Welcome to my new blog, which now includes content from many of the blogs I’ve created over the years. You can now also access content via category from this one page instead of having to search for my individual blogs, which were scattered over various platforms and websites.
With Andrew Tolson‘s agent submitting his YA manuscript ,The Girl Who Saved Kafka, to prospective publishers, he wanted to entice editors with something extra, a taste of the novel before they had read the first page. He decided to launch a blog that was in the voice of the main character: . . .
I’ve been using Google+ pretty heavily for the past week. Here’s my Google+ Profile page, if you’d like to follow me; I’ve updated it with links to my directories of those on Google+ interested in kidlit/YA, librarians, digital publishing/ebooks, children’s book illustrators, comics/webcomics, board gaming, filk, and iPads. See the end . . .
Kate Fall has a great post about how to create a successful “unreliable narrator” in middle grade fiction on the MiG Writers Blog. An excerpt: The trick is to present both what is really going on and what the character is thinking, and to have some reason why the character sees the . . .
Julie Duffy is a writer and the host of StoryADay.org, a creative writing challenge held in May every year. — I’ve just finished up StoryADay May, in which a bunch of writers sat down every day and wrote, well, a story a day. It’s a real challenge and each year it teaches me something . . .
Thanks to Bruce Macintosh for pointing me to this article about squirrel-Dalek hybrids. 🙂
I’ve posted a cartoon caption challenge over on Writer Unboxed!
Ok, I gave up on the idea of staying offline in the mornings. Reason: Because of my Market Watch column for Writersmarket.com, I need to surf the Web for publishing industry info each morning. I tried to make notes of stuff that would be good tweet and blog post material . . .