Elizabeth Scott's Blog, page 20

thank you! and link-o-rama!

Thanks so much for all the amazing suggestions so far, and don't forget you have until midnight EST tomorrow, January 8th, to tell me what you think I should talk about in my first video blog for readergirlz!

Loads of links today:

Ever wondered what agents hate? Now you don't have to.

Really interesting article on advances--and be sure to read the response right below it as well

Borders is really and truly on shaky ground. I have my fingers crossed for them because as much as I love and respect i...

questions? questions?? (and yes, free books too!)

Okay, I'd like to do a video blog for my first readergirlz blog post, and following in Beth Kephart's shoes....well, she's Beth Kephart! So I was trying to think of what to do or say and then I thought--hey, why not ask the most awesome people I know????

So, if you knew you were going to see a video blog from me, what would you like to see in it? Are there questions you'd like me to answer? Things I should talk about? Foreign slang I should try and guess the meaning of and get totally wrong? (...

whee!

Normally, I try to post stuff about me and my books last just because it's how I am but I'm so excited about this it has to be first:

Starting on January 15th, I'll be the Author in Residence at Readergirlz!!!!! I am so thrilled by this that words can't really convey my happiness. (Although perhaps all the ! gave a hint or two away...)

Also, a huge thank you to everyone who suggested a song or songs for my books--the playlist put together by the Redergirlz team is ALL songs you suggested!!

I al...

ready...go!

This is a timed post because I have about three minutes to write it before I'm off to the copy edits. However! So far, my reward for working on the copy edits is going to the movies and I've seen Sherlock Holmes, which I enjoyed (Robert Downey, Jr. is tremendous) and Avatar, which was truly like nothing I've ever seen. It takes 3-D to a whole other level and if you get a chance to see it, it's so worth it.

What good movies have you seen recently?

Okay, timer is ticking, so here are the links:

Ed...

ah, nothing says the holidays like...copy edits???

This is going to be a short and sweet post as I'm currently neck deep in copy edits. But! I did have an amazing holiday, and I hope you did as well!

This was my favorite present--my mom went to a luncheon where Judy Blume was speaking, waited in line, and then got a copy of one of my fave Blume books, Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret, SIGNED! It was so amazing. My parents are awesome!

What's been your best holiday gift this year?

Before I head back to the copy edits, I do have a few links ...

Forget perfect, and embrace all the things that make *you* the amazing person you are!

This year, Jill, who runs Reading is Bliss, asked me to write a guest blog about the holidays and I was more than happy to do so.

You can read about what I love--and don't love-- about the holidays, and what I think is the most important thing to celebrate here.

And of course, although most of the blogs are pretty quiet, there's still a few links worth sharing:

Nathan Bransford is wondering how you start a new writing project--at over 150 comments, there's a lot to read here! (And I don't know ...

snow!

We had our first snow of the year, and I guess Mother Nature wanted to make up for those 70 degree days we were having in November because WOW! We got about twenty inches in a day, which is (I think) a record-breaker. (And if nothing else, it looked beautiful)

I love snow, but today we're entering into the one part of snow I don't like, and that's the part where patches of it have turned to ice and you have to be extra super careful walking. As someone who is, shall we say, less than naturally...

well, winter is finally here!

Winter--the actual cold weather and not seventy degrees passing itself as "winter" because there's a little breeze--has arrived. And I love it!

Also, and in completely unrelated news, my husband is now addicted to popchips, those potato chips that are air-popped. I don't know what it is about them, but last night he ate his third bag in three days (!) and then asked me if I wanted to go to the grocery store.

So he wanted to to the grocery store, right? Big deal.

Oh no, my friends. This is *unp...

I guess I meant speeding up!

Wow, was I wrong about industry blogs slowing down, as is witnessed by today's load of links.

Also, don't forget that you've got a little over a week left to get your holiday gift!!

The promised links:

Agent Kristin Nelson on the latest publishing dust-up plus more answers to reader questions (and the questions are really good!)

Jessica Faust on needing/having different agents for different genres

Guy Gavriel Kay talks about how book reviewing has changed (Yay for bloggers!!)

Rachel Aaron has a r...

mornings=urgh

Lately (okay, for the past two days), I've been getting up when my husband does, which is extremely, mind-numbingly early, in an attempt to get myself to exercise because I have been slacking very badly on that as of late.

I have to say, being so sleepy is rather helpful--it's like I'm too tired to protest, so I just exercise to get it over with. (I still don't know how people love exercise, but maybe that will kick in at some point???)

On the minus side of this equation, getting up so early m...