Review In Questions: Killer Summer by Ridley Pearson

**I have a real treat if you tune in tomorrow. The NYT best-selling author of Killer Summer, Ridley Pearson, has given Fumbling with Fiction an essay entitled “Writing a Killer Series” for me to post. All you series writers will definitely want to check out his advice and words of wisdom on the subject.
Sheriff [...]

Friday Five

 
Holy cow a Friday Five on *gasp* Friday! Whoddathunkit?
 
1. On the writing front, still waiting on agent revision notes for the proposal. Hoping to get those soon, so I can work on revisions this week because…
2. I’m on Spring Break! Wooohooooo Spring Break ‘09, Girls Gone Wild, Woooohooo. Oh wait. This is law school spring [...]

2009 Debutante Author Interview Series: Carrie Ryan

 
In Mary’s world, there are simple truths.
The Sisterhood always knows best.
The Guardians will protect and serve.
The Unconsecrated will never relent.
And you must always mind the fence that surrounds the village….

 

I have been oh-so-excited about this interview. Carrie Ryan is the author of The Forest of Hands and Teeth, which will be published by Delacorte [...]

2009 Debutante Author Interview Series: C. Lee McKenzie

It’s not a heart-grabbing noise like when somebody jiggles the doorknob to see if it’s locked. It’s not a bitter smell like the electrical short we had last month, when all the breakers popped. No. It’s something in the air, something like a ghost making its way through the room. And it can’t be Monster, [...]

2009 Debutante Author Intervew Series: Deva Fagan

In Fortune’s Folly, a girl who survives by telling fake fortunes must
make one of them come true to save her father’s life–to succeed,
she’ll have to procure a wicked witch, recover a pair of enchanted
slippers, and, worst of all, find a princess to marry the prince she’s
falling in love with herself.

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Does that not just sound like [...]

2008 Wrap Up

I was checkin’ out Shelli’s blog the other day and really liked her review of her life in 2008. Since so much has happened in my writing (and personal) life this year, I thought it’d be nice to look back.
So here we go…
-Graduated a semester early to focus on writing
-Researched industry, tried to figure out what [...]

Muses Do the Darndest Things

Of course, the second I sit down to start studying for the night, the muse strikes. She’s been in hiding or playing hard to get or something. But that was fine because I wasn’t interested anyway. At least not ’til next week.
I guess that made Miss Muse mad because she decided to make herself known [...]

Whipped Into Shape

I’m feeling a bit out of shape.
Each word plops onto the page only after much huffing and puffing.
And I’d be lying if I told you my paragraphs weren’t a bit flabby.
And the adverbs? I need to shed those fast!
Yep, it’s sad, but true. I’ve fallen out of writing shape and I’m embarrassed.
In mid-November I wrapped up my [...]

2009 Debutante Author Interview Series: R.J. Anderson

Forget everything you think you know about faeries…
Creatures full of magic and whimsy?
Not in the Oakenwyld. Not anymore.
Deep inside the great Oak lies a dying faery realm, bursting with secrets. Long ago the faeries mysteriously lost their magic. Robbed of their powers, they have become selfish and dull-witted. Now their numbers are dwindling and their [...]

2009 Debuntante Author Interview Series: Cindy Pon

While this is the 2009 Debutante Interview Series, I’m pretty sure this week’s deb would get kicked out of the ball on account of her incessant bootay shakin’. Yes, it’s Cindy Pon (aka Xiaotien) and she’s here to chat with us about her journey from waging query warfare to her three book deal with Greenwillow. Her first [...]