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Prologue Problems
A Friday Free-for-All [in which our heroine obsesses about writerly things] I’ve been reading literary agent Mary Kole’s blog, kidlit.com. Right now she’s doing a series of critiques on story...
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Writer Quiz
Dreamer? Wisher? Hoper? Player? [A Friday Free-for-All Entry] 1. Do you have at least seven titles but no salable manuscript? 2. Have you spent over two hours finessing your writing space (on...
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First NiFtY Author Interview: Seven N. Blue
For my very first NiFtY (Not Famous…Yet!) Author Interview, I give you Seven N. Blue. I met Seven through the Sacramento Writer’s Group and we clicked immediately. Not only are we both highly...
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Black Magic Sanction by Kim Harrison
The first book of Kim Harrison’s I read was Every Which Way But Dead. And I was blown away. Like Kelley Armstrong, Kim Harrison was one of the first women in the horror genre to actually get my...
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First Sentences in YA Lit
Here are 30 first sentences. Do you know the books they go to? If you know what I’ve been reading lately you’ll have an advantage, but I threw a few old favorites in just to keep you guessing. Um,...
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Keeping Ahead of Trends in YA Lit
Weekend Writing Special You’ve finished the first draft of your young adult manuscript. It’s new! It’s got a great hook! Nobody has done anything like this before! It’s a...
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Not My Daughter, You Bitch! (Swearing in YA Lit)
So I’m jumping on this subject bandwagon pretty late. I spoke with literary agent Mary Kole about this issue at a conference in April, and apparently it was a popular topic, because she wrote a blog...
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Script-Side Friday
Short version: still revising Savage Autumn. I feel kinda like Mr. Mutant-Potato Head up there. Long version…. Either I talk about my writing too much, or I don’t have much of a life otherwise...
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NiFtY Author: Matt Coonfield
I have a very special NiFtY Author Interview for you today, featuring one of my favorite people in the world: my little brother. He hasn’t always been my favorite person. There was this time once when...
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NiFtY Author: Elizabeth Kolodziej
Gods, witches, werewolves, and…vampires! Timed just right for Halloween weekend, I give you a NiFtY Interview with Elizabeth Kolodziej, author of Vampyre Kisses. BH: What’s your one-paragraph pitch for...
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