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Mid-month check-in

I’ve written or edited everyday but Sundays this month so far.


And that’s great, but this is one of those weeks where I’ve been a little unfocused.


Don’t get me wrong, I’m doing really well on my benchmarks to meet this month’s goal word count, and I’m on-deadline with everything I’ve set up for myself… or at least not technically behind (yay for giving myself leeway!)


But I’ve worked on

Reading slump

It happens every once in a while: I go strong with reading,
I get some awesome books into my brain, and then… I just can’t be bothered.


My TBR pile is teetering, threatening to collapse on top of
me and bludgeon me to death (there are some seriously thick hard covers in
there).


I am behind on my reading goals.


 






But you know what….


That’s okay.


There are things in life that

Out Today: The Bed Moved, Lazaretto

 



The Bed Moved by
Rebecca Schiff
The audacious, savagely funny debut of a writer of
razor-sharp wit and surprising tenderness: a collection of stories that gives
us a fresh take on adolescence, death, sex; on being Jewish-ish; and on finding
one’s way as a young woman in the world.


 A New Yorker,
trying not to be jaded, accompanies a cash-strapped pot grower to a “clothing
optional

Guest Post: Christine Rains - Top 5 Favorite Urban Fantasy Worlds

Today I'm over at Christine's blog talking about my Top 5 Fairytale Retellings. Stop by and check it out after you read about her favorites.

Take it away, Christine!





MY TOP 5 FAVORITE URBAN FANTASY WORLDS


By Christine Rains


 

Thanks so much to Amy for having me on her blog today. I'm excited to talk about the worlds in one of my favorite genres: urban fantasy.

There are so many

SMSO: Sarah Negovetitch

Sarah Negovetitch


On Twitter: @SarahNego


Check out her website



 


Who they Are:


Agent
at Corvisiero Literary Agency and author of the Acceptance
series.



Why you should follow
them if you’re not already:


Authors:
She does a weekly “why you’re not selling” column on Wednesday, as well as
Agency Lessons.



Readers:
Her books are a blend of Matched and Minority Report.

Check in

The first real week of April is over and I am exhausted.


Long nights putting in higher word counts means that I’ve
met my first deadline for a draft, but it’s not quite over yet. I’ve got a
break neck pace for revisions that started yesterday so I can hand a book off
for edits.

Anyone who thinks writing is a leisurely pursuit is not taking the same route I
am.




Sadly, I don’t know that

IWSG: Am I Writing In The Wrong Genre?

 

I’ve been self-publishing since July of 2013 and though I’ve
always called myself a speculative fiction author, up until this year, I’ve
only published Science Fiction novels and short stories.


In February, that changed.


I put out the first in a series of Clockwork Fairytale
novellas. Something interesting happened.


They began to sell with a level of success that I hadn’t
seen in

Out Today: Don't Get Caught, My Kind of Crazy, Tell Me Three Things, etc

 



Don’t Get Caught
by Kurt Dinan
10:00 tonight at
the water tower. Tell no one. -Chaos Club
When Max receives a mysterious invite from the untraceable,
epic prank-pulling Chaos Club, he has to ask: why him? After all, he's Mr. 2.5
GPA, Mr. No Social Life. He's Just Max. And his favorite heist movies have
taught him this situation calls for Rule #4: Be suspicious. But it's also his
one shot

Creating A Map Of Your World: Part 2

This is a four part series, so hop back and check last week’s
if you haven’t already and come back for parts three and four!
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4




Prep your proportions
If your map is crazy big (like mine was) you may need to
deal with that. In my case, I took a picture of the whole map and then I popped
it on my computer, dropped it into a word document (because I needed

Week's Links 4/3/16

 

Holy
crap, our planet is beautiful (Via NASA)




Check out these 10
Sci-Fi movies coming out in 2016 (Cultbox thinks they’re pretty original)




Roni Loren talks about the
importance of having hobbies as a writer.




Know
Thy Customer - How to Write What You Love and Still Sell (Via Rachael
Aaron)




The 2016
YA Scavenger Hunt is on! Check out Bet Revis’ post on it and get hunting.