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Things That Are Awesome
I’ve raved about this one already, but I recently read an ARC of REBOOT by Amy Tintera and it’s so good y’all. You need to pre-order this one or at the very least add to to your Goodreads to-read...
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Skeletons are claustrophic – if you shut them up in a closet they’re going to get out. This could be just me but I don’t really love this hook. It’s vague and tells nothing about the story to come....
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SERIOUSLY, WHAT HAPPENS ON A RETREAT?
If you read my blog even occasionally, you’ve probably noticed I’ve been shamefully neglecting it as of late. I’m sorry, but actually I’m not here to say I’ll be better… Because on Sunday I go to...
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That time I went on a writing retreat
So. Last week I went to my first writing retreat outside of Austin, Texas. Twenty-one authors gathered in one gorgeous house by a river, across from a steel plant and down the street from a roadhouse...
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Original Query Letter Dear Agent, (do not know specific one yet- Sorry!) Rosemary Bell, a grieving young widow, lost her husband to cancer and gives up her prestigious life as an artist. She moves...
View ArticleGiveaway! ARC of Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo
So. I happen to have an ARC of Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo, book 2 in the New York Times Bestselling Grisha Trilogy. Want it? Of course you do. Now I really wanted to use a fancy schmancy...
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The lucky winner of the advanced copy of Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo is……………… Chelsie Lichty! Chelsie, I’ll be contacting you via email to get your mailing address. Congrats, and happy...
View ArticleWhen someone steals your web content . . .
Today’s post is an especially personal one, and something that has been on my mind a lot lately. I think everyone has a good idea what plagiarism is, and I think it’s fair to say that most people...
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Orignal Query Letter I am submitting my query for my young adult novel THE COMPOUND for your consideration. Complete at 80,000 words THE COMPOUND is a thriller with science fiction elements and could...
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A little bit of regurgitated query letter advice
I love doing query letter critiques, but lately I’ve noticed that I often give out the same bit of advice, which leads me to believe that maybe a whole blog post dedicated to this bit of advice is in...
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Books That Changed My Life
I’ve read approximately a zillion books in my life, many of which I called 5-star books. I enjoyed them immensely at the time, but a week or month later I forgot all about them or could only vaguely...
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OneFour KidLit has a new look!
Remember 4 months ago when I announced that myself and a few other authors were starting a group for 2014 debut YA and MG authors? Well today OneFour KidLit is a thriving community with over 110...
View ArticleThe tropes and cliches I love and . . . don’t love as much
I know tropes are supposed to be a bad thing and yada yada yada, but there are certain plot devices that I love so much they don’t feel overused to me no matter how often I see them pop up in...
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ORIGINAL QUERY LETTER Title: The New Eden Chronicles Dear Agent X: Four hundred years after environmental collapse, there’s no place on Earth as beautiful as New Eden, where The Council of Holy...
View Article#7-The Art of Breaking (YA Paranormal Romance)
When rule-breaker Luca Grable drowns at seven years old, she doesn’t go to heaven. Instead she becomes an imaginary friend. But when her best-friend-from-life Katie Tayloe is unable to get over her...
View Article#8-Waking Mr. Henry (YA Contemporary)
Seventeen-year-old Emily Carlisle isn’t crazy. She’s just a normal teenager. A normal teenager who has just kidnapped an eighty-two year old man from an active home for seniors, and is now driving him...
View Article#9-Before and After (YA Romance)
Cassidy Jordan knows she’ll die a few weeks after her eighteenth birthday, and she can’t wait. This is her second time here, and she knows what’s waiting for her in the life-after (the place most...
View Article#10-Alive (YA Sci-Fi)
Sixteen-year-old Alex Martin lives in a perpetual state of almost-dead. Frequent electromagnetic therapy from her scientist uncle is the only thing keeping her alive—until it stops working. Alex...
View Article#11-Asher Locke and the Knights of Arcadia (MG Fantasy)
Thirteen-year-old Asher would do anything to see his father just one more time, but he knows that won’t happen. His dad died three years ago and it’s been nothing but memories ever since. But when a...
View Article#12-The Evil Stepmother Club (YA contemporary)
Keely just wants senior year to go according to the Plan but when her stepmom spends her college savings, she’s forced to get a job taking care of a beastly old woman. Enter Bryce, an unlikely suitor...
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