Robin Antalek's Blog, page 8

loose ends

One daughter graduating high school, the other eighth grade - we've been crazy this month tying up all the loose ends, except we're really not.  This unraveling is just a part of life.  Thinking we're controlling it is our way of dealing....
I've been working on a new manuscript about a mother and daughter who have to say goodbye for good.  Except the mother isn't quite done teaching her daughter everything she'll need to know.
Even with ( I hope) a full lifetime ahead of me to complete this task.

I Wrote That?

Going through the copy edits from Harper's is an eye-opening process.  Their job is different from the editor's who bought my book.  Basically, the copy editor gets the manuscript on the way to production and checks for grammar, punctuation, continuity, repetitive words, that the character gets on the right subway car route or mentions the correct address - all the niggling details that can trip someone up as they read if they're not absolutely correct.  I'm sure, on their end, it's an especiall

It's Official

From Harper Perennial, the title of my book is now officially: YOU SHOULD HAVE SAID HELLO....I love it!

Time To Go

Saturday morning at the Farmer's Market I stopped to talk with a fellow mom in my older daughter's class.  With one week to go to graduation our conversation quickly veered down the path of: Where has the time gone?  Soon, our children, these babies that only yesterday (or so it seemed) needed us for everything, would be gone and on their way to starting lives of their own.
This woman shared with me her own story of leaving home, how, a few weeks after her high school graduation, she was travelin

Sounds Good To Me

From Publisher's Marketplace:
Robin Antalek's Things I Wanted To Do Today,  about four siblings trying to grow up and out of their dysfunctional family by making peace with their past and with each other.
Thanks, PM, I couldn't have said it better myself!!

Hello My Name Is

The space between selling a book and publishing a book is strange.  I mean, the hard part is done, right? The writing and then getting someone to fall in love with it enough to publish it - well, that's like climbing Everest.  Until you start to realize that the publishing house would actually like someone to buy it and read it which means, unless you are famous, you're going to have to have to push away from the comfort zone of your desk and start introducing yourself and your book to the world