Way back in the Dark Ages before social media gave us Facebook, Twitter, and the ability to blog, writers would celebrate their book publications with big signings or launch parties involving food and libations. We can still do that—and often do—but thanks to the current state of social media we can party in a bigger […]
Happy Pub Day!
My crazy/busy/fun summer hit’s its zenith today: Writing New Adult Fiction officially releases today! I’m always urging writers to celebrate their milestones, and now I’m taking my own advice. Tomorrow, a night out—probably involving root beer floats—with my four fellas. For everyone else, a week of “Free Partial Edit” giveaways and a grand finale “Free […]
It’s a book!
I came home from the SCBWI summer conference to find advance copies of my new book, Writing New Adult Fiction. It’s a book! Huzzah! It’s a couple of weeks yet till the official pub date of August 21, but some people have already contacted me to say they’ve pre-ordered it. Exciting! Now that the conference […]
Busy Summer
The next few months offer several opportunities to hone your writing with me, should you be so inclined. There are a couple still in the works; I’ll post those details when they’re finalized. Hope to see you! Aug 1-4, Los Angeles – SCBWI 43rd Annual Summer Conference “Market Report” Keynote 1-hr breakout “New Adult Fiction […]
Little Girls Dreaming Big
Anyone who knows me will tell you I’m a nice person, always have been. But as a girl growing up in the 1970s, the insides of this nice girl churned with anger. I was very conscious of the limitations society put on me as a girl, as I was also conscious of the struggle for […]
Review Week 2014 – Great stories, great advice
Every spring on my writer’s advice website DearEditor.com, I host prolific authors for a week of revision tips, insights, and stories from the trenches. I call it Revision Week, and it’s truly a labor of love. Last week was the third annual installment. You can read those interviews (as well as past years’) here. There […]
A New Interview!
“Saying NA fiction is just YA with sex is akin to saying YA fiction is just stories of high school romance.” I get talk New Adult fiction as well as Young Adult and Middle Grade fiction this week in an interview with Lee Wind. As SCBWI’s blogger extraordinaire, Lee is posting a series of interviews […]
A Good Kind of Busy
Launching a book can take as much time and effort as writing it. This can easily frustrate or overwhelm a writer. I understand that reaction, but because of my long time in this business, I’ve come to view that work as a gift. You see, when I got my first job in children’s book publishing […]
Postcards Get Thumbs Up!
My postcards for WRITING THE NEW ADULT NOVEL just arrived. Yet again, Printplace.com producing quality printing for me. And since a Writer’s Digest Book designer created the image, the whole thing just looks super swell. People, if you need printed materials, I highly recommend Printplace. Eight years after printing my first bookmarks through that company, […]
Deborah at Barnes & Noble Mira Mesa Friday, Nov 22
As part of Barnes & Noble’s Discovery Friday event this Friday, November 22, at 6pm I’ll be part of a lively panel about books for young people with Shannon Messenger, author of the middle grade series Keeper of the Lost Cities and the teen trilogy Let the Sky Fall, and Debra Driza, author of the […]
Robin Cruise Sets Us Straight: “onto” versus “on to”
If you get mixed up about when to use “onto” and “on to”, you’re not alone. I received a question about this at DearEditor.com and asked Robin Cruise, freelance editor at Red Pencil Consulting, to field it because she’s so good at explaining grammar stuff in accessible ways. Here’s the question: Dear Editor… Which is […]
Eddie Gamarra as Guest Editor, Advising How to Find Agents for Scripts or Book-to-Film Rights
So often these days, books and movies get talked about in the same breath. It’s no surprise, then, that I get questions from screenwriters as well as book writers at DearEditor.com. I received a question about finding an agent for a script this week, and I was fortunate to be able to call on Eddie […]
Deborah’s Interview Delves Into How Writers Can Succeed in Publishing
N.W. Harris, author of Joshua’s Tree (which currently tops the Goodreads 2013 Summer Reading list), interviewed me this week for his blog. Some things we chatted about include writing fiction versus nonfiction, my path to publication and editorial career, and three things I think new writers must do to compete in the current, highly competitive […]
A New Look, and a New Article
I’m pleased to debut a new look for my blog posts when they show up in subscribers’ inboxes. If you received this post via email, it should be spiffy and easy on the eye. If it’s not, then I did something wrong. Today is the first email with the new program. But to avoid turning […]
Me and My Two Gigantic Faces
It was like that moment when the Wizard of Oz’s gigantic green face appears in front of Dorothy. Only it was my gigantic face. And there were two of them, on either side of me. And in front of me wasn’t quaking Dorothy, but 1200 children’s book writers and illustrators poised to hear what I […]
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