Deborah Halverson

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Deborah at B&N YA Author Panel June 11 Santee, CA

June 8, 2016

Deborah at B&N YA Author Panel June 11 Santee, CA

Summer is starting out with a lot of fun writing-related activity for me, that’s for sure. First Revision Week on DearEditor.com last week, and now a panel this coming weekend at Santee Barnes & Nobel (Sat., June 11, 2pm). The panel is “Writing a Book Is Like Riding a Roller Coaster!” My fellow panelists—fabulous YA writers—and I […]

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Marie Force Talks Revision for the Revision Week Grand Finale

June 3, 2016

Marie Force Talks Revision for the Revision Week Grand Finale

Here we are, Revision Week’s grand finale. The stunning author who’ll share her revision process on this big day is Marie Force, the New York Times bestselling author of over fifty contemporary romances. Her books have sold millions of copies around the world. Marie is amazing in her work ethic as well as with her storytelling. […]

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Revision Week Interview with Celebrated Jane Yolen

June 2, 2016

Revision Week Interview with Celebrated Jane Yolen

Oh boy! Here we go with Day 4 of Revision Week… which means the Jane Yolen, celebrated author of over 300 picture books, novels, and poetry collections for young people. Yeah, that’s right: 300. She’s prolific, praised, and above all talented.  With Jane having so many projects in various stage of drafting, revising, reviewing, and approving, […]

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Loving Revision Week! Today, Chanel Cleeton

June 1, 2016

Loving Revision Week! Today, Chanel Cleeton

It’s Day 3 of DearEditor.com’s Revision Week already? I absolutely love hearing about other authors’ writing processes, so these interviews make me so happy. Today’s interview is withChanel Cleeton, popular author of thriller and contemporary romance series: “I ALWAYS edit once on my computer, once on a printed draft, and once on an e-reader because […]

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Interview with Salina Yoon, book giveaway, free partial edit giveaway

May 31, 2016

Interview with Salina Yoon, book giveaway, free partial edit giveaway

Revision Week continues over at my writer’s advice blog DearEditor.com with Salina Yoon, the tremendous author/illustrator of more than 160 books including Penguin and Pinecone and the other adorable Penguin books. Salina says, “I approach writing a story like solving a puzzle. Each piece is critical in telling the story.” In her interview, she shares her […]

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Interview with Newbery Honor Author Pam Munoz Ryan

May 30, 2016

Interview with Newbery Honor Author Pam Munoz Ryan

If you follow my DearEditor.com writing advice blog, you know each spring I host a special event called Revision Week, which showcases interviews with prolific, best-selling authors that give us a peek into their revision processes and tons of useful insights into how we can go about revising our own writing. It’s now time for DearEditor.com’s 4th annual Revision Week, featuring […]

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Summer Fun: Deborah at SCBWI Summer Conference

May 4, 2016

Summer Fun: Deborah at SCBWI Summer Conference

I’m so pleased to be joining the faculty of SCBWI’s 2016 Summer Conference in Los Angeles July 29-31 (there’s an optional craft intensive a on Aug 1). I love this conference and am honored to be a part of it this year. I’ll be presenting “An Up-to-the-Minute Market Report” on the main stage on Sunday, the 1-hour breakout […]

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The Fabulous Insights of Carter Higgins

April 18, 2016

The Fabulous Insights of Carter Higgins

It’s one thing to know you need to make changes to your story, it’s another to figure out how to go about implementing those changes. Trying to wrap your head around the logistics of doing a BIG revision can be downright overwhelming. Where do you even begin? I got a question about that at DearEditor.com, and I knew author […]

Filed Under: Adventures in Writing Tagged With: A Rambler Steals Home, Carter Higgins, DearEditor.com

3 Big Cheers for 3 Writers (and a wee one for me)

February 26, 2016

3 Big Cheers for 3 Writers (and a wee one for me)

I don’t always post my cheers when writers I’ve worked with as an editor reach their goals because I don’t want to look like I’m trying to take credit for their hard work and talent. As an editorial consultant I point out strengths and weaknesses, and I make suggestions about opportunities and guide when writers […]

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The Power of the Perfect Writing Space

February 7, 2016

The Power of the Perfect Writing Space

When I first saw feet sticking out from under the desk, I thought, “How cute!” Then I thought, “He writes his stories under there, and he’s very productive. Maybe I should take that spot when he goes to school tomorrow.” I was mostly joking. But that thought made me stop and mull the power of […]

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The Danger of Letting a Storyteller in Your Kitchen

October 27, 2015

The Danger of Letting a Storyteller in Your Kitchen

Today I was peeling large Pink Ladies for a Brown Sugar & Cinnamon Baked Apples snack for the boys, peeling away speedily, thinking about how one must be careful not to peel away one’s finger instead, then thinking about what one would do in that situation then how people would react to the blood then […]

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Fab Review for Writing Young Adult Fiction For Dummies!

August 26, 2015

Fab Review for Writing Young Adult Fiction For Dummies!

Author/blogger Lee Wind is well known for caring deeply about writers, so his recommendation of WRITING YOUNG ADULT FICTION FOR DUMMIES on the SCBWI blog makes me super proud: “Deborah Halverson (who I’m always so impressed with) has put together a really useful guide… Her book is packed with good stuff.”

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San Diego Book Award Winner!

August 10, 2015

San Diego Book Award Winner!

I love to celebrate milestones and good news by paying it forward. This week I’m celebrating WRITING NEW ADULT FICTION winning a San Diego Book Award by giving away a FREE FULL MANUSCRIPT EDIT away on my writer’s advice website DearEditor.com. If you’re a writer or know a writer who might want an edit, click […]

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Pulling Back the Curtain

May 25, 2015

Sometimes our assumptions don’t jive with reality. Today, my twelve-year-old neighbor stood next to me as I signed a copy of Writing New Adult Fiction to mail to the winning bidder in the Quest for Queen Auction. I explained what I was doing, why, and the purpose of the bookmark-that-doubles-as-a-business-card that I’d tucked into the […]

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Watch Where You Sit!

March 27, 2015

Watch Where You Sit!

One reason I buy bound books for my sons instead of e-books is because books laying around the house become books discovered by other brothers. Last night I threw EL DEAFO on the couch last night to see who would discover it this morning. Turns out the strategy works on grandmas, too.

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