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March 17, 2010
YA Rebels Query Contest!
So over on the YA Rebels, we're hosting our first contest. Actually, there are two contests. The first is our Query Critique contest – simply go to one of our videos this week (starting with Gretchen's on Monday), and post a comment with the word ENTRY and then your best/favorite line that you've written. The winner will get their query critiqued by all 7 of us, which is a whole lot of wisdom. (Or at least a little bit of wisdom and some crazy).
The SECOND contest is Twitter-based, and is ...
February 21, 2010
A Photo Contest & Submissions Talk
I've been a bad blogger. However, this is not entirely my fault. Things have been crazy busy/annoying around here, and part of that involved taking a pretty significant step back from the computer for a little while. So while I keep MEANING to blog, I always put it aside since I'm working on other things.
Down below you can check out my video from this week's YA Rebels – the topic was the Submission Process. Like I say in the video, I didn't have any really fun stories (and I was...
February 6, 2010
So Far Behind
So I realize I MIGHT look like I've been neglecting this blog lately. I could certainly see why you would THINK that. But trust me, its not true! I started cleaning up the links on the side! And I updated some spelling errors! That's progress!
I have been busy for the last month working on MOONSET and dealing with the pesky Real Life. Let's just hope that January was one last little Real Life fluke leftover from the year that was 2009 and call it a day. 
As some of you may know, I...
January 11, 2010
Confronting Superstitions
I am as superstitious as the next person when it comes to my writing. I must do it this way, I must clear that off my desk before I write. There's always something. Its something I think most of us can relate to. Everyone has their writing foibles, bad habits, quirks, or superstitions.
For the past 9 months or so, I've been struggling to break mine. Do you know what the worst one was? When I was working on edits for WITCH EYES for Colleen (way back at the end of 2008), I would get on...
January 4, 2010
Just One Question
Why are you reading this blog right now? Why aren't you out buying the FANTASTIC Some Girls Are by Courtney Summers?
Seriously, go check it out! I've ordered my copy! Click the picture to go to the Amazon page for SGA.
Warning: Do NOT think that this is one of those books you can "just read a few chapters before bed." Won't happen. You will start reading, and then you will finish reading hours later. Regina grabs you by the throat and shows you what high school can really be like.
And...
December 31, 2009
End of the Year Thoughts
It has been…a year. Its totally cliche to say this has been a year of highs and lows, but it seriously has. It's been a year of reflection for me – realizing that what doesn't kill me really DOES make me stronger. And that things happen for a reason. Its been a big year for balance for me – there were bad and good things that have happened, but all in all the good and the bad have equaled out.
Hmm. I wonder how many cliched sayings I can fit into one blog post.
Without going into details...
December 11, 2009
Agent Appreciation Day
My agent is the type who – when she's in the middle of a particularly tense scene – has TALKED TO the characters despite the fact that she was in public. This is the anecdote that I think won me over in the beginning.
Colleen has been my agent for almost a year and a half now, she sold my first two novels to Flux a few months ago, and throughout all that time, she has never, ever wavered in her love and support for my book. She's been an advocate for me, she's listened to me ramble on the...
December 9, 2009
The Grimm Off
It's time for the Grimm Off!
My friend and incredibly talented author, Victoria Schwab (whose book, THE NEAR WITCH debuts in 2011 with Hyperion), was stressing one night. She was upset because she hadn't written anything, so I told her to write me a fairy tale. I even gave her a prompt to help her get started. Of course this backfired and she expected ME to return the favor. And then things spiraled out of control, we were having some sort of contest, my...
December 7, 2009
Fairy Tales, Rebellion, & Some Teasing
I don't know how it started*, but now I'm in a contest against one of my very favorite writers, Victoria Schwab (author of THE NEAR WITCH, coming out from Hyperion in Winter 2011). Each of us has to write a dark fairy tale using certain prompts. So for the next week, my focus is split on writing a short story involving 'clocks' and 'a seaside town' and having it done and ready next Wednesday. And I accidentally kinda forgot all about it this weekend amidst everything else I had to do –...
December 1, 2009
A Couple of Videos
Just a quick update to share two really cool videos.
The first is an Spanish promo for the final season of Lost. It's fan-made, has no new footage, but its still really awesome. Chances are if you're a Lost fan you've already seen this around the internet somewhere.
The second is more personal. A writer friend sent me an email the other day mentioning my agent, and a book she thought was mine. So I went and watched the video, and sure enough it was Colleen talking about the road to selling...
