Meagan Spooner's Blog, page 152
July 31, 2014
Dear Tumblr hivemind: Is there a way to view only the activities that involve actual interactions?...
Dear Tumblr hivemind: Is there a way to view only the activities that involve actual interactions? My activity tab is basically a huge block of “so and so has reblogged/liked your post” with the occasional response and/or direct tagging here and there, and it takes forever to wade through all the others to find the ones where people are saying things in response/to me. I’d like to be able to keep track of those more easily so I can answer folks and respond when they tag me a...
July 30, 2014
When I saw this movie in theaters back in high school I just...
When I saw this movie in theaters back in high school I just started crying halfway through it, and kept up this sort of low-intensity background sobbing the whole rest of the film. Not because it was sad, though. It was more because it was so very beautiful that my brain just sort of shorted out—incapable of containing that much beautiful all in one place, my mind had to let it out by any means necessary.
Men: If Orange is the New Black is so good with representation, why are all the men horrible?
Women: They're not all horrible. Bennett's nice. What more do you want?
Men: But he's clueless and irresponsible! And that's just ONE guy! How can you give me ONE decent male character in a slew of diverse female characters and call THAT representation?
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Women: ...must be tough.
I like your books and don't take this the wrong way, but I think you should take a class for romance writers. I found myself torn between Linden and Gabriel and Rhine didn't seem very warm to either of them, even at the end. Not that the ending wasn't happ
Thanks for the tip. It’s really a shame that there isn’t a class that can teach people that just because I’m a female and I write stories does not mean I’m a romance author.
From the start, Rhine’s mission was to regain her freedom. If she was in love with anything, it was that. Love is a thing that happens in her story. A thing. Not THE thing.
July 17, 2014
If you’re just hearing about my international Reader…
If you’re just hearing about my international Reader Appreciation Giveaway for the first time, don’t worry! It’s not even halfway over yet. We’ve had two our of the four weekly drawings, whose winners have chosen a signed copy ofSkylarkand a signed copy ofLark Ascending, and the grand prize (a package of ALL the above books, including the advance reader copy ofThis Shattered World) is still open. Winners for that will be drawn at the very end of the month.
Remember that while newsletter subs...
July 9, 2014
A Reluctant Star, Sia Deals With Fame On Her Own Terms
Sia says a lot of pop songs follow certain formulas, contain certain universal themes. There’s “victim to victory.”
"The ‘victim to victory’ theory," she says, "is that, if you listen to the radio, a large percentage of the hits are … about victim to victory, like ‘I’m having a terrible time.’ And then the pre-chrous is ‘I don’t know what’s gonna happen next.’ And the chorus is, ‘Now I’m brilliant, and everything is great, because somethi...
July 7, 2014
The newsletter I share with amiekaufman went out this morning….
The newsletter I share with amiekaufman went out this morning. Over the months we’ve had numerous reports of subscribers only occasionally receiving the newsletter, and this month I’m going to do my best to troubleshoot that. To do so, I need YOUR help!
So if you were subscribed as of 11am EST today, July 7, but youdidn’tget this morning’s newsletter, the first thing to do is search your spam folder. If you find our email in your spam folder, try adding us (starboundtrilogy [at] gmail [dot] co...
April 15, 2014
No apologies for writing sad things.
So this is a question I got several days ago from a nice reader from France who thanked me for making her cry. (This is the best kind of email.) Then she went on to ask this:
Sometimes do you feel bad when you give sorrow to your readers?
I was going to toss off a quick “No! MUAHAHAHA!” in response, but it was late and I was tired and I went to bed instead. And then I woke up the next morning thinking about the question. Because it’s one I’ve gotten before, and one I’ve seen other authors get a...
April 5, 2014
Aurealis Award Winner!
These Broken Starshas won Australia’s most prestigious science-fiction and fantasy award, the Aurealis Award for Best Young Adult Novel! Read more about ithere.
Aurealis Award winners announced!
BEST YOUNG ADULT NOVEL
The Big Dry by Tony Davies (Harper Collins)
Hunting by Andrea Host(self-published)
These Broken Stars by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner(Allen & Unwin)
Fairytales for Wilde Girls by Allyse Near(Random House Australia)
The Sky So Heavy by Claire Zorn (University of Queensland Press)
I woke up this morning to find the news in my inbox and absolutely thought Amie was messing with me. It’s taken a few hours of refreshing things and l...
