Dayna, a Canadian book blogger over at A TAPESTRY OF WORDS graciously invited me to do a guest post for PSYCHTEMBER, a month-long blog even that focuses on mental health issues in YA novels. Dayna herself has a Bachelor's degree in psychology. This event includes not only book reviews, but also guest posts and interviews with various YA authors ( Read more... )

Awesome writing buddy Laura is having AN UNQUIET GIVEAWAY on her blog, LAURA'S REVIEW BOOKSHELF. She was kind enough to allow to me write a guest a post for her: Why I Write YA. Check it out and enter to win!

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A great review for THE UNQUIET by TEEN LIBRARIAN TOOLBOX which pretty much nails the storyline:

"...A very important part, of course, of The Unquiet is Rinn's mental health issues. In this particular instance, Rinn is being medicated for being bipolar. Something happened on the West Coast because of her bipolar issues, and that is one play on the ( Read more... )

I'm so happy to have GOOD NEWS to share!

From Publishers Marketplace:

SAY THE WORD author Jeannine Garsee's UNEARTHLY POSSESSIONS, about a bipolar teen haunted by ghosts both real and imagined, to Caroline Abbey at Bloomsbury, for publication in Winter 2012, by Tina Wexler at ICM (NA).

Yay, yay, yay!

2012 seems like a long time away, but I know it' ( Read more... )

I am sooooo confused!

I'm >10k words into RB2. I'm using 4 POVs--2 in first person/present (Rinn and Annabeth), 2 in third person/present (R and C)

So I'm hammering away madly last night, and only when I got to the end of the C's first scene did I realize I wrote it entirely in first person. I mean, I never gave it a thought. R's earlier scene was ( Read more... )

newport2newport dedicated her first post of the month to Grapemo! Everyone, please check out her Creative Journaling entry: a beautiful collage! Thank you, Melodye.

Quote of the day: "Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."--E.L. DoctorowKnowing I had to work today, ( Read more... )

1. Thank you, newport2newport for the review & contest for Say the Word. *smooch ( Read more... )

As in FINISHED.
*clunk*

80 pages left to line edit and then back to the computer. I can't wait to see how many words I chopped out.

8,000 would be nice, rounding this monster down to an even 100k.

Somehow I doubt it.

1. Just survived my 5-day stretch at work. I beleive I'll rant about this in a later post.

2. saraclaradara mentioned me on her Magical Mystery Tour!

3. See Eli staked out in backyard. See nosy little Yorkie run in our yard, yap-yap-yapping, like: "Ha, ha, you're tied up and I'm not, la-la-la!" See Eli do his monster sized WOOF! WOOF! WOOF! and catapult ( Read more... )