Y’all gave me a lot of great movie, book, and TV suggestions. Many I was already familiar with but was reminded of; a few I’d never heard of but want to check them out now. Thank you! Now, what you’re actually here for…A WINNER! Random.org decided the winner for a full manuscript proofread/critique is : [...]
1. Is there anything more tired-making than a poor sick baby? Baby Caveman had his first official cold two weeks ago. We finally recovered from that and everything was great. Then two nights ago he was having a real rough time. Around three in the morning he felt hot so I took his temperature – [...]
You guys, I am so excited about this. Like, really, really super excited. Seriously. I don’t think you are understanding the level of excitement. Ahem. Moving on. About two weeks ago, the wonderful Dawn Rae Miller (whom I was introduced to through her rockin’ awesome group blog, The YA Curator) put out a call for [...]
I love Halloween. Love, love, love. Maybe not as much as Carrie Harris, but I still love it. And because I love it, I am giving away a special Halloween treat! I am giving away one FULL manuscript proofread. You can win it for yourself, win it to give to someone else who will love you, [...]
NaNoWriMo countdown is at one week! Do you have your plan of action in place? Your outline started? Good. This week I’m going to talk about something that will kill your plan of writing a novel in a month before you even get started. That’s right, I’m talking about that shiny thing that’s distracting you [...]
A while back, I tweeted this: People started asking for the recipe, so I promised I’d put it up on my blog. As you can see, that was on October 9th. Oops. I don’t have much time, so instead of typing the recipe all out, I’m going to give you a little direction and a [...]
Hero Written by: Perry Moore Paperback: 432 pages Publisher: Hyperion August 2007 (PB reprint May 2009) Genre: Young Adult How I Got the Book: Bought The last thing in the world Thom Creed wants is to add to his father’s pain, so he keeps secrets. Like that he has special powers. And that he’s been [...]
This morning, I had a long-overdue email conversation with a bloggy friend. We talked about life and good times and writing and publishing. It really got me thinking…and then this post was born: On Chasing the Dream You start with a little inkling of a dream. I want to write a book, you tell yourself. [...]
Rumor has it this list originated in Sweden and is the 100 most popular YA Books of 2011. The list is obviously subjective, but the idea is still fun…so, since I am super busy plotting my NaNoNovel, and need to focus on that, not on what to blog about, I am playing along by noting [...]
