Jackson Pearce's Blog, page 36

SISTERS RED is TAKING OVER THE WORLD!

The following is EXCITING to me:

SISTERS RED has sold Italian, Spanish, and Arabic rights. ARABIC! How crazy is that? That means my book will be printed in a language I don't have even the tiniest, smallest clue how to read.

I keep waiting for this feeling to fade or become normal, but every time I hear about a new foreign rights sale I want to jump and cheer and act like a total loser/way unprofessional (since I'm pretty sure I'm supposed to smile and nod and eat a croissant and act like this ...

Bookcases

Yesterday I met Anni, a librarian who interviewed me for the Gwinnett County Public Library site! Sadly, before I met Anni I forgot to warn her about two things:
1) I hug like it's going out of style.
2) I am founder of The Awkward Club for Awkward People

Hopefully, Anni will not write up weird things about me as a result of that.

So anyhow, on my last video someone commented on my bookshelves. I kind of collect books. Even if I read a book and don't like it, I usually keep it. I like having this...

Hey there...

1) Either there is a dinosaur outside, someone is blasting dinosaur sounds through a speaker system, or that construction crew has found the perfect tool to use in the next Jurassic Park movie.

2) I keep organizing my book shelf. Then reorganizing it. This must end.

3) THIS DAMN HISTORICAL NOVEL WITHOUT A TITLE has been officially picked up again, and it is just as hard to write as it was before. Isn't practice supposed to make writing EASIER? Because wow. This is hard. *Powers through*

4) It is...

The LAST DEBSNESS!

The last one EVER! Can you believe it!?

Space Dog

Space Dog sez:
Please to stop writing and play now, kthx?

Bored

OMG it is raining.
And raining.
And raining.

And I know I should be using this forced-indoors time to write, but I'm totally sitting here at the computer and eating chocolate croissants and pretending I'm being productive when I'm really just looking at YouTube and checking my email over and over.
Author FAIL.

Improv Everywhere WIN:






Um...back to writing now. Yep. Oh look, more youtube...

Books I bought for the cover

I am very, very, very bad about sometimes buying books not for the story, but for the cover. I really admire new, innovative, and beautiful cover design because I can tell how hard it is to be any of those things with a sea of other books already out and a limited budget. So when a cover DOES manage to be new/innovative/beautiful...I must own it. Examples:



I WAS TOLD THERE'D BE CAKE by Sloane Crosley
I've mentioned this cover on the blog before-- and I still haven't finished the book. It's real...

SISTERS RED giveaway!

NanoFAIL

Okay, people-- I've now officially lost at Nanowrimo. I had to take a few days off to figure out some plot bits here and there, and then Thanksgiving, and...there you have it. It only takes a few days off to get so woefully behind you're beyond repair.

That said, I still really think Nanowrimo is a great thing, and am not sad that I gave it a shot again this year. And here's why:

-Nanowrimo encourages people who are scared to write to shut-up-and-write-already. Sometimes writing seems like this...

Still Nano-ing

I've been a terrible blogger lately, but it's not my fault, I swear. I've just been Nano-ing. I know I said I wasn't doing it officially, but then I got all competitive and started entering my word count in that little progress bar and got caught up and...well. Now I'm in.

I'm at that point though where I'm very,very excited about the mss, which is titled THE DAMN HISTORICAL NOVEL WITH NO TITLE. Okay, that's not *really* the title, but seriously, it's gone through like seven titles and none of...