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Junior Library Guild

The Hunchback Assignments is officially a Junior Library Guild selection. This is so cool! And I was only hoping for Lollipop Guild membership! : ) It's especially pleasing to have a book that features the nefarious Clockwork Guild and the suspicious Permanent Association being recognized by a real guild in the real world.

The Junior Library Guild reads about 3000 books and selects 336 to be recommended to various libraries. Read more about the selection process (and see some cool graphics, to

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Hunchback DumpBins! Dumpbins! Dumpbins!

Isn't it funny the things an author gets excited about?

This is what the dump bins (that is the bins that are used to sell books in book stores) will look like in Australia. Very cool! It's like Modo is going to leap out at you if you don't buy the book. Finally, he's in 3D. I am disappointed that no one is going for my idea of a steam-powered, mechanical giant that picks up the customers, shakes out all their money and slides a book into their pocket. Apparently it's tooooo expensive!

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Sage Hill Day 12--the end, my friend

It's day 12 of being the facilitator of the "writing for young adults" lab at Sage Hill Writing Experience. Yep, it's over. It's done! 12 Days (11 for the students) of time to write, critique, laugh, listen to my mind numbing lectures, eat amazing food, write, rewrite, and play frisbee. To my calculations there were 2 broken arms, 2 broken legs, 1 slashed arm and six dead (Uh, I'm talking about characters in books, not students btw).

I'm blogging from home (must use treadmill desk to lose the wei

Cool, groovy, neato Hunchback Book Trailer

I was so pleased when Harpercollins sent the link to this. What a great bunch of readers!

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Lucky Day Seven

It's day x of being the facilitator of the "writing for young adults" lab at Sage Hill Writing Experience. Okay, I'm losing track. I think it's day nine right now, but I'm going to write about day seven which was the 20th Anniversary Celebration of Sage Hill. Yeah, Sage Hill is officially out of the teen years. The event, like all good events, started with a bit of banjo/drums/violin and singing. Just a typical day at Sage Hill.
Next we moved into the church to listen to Richard Ford's keynote a

Six six six days...

Day six. Must put fingers to keyboard. Must report to outside world. Must write about the "writing for young adults" lab at Sage Hill Writing Experience. Well today was individual meetings. All sorts of interesting discussions. Which character should I kill? Did I kill enough? Kill your darlings. Kill your not so darlings. A very murderous day.

Oh, the picture is of one of the "meditative structures" on St. Michael's land.

Later, Richard Ford spoke to us very eloquently about writing. It was a Q&

Day 5 and Still Alive

What Day is this? Oh yeah, it's day five of being the facilitator of the "writing for young adults" lab at Sage Hill Writing Experience. What fun we are having. We are really "labbing" it, I tell you what. Why today we discussed "triage" rewriting. That is picking the parts of your novel that need the most attention first and fixing them, then moving on to the next most "traumatic" section. Also we did that whole 3rd person critiquing, where as a group you critique a fellow writer's work but pre

steampunk aquasuit stylin'

A little bit more steampunky madness from the cover concept for The Dark Deeps (The Hunchback Assignments II)...


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