Cindy Young-Turner's Blog, page 25
July 10, 2011
Goodreads best book covers of 2011
Thief of Hope has been hovering around #58 on the Goodreads list of best book covers of 2011! If you're on GoodReads, please take a minute to vote for me: http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/7253.Best_Book_Covers_2011. Plus you can check out my book page: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11475620-thief-of-hope. Thanks!
June 24, 2011
Writing without a net
I'm the kind of person who writes without an outline. I've tried to use one. It ends up feeling too constrictive and then I never follow it anyway. Usually I have a general sense of where the story is going and a few plot points along the way, but I have no idea how I'm going to get there. This can be a little scary. For Thief of Hope, which I'd initially written a long time ago, I had to throw out most of the book and start over because I realized it needed a major overhaul. So I basically k...
June 11, 2011
Mommy is an author
My three-year-old daughter loves books. She's been learning about books at school and has come home saying, "this is the cover, this is the title page, this is the spine, we don't break the spine." Recently she said, "Who is the author? The author is the person who writes the book." Well, this time mommy is the author. I told her that and she just looked at me with a curious expression. My print books arrived this week (yay!!), so when I show her the book now she says "that's mommy's book." W...
June 3, 2011
CMP blog tour grand prize winner
Check out the Crescent Moon Press blog site for the grand prize winner of the blog tour! Thanks again to everyone who participated!
May 30, 2011
Memorial Day
I think the first time I ever read my work out loud to an audience was at a Memorial Day assembly in middle school. Our English class had been given an assignment to write a poem about our thoughts on Memorial Day. I took this very seriously because writing was already a passion. By then I'd proudly finished a 100-page novel based on my favorite GIJoe and Star Wars characters and was hard at work on what I was sure would be the next great American novel, an epic science fiction story...
May 29, 2011
Thief of Hope quest winner
Here's the correct answer for the Thief of Hope question:
What is another name for the faery folk: the Tuatha
Thanks to everyone who participated. The winner of this quest is Jeanne Johansen! Congratulations, Jeanne! She will receive these fun prizes:
A votive candle lantern (handy for navigating dark streets at night but not really a favorite of pickpockets)Beeswax candles (also handy for keeping the darkness at bay)Fragrant soaps (very useful after you've been arrested for said pickpocketing...May 23, 2011
Ebook is out!
Thief of Hope is now available for Kindle at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Thief-of-Hope-ebook/dp/B0051AUCZW/ref=pd_rhf_p_img_1
It's so exciting to see it up on Amazon. The print version should be out next month, which of course is what I'm really waiting for.
May 16, 2011
CMP blog tour
I'll be participating in the Crescent Moon Press Memorial Day weekend bash! It's a great opportunity to visit the blogs of the fabulous CMP authors and win prizes! Here are the details, with more to come:
Crescent Moon Press
Memorial Day Weekend Bash~!
Three Day Blog Tour
May 24th, 25th & 26th
Prizes at every stop
Grand Prize Nook or Kindle, Your Choice
Every stop along the way will have a posted quest
Sign up for the newsletter or blog
Email your quest answer to the author to enter for great...
May 15, 2011
Letting go
I'm a pack rat, I admit it. I have boxes of letters, school papers (really, some brilliant ones from college), and old toys (if only I hadn't opened and played with those Star Wars toys I could sell them and quit my day job), and don't get me started on the boxes of various drafts of my book. Some of these drafts are wildly different from the final version, not to mention embarrassingly bad. A couple years ago, when I thought the book was "finished," I purged a lot of the hardcopy comments...
April 19, 2011
My first post
This post launches the new blog and my journey as an official author! Last week I submitted the final edits for my first novel, Thief of Hope, which will be published by Crescent Moon Press next month. It has been a very intense two months or so of editing, but I'm really happy with the changes I've made. They really improve the writing and the story. Thief of Hope is a romantic fantasy chronicling the adventures of Sydney, a pickpocket and street urchin. This unusual heroine becomes a...
