Ellyn Oaksmith's Blog, page 11
October 31, 2014
Did my 10th Act of Kindness Work? It's kinda scary....
Did my 10th Act of Kindness Work? It’s kinda scary….
(Promoting my upcoming book, Fifty Acts of Kindness (Feb. 2015). Fifty Acts of Kindness to complete strangers.)
Three days a week I am in a room full of naked women. Relax everyone. I swim laps. College athletes (I rowed crew) get used to this stuff and realize that the oddest conversations can happen while in the shower or lockeroom. Last week I overheard someone on the Master’s Swim team, a…
October 28, 2014
The Post I Thought I'd Never Write -- The Power of No
The Post I Thought I’d Never Write — The Power of No
What the what?
My dad is part Norwegian. He ran a fishing boat when he was 14 and his life is hunky dory unless he’s dragging a dead limb while being chased by Zombies. I try to be the same way.
So today when I decided, on the advise of a very savvy and respected bestselling author, to tell two publishers and a couple of agents that I was keeping my new title, Fifty Acts of Kindness, after they’d…
October 26, 2014
Big News and Last Day for BIG BOOK CONTEST
Oh heavens, today is the last day to win 21 books at Girlfriend’s Book Club!!!
http://girlfriendsbookclub.org/contests/
The new cover for Divine Moves anticipating the publication of Fifty Acts of Kindness, which will be available for ore-order soon.
Voila:
You heard it here first. Will be up on Amazon tomorrow. Yes, it’s this little Seattle bookseller online you might have heard of if you’re…
October 22, 2014
Why Writers Go Nuts: Three Good Reasons
Why Writers Go Nuts: Three Good Reasons
Maybe it’s nap time?
I’m going to do what I tell other writers to never do: write public posts while exhausted and sleep deprived. Although my husband tells me that I am always this way, my YA novel Chasing Nirvana is, by nature of the premise, very intense. Reason # 1: intense subject matter.
Yesterday I wrote a scene that started with my young gay character getting her hands on supposedly sold…
October 20, 2014
Dear Teen Thinking About Sex: Think about Dogs
Dear Teen Thinking About Sex: Think about Dogs
Okay, I know in the moment you aren’t going to think this but here’s the thing: use birth control. Because if you bring a baby into the world thinking it’s going to love you, you’re wrong. Think about your parents. How dumb and stressed out and harried they are. Now multiply this by a thousand because you’re a teenager. Not that you’re stupid, because you aren’t. But right now you’re supposed to…
October 18, 2014
What's it like Writing About Nirvana? (Intense)
Chasing Nirvana is my YA (young adult) work in progress. Writing it is like being dragged behind a train. Yes, I know writing isn’t that hard. It’s not coal mining or working on a crab boat in the Aleutian Sea (which I have done.) But sometimes when I am in the mind of a teenaged girl obessed with Nirvana, living in Aberdeen in 1993 and feeling trapped because she’s gay and everyone hates her,…
October 17, 2014
Our BIG BOOK GIVEAWAY October 12-26th! (including...
Our BIG BOOK GIVEAWAY October 12-26th! (including Divine Moves)
"Oh my heavens! So many books, so little time!" I’m only going to say this 9 more times!
October 15, 2014
Why Do I Write Comedy? 3 Reasons: All From Last Night
Why Do I Write Comedy? 3 Reasons: All From Last Night
Thrills and real spills!
Discussing anything on the main floor of our open concept house is tricky at best. Add one coughing teen, another doing homework (sort of), a new chubby rescue cat doing laps around the dog and a spouse who wants to run through his day in 30 seconds or less. Then there’s me, sitting on a chair, gingerly because after injuring my arm in the pool, swimming laps training…
October 13, 2014
(via My Fellow Blogger’s First Time Launching A New Series...
(via My Fellow Blogger’s First Time Launching A New Series Starts Today!) A funny smart look at comedy, murder and a do-gooder who just doesn’t know when to quit. Check it out: Merit Badge Murders
