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February 13, 2011
That's It - I'm Putting My Dogs to Work
Thanks to SFC for pointing this out!
February 12, 2011
February 11, 2011
Free Copies of LEARNING TO SWIM at Read It Forward - Now Through Feb. 14
All you need to is sign in at the Read It Forward site for a chance to win - here's a bit from the post there:
While standing on the deck of the Lake Champlain ferry bound for Vermont, Troy Chance sees a small boy tossed over the side of a ferry going the opposite direction. Without thinking, she jumps to his rescue, setting off a chain of events that see her embroiled in a kidnapping plot with tendrils in the Adirondacks and Vermont as well as Ottawa and Montreal.
Download an excerpt...
A Twitter-worthy Interview & Giveaway
And kidlit writer A.L. Sonnichsen is running the world's shortest interview - with answers of 140 characters or less - , and a contest for a signed, personalized hardcover copy of Learning to Swim - runs from now until Friday, Feb. 18!How long did it take you to write this book?So go visit The Green Bathtub, and comment for a chance to win.
About seven months – the first time. Then I had to learn to rewrite, which at first involved a lot of staring at the pages.
Today, The Punching Bag Fights Back
Today I'm interviewed over at YA sci-fi writer Magan Vernon's The Punching Bag Fights Back, where I talk about getting an agent, meeting people through blogs, some amazing young writers out there (hello, Steph Bowe and Weronika Janczuk), why I Tweet, and more.
Note: If you "follow" my Facebook page, it makes my publisher happy.
Note: If you "follow" my Facebook page, it makes my publisher happy.
February 10, 2011
Wherein I Discuss What Writers I'd Want to Have Coffee with. And Other Things.
Sara, in Vermont
Today I'm visiting Adam Purple over at Writer, Not, where I talk about how I managed to get lovely blurbs from great writers, how this book got to publication, and what's in my desk drawer. Or not. An excerpt:
Q: This is your debut, but it is your first novel? Do you have others in your desk drawer?
Yes, it's my first novel, not counting the one I began in pencil in a composition book when I was 12. Mind you, this one lived in my drawer for a very long time before I p...
February 9, 2011
More LEARNING TO SWIM Novel Giveaways
Today I'm over at Punctuality Rules, where Deb Boyken interviews me about such things as whether I knit (I can, but the result ain't lovely) and what skill I'd like to acquire (I think knowing how to wire houses). And, yes, that probably is my favorite breakfast food, when I'm not eating oatmeal with crunchy peanut butter, that is.
Deb's giving away the advance copy she received - you just need to leave a comment - and on her other site, Booking Through Thursday, leave a comment to win a si...
Deb's giving away the advance copy she received - you just need to leave a comment - and on her other site, Booking Through Thursday, leave a comment to win a si...
February 8, 2011
Yes, It's the Two-Week-to-Launch Countdown
I would like to reassure you that I will soon start blogging about interesting or vaguely amusing things instead of MY BOOK IS COMING OUT, but it's not gonna happen. Doing blog appearances and arranging store visits and radio interviews is taking up every spare brain cell that isn't being used to finish off Book 2. Oh, and signing bookplates, which I have to remember to finish today.
The real Tiger dog
I will say that I was absurdly happy to learn from Neil Gaiman's blog that men, too, ...
The real Tiger dog
I will say that I was absurdly happy to learn from Neil Gaiman's blog that men, too, ...
February 7, 2011
A Cat, the Thunderdome, and a Contest Winner
I am still laughing at the contest winner selection method used by Quinn Cummings. (I do think we must be related somehow.)
If you are not the winner, never fear, there are a bunch of other contests running for my novel (which comes out February 22): here and here and here. And then, well, darn it, you'll just have to buy it or get it from your library.
If you are not the winner, never fear, there are a bunch of other contests running for my novel (which comes out February 22): here and here and here. And then, well, darn it, you'll just have to buy it or get it from your library.
Blog Tour Visit and an ARC Giveaway
If you could go back in time and tell yourself something you know now that you wish you would've known during the writing and editing phase of this book, what would that advice be?
That you can do it, even if you feel that your brain is going to break and this seems that it must be the stupidest book ever written. I'll quote my friend Michael Robotham here: "It's like sleeping in a two-man tent with your best friend for a year. And it doesn't matter how good a friend they are, you're j...
