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Here at the Inkpot we are very excited about Leah Cypess’s gorgeous new book, MISTWOOD, which has been getting a lot of well-deserved attention recently (starred review from Kirkus!), and so I was really thrilled to sit down at a virtual kitchen table and chat for a while with Leah over a cup of virtual tea . . . .

I enjoyed MISTWOOD so much, Leah ( Read more... )

As part of our new Ask the Inkpot feature, we opened up floor to questions from readers. One of the first we got was about writing query letters. If you’re pursuing publication you are probably familiar with query letters: the single page in which you somehow have to convince a literary agent or editor to take an interest in your novel. It can be a ( Read more... )

There’s a lot of worry, angst, and expectation for readers and writers tied up in that one little word, “sequel.” If we love a story (as reader or writer!), it’s natural to want more of it. But what form should “more of the story” take? Some sequels take years to arrive - some come more promptly but take a toll on the poor author, who had years ( Read more... )

We Inkies do love us our settings!  Here's part two of where Inkpot authors, published and unpublished, have found real-world inspiration for the settings in their fantasy works.

Nandini Bajpal: When I was twelve I met the Dowager Queen of Bhutan and she gave me (OK, gave my Mum) a gold tipped Sheaffer pen. At the time my father, an officer in the ( Read more... )

Some fantastic news this week from the Inkpot roster! First up, this week we are thrilled, overjoyed, head-over-heels to announce that Inkie Anne Nesbet's middle grade fantasy THE CABINET OF EARTHS is going to be published by HarperCollins! Here's Anne's blurb:

All Maya really wants is for her mother to be well again. But when her baby brother ( Read more... )

I dug out my childhood copy a few weeks ago: a first edition, with those wonderful wistful/magical drawings by Nancy Ekholm Burkert and the crooked block letters of my name scrawled across the inside cover. It was one of the first Real Books I ever owned, and it did that incredible thing that first Real Books can do to a child - it woke up the ( Read more... )

What would an Inkpot be without a Book Club? So pull out your quill pens, refresh the reservoir of your inkwell, and dig out your favorite reading chair -- "and steam will start coming out of your mouth, and immediately after that, marvelous things will start happening to you, fabulous, unbelievable things -- and you will never be miserable again ( Read more... )