet scatter-brained, disorganized, not-really-all-that-supportive Jenn On Deadline.
I hav...
In Week 3 I said I would smooth it out through Chapter 13.
Well, I don't know what I was thinking. I did write 10,000 words, but I don't know where the hell Chapter 13 is.
Note to self: I do not write in order.
Note to compadres: Supportive Jenn is on vacation. Please meet scatter-brained, disorganized, not-really-all-that-supportive Jenn On Deadline.
I hav...
June 12, 2010
Public Shame Writing Challenge: Week 2 check-in!
The Week 2 check-in isn't until Monday, okay? I'm creating a place for you to post early because I was late last week. Better early than late, right?
And I can tell you already that I'm not going to make my goal for the week. Shame is at my house right now.
But Week 3 is a new week, and things are actually looking better than usual schedule-wise. I'm going to make it through chapter 13.
How about you?
Your goal for June
Your goal for Week 2
Your achievement for Week 2
Your goal for Week 3 (check-in ...
And I can tell you already that I'm not going to make my goal for the week. Shame is at my house right now.
But Week 3 is a new week, and things are actually looking better than usual schedule-wise. I'm going to make it through chapter 13.
How about you?
Your goal for June
Your goal for Week 2
Your achievement for Week 2
Your goal for Week 3 (check-in ...
Looking for a great summer read? Well you can KISS IT
Remember last summer when I read
Erin Downing
's manuscript for
KISS IT
and told you how awesome it was? Well, it's FINALLY IN STORES ON JUNE 15! Here's a description:A girl's gotta do who a girl's gotta do.
Chastity Bryan has never been shy about going after what she wants. And when sexy, mysterious, so-not-from-this-town Sebastian walks into Chaz's life, she knows in an instant that what she wants next is him. Chaz has no intention of playing for keeps—but she most definitely has intentions. ...
June 10, 2010
More good news for ENDLESS SUMMER!
Well, first of all, after only two weeks in stores, Endless
Summer is in its SECOND PRINTING!!! This is a direct result of
YOU walking into a store and buying a copy, and I can't tell you how
much I appreciate you for doing this.
As a result, I have asked
my editor if I may write a third book about Adam and Lori, and she has
said MAYBE. It will depend on sales, but I think we're off to a great
start!
In addition, Going
Too Far has just gone into its SEVENTH PRINTING!!! Again, this
has nothing to do with me and everything to do with you, and I thank
you.
On the Girlfriends' Cyber Circuit, Stephanie Kuehnert asks, "Who
were some of your inspirations to become a writer or the inspirations
that keep you writing?" Jessica Brody asks, "What kind of research did
you have to do to bring Lori to life on the page?" (if you have been
hanging around my blog, you already know the answer to that one) AND
she's giving away THREE signed copies of Endless Summer this
Friday, so be sure to visit Free
Book Friday and sign up to win today or tomorrow.
A kind
book blogger has also posted an interview with me. YA
Book Queen asks, "If you could spend your summer doing anything
and at any place in the world, what would you do and where would you
be?"
Chick
Loves Lit and I
Want to Read That have posted very positive reviews of Endless
Summer--I am so grateful! And The
Crooked Shelf...well, let me just say this. Before I had a
novel published, I had no idea what being a published author would be
like. I never could have predicted the kindness of the blogosphere, full
of readers who will go out of their way to tell other people about your
books. But I could also not have predicted how difficult the job of a
novelist can sometimes be. There will be bad days. And on those days, I
hope every writer has a reader out there like Carla at The Crooked
Shelf. I think to myself, "Carla seems like a nice, upstanding British
lady AND she loves my books, so my career can't be TOO far into the
toilet." Of course, Carla has not posted a picture of herself on her
blog, so she may very well be an old man in prison.
Finally, my
neighbor JoAnn Weatherly has included me in such a kind post on the Southern
Magic blog. And speaking of Southern Magic, our June 26 meeting
in Birmingham, AL, will feature Angela James, Executive Editor at
Carina Press, which is the e-publishing arm of Harlequin. The public is
welcome but attendance is capped at 40, so read more about it here
and then e-mail Callie
if you want to come. I will see you there with my mother's very large
coffee pot.
Get more on Jennifer Echols at SimonandSchuster.com
Summer is in its SECOND PRINTING!!! This is a direct result of
YOU walking into a store and buying a copy, and I can't tell you how
much I appreciate you for doing this.
As a result, I have asked
my editor if I may write a third book about Adam and Lori, and she has
said MAYBE. It will depend on sales, but I think we're off to a great
start!
In addition, Going
Too Far has just gone into its SEVENTH PRINTING!!! Again, this
has nothing to do with me and everything to do with you, and I thank
you.
On the Girlfriends' Cyber Circuit, Stephanie Kuehnert asks, "Who
were some of your inspirations to become a writer or the inspirations
that keep you writing?" Jessica Brody asks, "What kind of research did
you have to do to bring Lori to life on the page?" (if you have been
hanging around my blog, you already know the answer to that one) AND
she's giving away THREE signed copies of Endless Summer this
Friday, so be sure to visit Free
Book Friday and sign up to win today or tomorrow.
A kind
book blogger has also posted an interview with me. YA
Book Queen asks, "If you could spend your summer doing anything
and at any place in the world, what would you do and where would you
be?"
Chick
Loves Lit and I
Want to Read That have posted very positive reviews of Endless
Summer--I am so grateful! And The
Crooked Shelf...well, let me just say this. Before I had a
novel published, I had no idea what being a published author would be
like. I never could have predicted the kindness of the blogosphere, full
of readers who will go out of their way to tell other people about your
books. But I could also not have predicted how difficult the job of a
novelist can sometimes be. There will be bad days. And on those days, I
hope every writer has a reader out there like Carla at The Crooked
Shelf. I think to myself, "Carla seems like a nice, upstanding British
lady AND she loves my books, so my career can't be TOO far into the
toilet." Of course, Carla has not posted a picture of herself on her
blog, so she may very well be an old man in prison.
Finally, my
neighbor JoAnn Weatherly has included me in such a kind post on the Southern
Magic blog. And speaking of Southern Magic, our June 26 meeting
in Birmingham, AL, will feature Angela James, Executive Editor at
Carina Press, which is the e-publishing arm of Harlequin. The public is
welcome but attendance is capped at 40, so read more about it here
and then e-mail Callie
if you want to come. I will see you there with my mother's very large
coffee pot.
Get more on Jennifer Echols at SimonandSchuster.com
June 9, 2010
More good news for Endless Summer!
Well, first of all, after only two weeks in stores,
Endless Summer
is in its SECOND PRINTING!!! This is a direct result of YOU walking into a store and buying a copy, and I can't tell you how much I appreciate you for doing this.As a result, I have asked my editor if I may write a third book about Adam and Lori, and she has said MAYBE. It will depend on sales, but I think we're off to a great start!
In addition, Going Too Far has just gone into its SEVENTH PRINTING!!! Again, this has nothing t...
June 7, 2010
Public Shame Writing Challenge: Week 1 check-in!
Sorry. On deadline. Will check back in soon. You check in and talk amongst yourselves.
