Author Milestone - First Time Seeing Book in Bookstore


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Author Milestone: First Speech!

Okay, it was only five minutes long, but I don't usually ... or, well, ever do public speaking in my normal life, so I was a little nervous.

But the audience was BOOKSELLERS, so of course they were kind and wonderful. They laughed in all the right places, and said SUCH NICE THINGS when I got to talk to them. I am ( Read more... )

Before we go any further, please allow me give a shout-out to my agent-mate fabulousfrock! I’ve followed Jackie’s journey to publication on LiveJournal, and I could not be happier that her book will finally come to stay on my shelf as a hardcover in December. I’m impatient, however, and I want to read her ARC now, so I’m spreading the MAGIC UNDER GLASS love:


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This past weekend, almost a thousand people who regularly choose to spend a great deal of time alone gathered in a huge conference room in Los Angeles and created COMMUNITY.

It was awesome.

We writers and illustrators are too much in our heads. We desperately need to gather in groups sometimes to cheer and console, prop up a shaky buddy or talk a ( Read more... )

Hi all!

My critique partner, Melissa Higgins, posted an interview with me on her blog about agents - how to hunt one down in the wild, tranquilize it, and carry it home strapped to the roof of your car. A future post will discuss how to crate train them and use food as rewards.


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Project Novel - The Summer Season

Project Runway will finally be back on August 20th - I can’t wait! This time it’s airing on Lifetime, so don’t miss it ( Read more... )

The brilliant Ursula K. LeGuin (a Portland author - yay!) posted a response to an article about three rules of writing which are made to be broken (an article she read “cheering and arguing all the way”), originally written by John Rechy. (Thanks to Laura Manivong, who tweeted about the post ( Read more... )

It’s me again.

(It seems like every time I think I'll be absent from LJ, I start posting even more. ?!)

I’m still working on playlists, and I have a new question:

Which songs blew you away the first time you heard them?

There are lots of songs I love … but that I didn’t love immediately.But some songs win me over instantly, for various reasons ( Read more... )

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The middle of any book is hard, right ( Read more... )