Make-a-Fan Monday: Working Partners

 
Today I’m making you a fan of…Working Partners, Ltd.
What is Working Partners? Recently, the company seems to have blossomed into an umbrella for several different companies. But, I first learned of Working Partners as a children’s fiction book packager. You might be wondering what the heck a book packager is. Well, essentially, a publisher may [...]

Update and Here’s a Question for Ya

Okay, so today’s post (and by post I mean the one sentence I’m about to write here and slap up on the internet), is completely unrelated to the series of posts I’ve been doing. So, don’t try to draw any interesting paralells or find the missing link. K?
Quick update, though. I’ve officially started the agented [...]

Book Review: Ink Exchange

 
I read Wicked Lovely this past summer and loved it. I hadn’t been dying to read Ink Exchange, though. No particular reason except that there were other books on my “To Be Read” List calling my name. So I put off reading Melissa Marr’s second book. That is, until I started reading her blog.
Melissa has [...]

2009 Debutante Interview Series: Saundra Mitchell

After our one week hiatus, I can’t wait to resume our 2009 Debutante Interview Series. I mentioned Saundra last week following an article she sent to me about a new comic book imprint, but this is 10x better because she’s hear to talk about her own journey to publication! 
Saundra Mitchell has been a phone psychic, [...]

10 Things An Agent Might Not Wanna Hear

 An agent calls to talk to you about your project. Yay! But there might be another reason he wants to talk to you on the phone. Here’s 10 surefire things you can mention to make him regret ever dialing your number.
 
1. So, when will my movie be made?
2. You can guarantee me a $200,000 advance, right?
3. Alright, so [...]

The Perfect Storm

Ok, bear with my line of reasoning here. I was watching the news and following the whole Hurricane Gustav thing. (Very thankful it turned out to be less devastating than predicted.) Then, I was thinking, Hey, remember that movie/book The Perfect Storm. That was a good movie/book. And I don’t even care for Nicolas Cage because he looks like a [...]

Book Review: The Gargoyle

 
“Marianne Engel is a beautiful sculptress of gargoyles who appears in the burn unit one day and tells the narrator of this mesmerizing tale that they were lovers in medieval times, when she was a scribe and he was a mercenary. Is she simply mad? Or is she truly the angle of mercy who will [...]

Topical Tuesday: To self-publish or not to self-publish?

I’m blogging late because I’ve been packing. More on why in my status report.
Anyway, on to Topical Tuesday. Should an author ever self-publish?
It kills me to do it, but I’m gonna go ahead and waffle.
Because it depends. It really does. First and foremost, a self-published novel does not a published author make. We need to [...]

Writer of the Day: Chelle Cordero

Hi, all. Chelle Cordero, the author of BARTLETT’S RULE and FORGOTTEN has agreed to come on and speak to us about promoting your book and yourself as an author. Very important lessons for any new author regardless of whether you are at a major publishing house or a small, indie press like Chelle.
Plus, I think [...]

Decisions, Revisions

So in the world of revisions as I hear it, there are basically two schools of thought: Stephen King and Orson Scott Card.
Then, a spectrum in between.
Stephen King in his wonderful, wonderful book On Writing, tells us to write the draft, stick in a drawer for at least 6 weeks, then come back to it. Take your printout of [...]