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July 26, 2010

Fantasy Book Teams World Series--YOU VOTE on the Winner!

You guys rawk! Thanks for contributing your teams for the World Series of Books! :) This has seriously been so much fun; we may have to do this again... *plots & schemes*



OK, without further ado, meet the teams!



Storyqueen's Team Click here to meet Storyqueen   Hero-Max (from Where the Wild Things Are)



Love Interest- Eloise (from Eloise)



Arch-Nemesis- Sam-I-Am (From Green Eggs and Ham)



Setting-Paris (from Madeline)



Plot-(From How the Grinch Stole Christmas) Max and Eloise are plotting t...
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Published on July 26, 2010 09:51

July 22, 2010

Fantasy Book Team

You've all heard of fantasy baseball, right? That's where you pick your favorite players for positions across all the teams, group them together, watch their stats during the Season and see if your fantasy team would have beat out other people's fantasy teams.



Well, baseball stats involve numbers, and we all know I can barely add. So I'm out for fantasy baseball. But after seeing Alan Gratz's new cover for his book Fantasy Baseball, (<--click for the fun blurb!) I started thinking: what...
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Published on July 22, 2010 22:00

July 21, 2010

Bookanista Feature: Brenna Yovanoff's THE REPLACEMENT



The Bookanistas are a group of writers - in various stages of the publishing process – who have decided to band together and review the special books of our peers.  No negative reviews here! We post every Thursday and cover various topics– upcoming ARCs, books we love, special diamonds in the rough, classics, and even cover reviews.



Here is a list of the Bookanistas: Christina Fonseca, Jamie Harrington, Michelle Hodkin, Kirsten Hubbard, Shelli Johannes-Wells, Myra McEntire, Shanno...
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Published on July 21, 2010 21:05

Live-Writing: A Day in the Life of a Full-Time Writer

So I looked up and realized that it was Wednesday. Well, crap. Where did the week go? I had such big plans--namely nailing down about ten chapters--and I've not done any of them.



I have a list of excuses, some of them valid. See, I'm just starting this full-time writer gig, and I've not quite gotten down a pattern yet. I actually have the next ten-ish chapters planned out, and I tend to not be excited about writing when I know what happens next. I prefer every writing day to be an ADVENTURE ...
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Published on July 21, 2010 07:18

July 16, 2010

From this side of the fence

So I was reading BookEnds post on what NOT to put in a query letter. My first thought in reading these was "Well, duh. Obviously you shouldn't do that stuff."



Then my second thought was, "Wait. Wait. I almost did do some of that stuff. What was I thinking?!"



And I remembered then, what it was like to write a query letter cold. I had no--absolutely zero--things going for me in the query department. I had no great recommendations, referrals, conference connections or other "ins" that would ma...
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Published on July 16, 2010 10:27

July 15, 2010

Bookanista Feature: Julia Karr's XVI

The Bookanistas are a group of writers - in various stages of the publishing process – who have decided to band together and review the special books of our peers. We – as fellow writers – have decided to only post positive reviews, therefore, only reviewing the book we LOVE. No negative reviews here! We post every Thursday and cover various topics– upcoming ARCs, books we love, special diamonds in the rough, classics, and even cover reviews.



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Published on July 15, 2010 09:52

July 13, 2010

Operation Joy 2 the World: Ghana, Love, and Prizes

[image error] Candy of The Misadventures in Candyland is well known for being super cool and having great taste in music. She's combined those two attribute for something very important: supporting New Medicine bassist Matt Brady in his Joy 2 the World mission to provide microloans to needy women in Ghana.



I'm all in favor of the microloan charity, a popular feature in my favorite charity, World Vision. Basically, what a microloan does is provide a needy woman with the funds she requires to held make hers...
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Published on July 13, 2010 08:30

July 12, 2010

You can't make this stuff up.

You just CAN'T.







Y'all, these are my PEOPLE. I mean, not that I'm related to them--just that this happened a few miles up the road.  Welcome to my home. Where the toothless rednecks spot bigfoot, draw a picture of him, and name him Knobby.







Y'all, this got on CNN. It's all anyone can talk about.



I love my home!
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Published on July 12, 2010 10:00

July 9, 2010

Congrats and Celebrations!

Yanno, when I woke up this morning, I thought "I don't really have anything to blog about, I think I'll just take a day off."



Then I found an awesome contest, an awesome poster....and now I just heard some more awesome news. So I'll just spam you guys with three posts instead of none!



ANYWAY: Recently my good friend Jodi Meadows announced that she got a three book deal with Katherine Teagan Books, starting with the wonderfully amazing ERIN INCARNATE. Hurrah! ERIN INCARNATE is wonderful AND ...
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Published on July 09, 2010 07:51