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October 15, 2010
Follow My Book Blog Friday!
To join the fun and make now book blogger friends, just follow these simple rules:
1. Follow the Follow My Book Blog Friday Host { Parajunkee.com } and any one else you want to follow on the list
2. Follow our Featured Bloggers - betweenthecoversblog.net
3. Put your Blog name & URL in the Linky thing.
4. Grab the button up there and place it in a post, this post is for people to find a place to say hi in your comments
5. Follow Follow Follow as many as you can
6. If someone comments and says they are following you, be a dear and follow back. Spread the Love...and the followers
7. If you want to show the link list, just follow the link below the entries and copy and paste it within your post!
8. If your new to the follow friday hop, comment and let me know, so I can stop by and check out your blog!
Happy Follow Friday!
NEW! Follow it up with your twitter address if you want to get that one out!
"When you read a book that you just can't get into, do you stick it out and keep reading or move to your next title?"I stick it out until the end if I can. I believe that every novel deserves a chance and you never know what novel just might redeem itself later on.
Here is my novel, The Thirteenth Chime:
Folllow My Book Blog Friday!
To join the fun and make now book blogger friends, just follow these simple rules:
1. Follow the Follow My Book Blog Friday Host { Parajunkee.com } and any one else you want to follow on the list
2. Follow our Featured Bloggers - betweenthecoversblog.net
3. Put your Blog name & URL in the Linky thing.
4. Grab the button up there and place it in a post, this post is for people to find a place to say hi in your comments
5. Follow Follow Follow as many as you can
6. If someone comments and says they are following you, be a dear and follow back. Spread the Love...and the followers
7. If you want to show the link list, just follow the link below the entries and copy and paste it within your post!
8. If your new to the follow friday hop, comment and let me know, so I can stop by and check out your blog!
Happy Follow Friday!
NEW! Follow it up with your twitter address if you want to get that one out!
"When you read a book that you just can't get into, do you stick it out and keep reading or move to your next title?"I stick it out until the end if I can. I believe that every novel deserves a chance and you never know what novel just might redeem itself later on.
Here is my novel, The Thirteenth Chime:
October 12, 2010
Teaser Tuesday: Spider's Bite
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:• Grab your current read • Open to a random page • Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn't give too much away! You don't want to ruin the book for others!) • Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
My Teaser:
"A man's face flashed in front of my eyes. Chocolate skin, curly hair, a dimpled smile, and black eyes that were even colder than mine."
Spider's Bite by Jennifer Estep - Page 228
My Teaser:
"A man's face flashed in front of my eyes. Chocolate skin, curly hair, a dimpled smile, and black eyes that were even colder than mine."
Spider's Bite by Jennifer Estep - Page 228
October 10, 2010
"Project to Published" The 5 P's of Publishing
"Project to Published"(almost) Every Sunday
The 5 P's of Publishing
Recently, I headed down to California and had a signing at the Orange County Children's Book Festival, which is why, for the first time ever, I missed my "Project to Published" post last week. After I was done with the signing (I sold out of copies of The Thirteenth Chime!) I started adventuring out and interviewing fellow authors, asking them what advice they would give to aspiring authors. I received many wonderful answers that I will be sharing at a later date (I am working on the video interviews I did that day!) but the reoccurring themes I continued to hear really inspired me so I have created the new Project to Published P's:
1. Practice
2. Perseverance
3. Patience
4. Proactive
5. Precious
Practice
The more you write, the better of a writer you will become. This is true for any muscle you work or exercise you undertake - the more you do, the better you become. Write every day, even if you are busy. I have found that I really look forward to the time I spend writing each day.
Perseverance
One of my favorite quotes of the day was "You can't give up. As soon as you do, you aren't an author anymore." I was asked many times at the book festival how I became a published author. Each time I answered the same way - don't give up. Becoming a writer is easy, but becoming an author can take years of hard work.
Patience
The publishing industry is a hard market to get into, filled with strong competition, elusive opportunities and a large literary mountain to climb in order to reach the top. In many ways, writers are a lot like mountain climbers in that we each have to struggle to reach that next ledge, knowing we have come so far and yet have so far to go. Just remember that once you reach the top, you will have an extraordinary view waiting for you.
Proactive
No matter how you say this (early bird catches the worm, never giving up, going for the gold, etc.) the point is to not wait and go for it! Think of the tortoise and the hare - why did the tortoise win? It took the tortoise a long time to finish the race, but the hare waiting ended his chances.
Precious
The life of musicians and actors have been open to public awareness and scrutiny for decades. Musicians and actors are always on the road, going from place to place, gig to gig, job to job. However, few know of the author's life, or what he or she goes through during a literary career. Writing is easy - being an author is hard. It's hard because the initial challenges that we're faced with, involve writing the book and getting published. But once there, the true journey begins, taking an author throughout the nation and at times the world. Just remember - your writing is something precious and unique. Always keep it that way!
The journey of becoming an author begins with a decision to go for it. Never give up and keep trying - you will get to the top!
The 5 P's of Publishing
Recently, I headed down to California and had a signing at the Orange County Children's Book Festival, which is why, for the first time ever, I missed my "Project to Published" post last week. After I was done with the signing (I sold out of copies of The Thirteenth Chime!) I started adventuring out and interviewing fellow authors, asking them what advice they would give to aspiring authors. I received many wonderful answers that I will be sharing at a later date (I am working on the video interviews I did that day!) but the reoccurring themes I continued to hear really inspired me so I have created the new Project to Published P's:
1. Practice
2. Perseverance
3. Patience
4. Proactive
5. Precious
Practice
The more you write, the better of a writer you will become. This is true for any muscle you work or exercise you undertake - the more you do, the better you become. Write every day, even if you are busy. I have found that I really look forward to the time I spend writing each day.
Perseverance
One of my favorite quotes of the day was "You can't give up. As soon as you do, you aren't an author anymore." I was asked many times at the book festival how I became a published author. Each time I answered the same way - don't give up. Becoming a writer is easy, but becoming an author can take years of hard work.
Patience
The publishing industry is a hard market to get into, filled with strong competition, elusive opportunities and a large literary mountain to climb in order to reach the top. In many ways, writers are a lot like mountain climbers in that we each have to struggle to reach that next ledge, knowing we have come so far and yet have so far to go. Just remember that once you reach the top, you will have an extraordinary view waiting for you.
Proactive
No matter how you say this (early bird catches the worm, never giving up, going for the gold, etc.) the point is to not wait and go for it! Think of the tortoise and the hare - why did the tortoise win? It took the tortoise a long time to finish the race, but the hare waiting ended his chances.
Precious
The life of musicians and actors have been open to public awareness and scrutiny for decades. Musicians and actors are always on the road, going from place to place, gig to gig, job to job. However, few know of the author's life, or what he or she goes through during a literary career. Writing is easy - being an author is hard. It's hard because the initial challenges that we're faced with, involve writing the book and getting published. But once there, the true journey begins, taking an author throughout the nation and at times the world. Just remember - your writing is something precious and unique. Always keep it that way!
The journey of becoming an author begins with a decision to go for it. Never give up and keep trying - you will get to the top!
October 7, 2010
OCCBF and Follow My Book Blog Friday!
OMG! The Orange County Children's Book Festival was a blast and went perfectly! The Thirteenth Chime SOLD OUT!!! It was so amazing and I met so many amazing people! Including these two beautiful women Becca Fitzpatrick and Heidi R. Kling:
Maria V. Snyder, Nancy Holder, T. K. Richardson, Lisa Desrochers, some absolutely amazing bloggers and more! I also took some videos you will get to see later hopefully and got signed copies! YEAY! Can hardly wait to tell you more about it!!!
To join the fun and make now book blogger friends, just follow these simple rules:
Follow the Follow My Book Blog Friday Host { Parajunkee.com } and any one else you want to follow on the listFollow our Featured Bloggers - seducedbybooks.blogspot.com Put your Blog name & URL in the Linky thing.Grab the button up there and place it in a post, this post is for people to find a place to say hi in your commentsFollow Follow Follow as many as you canIf someone comments and says they are following you, be a dear and follow back. Spread the Love...and the followersIf you want to show the link list, just follow the link below the entries and copy and paste it within your post! If your new to the follow friday hop, comment and let me know, so I can stop by and check out your blog! Happy Follow Friday!
NEW! Follow it up with your twitter address if you want to get that one out!
Add your linky on the original hosts site.
The Blog Hop question for today: What's your favorite beverage while reading or blogging, if any? Is it tea, coffee, water, a glass of wine, or something else?
If I am not drinking my normal water then I normally am having tea! I LOVE Green Tea or Earl Grey!
My Question: What would you like to see authors do at their signings? What swag do you hope they will give away that you don't see very often?
Sincerely,Emma Michaels
P.S.- Did some fun image editing:
Maria V. Snyder, Nancy Holder, T. K. Richardson, Lisa Desrochers, some absolutely amazing bloggers and more! I also took some videos you will get to see later hopefully and got signed copies! YEAY! Can hardly wait to tell you more about it!!!
To join the fun and make now book blogger friends, just follow these simple rules:
Follow the Follow My Book Blog Friday Host { Parajunkee.com } and any one else you want to follow on the listFollow our Featured Bloggers - seducedbybooks.blogspot.com Put your Blog name & URL in the Linky thing.Grab the button up there and place it in a post, this post is for people to find a place to say hi in your commentsFollow Follow Follow as many as you canIf someone comments and says they are following you, be a dear and follow back. Spread the Love...and the followersIf you want to show the link list, just follow the link below the entries and copy and paste it within your post! If your new to the follow friday hop, comment and let me know, so I can stop by and check out your blog! Happy Follow Friday!
NEW! Follow it up with your twitter address if you want to get that one out!
Add your linky on the original hosts site.
The Blog Hop question for today: What's your favorite beverage while reading or blogging, if any? Is it tea, coffee, water, a glass of wine, or something else?
If I am not drinking my normal water then I normally am having tea! I LOVE Green Tea or Earl Grey!
My Question: What would you like to see authors do at their signings? What swag do you hope they will give away that you don't see very often?
Sincerely,Emma Michaels
P.S.- Did some fun image editing:
September 29, 2010
Important announcement!
Hey everybody!
I wanted to give you a heads up about my new blog that will be more book and personal oriented. I will still be doing all of my normal posts here including my reviews, project to published and more but I will also be doing more personal posts on my new blog: http://emmamichaels.tumblr.com/
Including personal blogs about live, information about all signings, pictures from signings or with authors, fun quotes I find in novels or around the web and just about anything that strikes my fancy. This blog will remain as it always has I just figured that most of the people who follow this blog follow it for the reviews and books but I have had some fan mail about people wanting to get to know the real me and don't want to overload my review blog with that information for anyone who isn't interested. Here is the link and I hope you will visit!
http://emmamichaels.tumblr.com/
I have already done a post about O.C. and will be posting the images as the even progresses. I have my VIP passes for being one of the authors but they also gave me a press pass! YEAY!
Sincerely,
Emma Michaels
I wanted to give you a heads up about my new blog that will be more book and personal oriented. I will still be doing all of my normal posts here including my reviews, project to published and more but I will also be doing more personal posts on my new blog: http://emmamichaels.tumblr.com/
Including personal blogs about live, information about all signings, pictures from signings or with authors, fun quotes I find in novels or around the web and just about anything that strikes my fancy. This blog will remain as it always has I just figured that most of the people who follow this blog follow it for the reviews and books but I have had some fan mail about people wanting to get to know the real me and don't want to overload my review blog with that information for anyone who isn't interested. Here is the link and I hope you will visit!
http://emmamichaels.tumblr.com/
I have already done a post about O.C. and will be posting the images as the even progresses. I have my VIP passes for being one of the authors but they also gave me a press pass! YEAY!
Sincerely,
Emma Michaels
September 27, 2010
Teaser Tuesday: Tempted by PC Cast and Kristin Cast
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
• Grab your current read • Open to a random page • Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn't give too much away! You don't want to ruin the book for others!) • Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
My Teaser:
"A terrible noise, like a heartbroken child's cry, pierced the night, and my gaze, which had been fixed on the grisly pyre, shifted to a place near the head of the bench. Dragon Lankford was there on his knees."
Tempted (House of Night #6) – page 164
• Grab your current read • Open to a random page • Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn't give too much away! You don't want to ruin the book for others!) • Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
My Teaser:
"A terrible noise, like a heartbroken child's cry, pierced the night, and my gaze, which had been fixed on the grisly pyre, shifted to a place near the head of the bench. Dragon Lankford was there on his knees."
Tempted (House of Night #6) – page 164
September 25, 2010
Project to Published: Three tips and Tera Lynn Childs
Three tips and Tera Lynn Childs
Many of you may have heard of the author Tera Lynn Childs (Forgive My Fins, Fins Are Forever, Oh. My. Gods., Goddess Boot Camp). I asked her what advice she could give to starting authors and I loved her answer:
"Whenever an aspiring writer asks me for advice I tell them three things: 1. Read as much as possible, so you can learn how other writers use words to tell story. 2. Write as much as possible, so you can learn how you use words to tell story. 3. Become a...
Many of you may have heard of the author Tera Lynn Childs (Forgive My Fins, Fins Are Forever, Oh. My. Gods., Goddess Boot Camp). I asked her what advice she could give to starting authors and I loved her answer:
"Whenever an aspiring writer asks me for advice I tell them three things: 1. Read as much as possible, so you can learn how other writers use words to tell story. 2. Write as much as possible, so you can learn how you use words to tell story. 3. Become a...
September 22, 2010
Review: The Keening by A. LaFaye
Novel: The Keening
Author: A. LaFaye
Pages: 224
Genre: Young Adult
Born into a family with artistry in their fingers, Lyza laments that her only talent is carving letters into wood. That is until her life is turned upside down when her mother succumbs to the influenza pandemic of 1918, which is devastating their small coastal town in Maine. With her mother gone, Lyza must protect her eccentric father, who runs the risk of being committed, especially now that he claims he's waiting for the return ...
September 18, 2010
Project to Published: Characters, you gotta love em!
Project to PublishedEvery Sunday
Characters, you gotta love em!
Characters are like human beings. When you are writing characters, you want to be able to love them as you love a human being. You love them for everything they are and could be – their traits, character flaws and most importantly their potential. Although some may disagree with me over these characteristics and say that these are not good examples of people, we live in an imperfect world and our imperfections are what make us uniq...
Characters, you gotta love em!
Characters are like human beings. When you are writing characters, you want to be able to love them as you love a human being. You love them for everything they are and could be – their traits, character flaws and most importantly their potential. Although some may disagree with me over these characteristics and say that these are not good examples of people, we live in an imperfect world and our imperfections are what make us uniq...
