I’m thrilled to bring editor extraordinaire Robin Cruise to DearEditor.com today as my Guest Editor. Robin gave me my first job in publishing and her creativity, industry wisdom, and business acumen have inspired me ever since. She’s spent her career behind the scenes as managing editor, deputy publisher, and then publisher, with both trade publishers […]
Foreign Rights Expert Taryn Fagerness Talks Location, Location, Location!
A lot of writers wonder if U.S. readers will go for a novel set in an international location. A DearEditor.com reader asked me about that very issue. So I brought in brilliant foreign rights expert Taryn Fagerness to answer it on DearEditor.com today. Taryn represents foreign rights on behalf of North American literary agents. Before […]
My 3 New Books Have Launched!
My three books for Rubicon’s Remix struggling readers series have launched! Brave New World: Cyber World, Brave New World: Meltdown, and Brave New World: Robotic World. I loved having the chance to write for a new audience. REMIX is a series of high interest/low vocabulary non-fiction readers geared toward students in grades 7 to 8 who […]
Win a Free Copy of Writing Young Adult Fiction For Dummies
“Revision can be daunting. . . . Why not give your brain a break by breaking your task into focused chunks? With this approach, you’d pick a writing element, say plot, and ignore everything but that. Working Big Picture chunks to small detail chunks rather than page by page, you’d focus not on revising the […]
Coverage of My SCBWI conference Market Trends Keynote
This year I had the honor of compiling the “2012 SCBWI Market Survey: Publishers of Books For Young Readers” report for the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. I followed up with a keynote speech at the recent SCBWI Summer Conference about what I learned from her survey – giving attendees the current market […]
Putting the Marketplace Under a Microscope
I just had the honor of presenting the keynote speech “An Up to the Minute Survey of Market Needs and Trends” to the 1,200 children’s books writers at the amazing Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators International Conference today. That’s me in the photo there, on one of the two big screens behind the […]
A Virtual Visit to Stanford
Thanks to the Internet, I got to talk books and writing with a class of Stanford writing students today during an online chat session. The class uses my Writing Young Adult Fiction For Dummies as their text. I’m truly honored that schools continue to adopt my book for their classes. A big wave and shout-out […]
Passion, Publishing, and People
“The book publishing industry is populated by intelligent, hard-working people, many of whom are delighted to have the opportunity to turn their passion – the printed word – into a paying job.” — Digital Book World I just came across Digital Book World’s Feb 7, 2012, blog post “Best Publishing Companies to Work For.” I […]
Summer Is Shaping Up
As the San Diego weather vacillates between hot-enough-for-the-beach and dark-and-stormy, I’m putting my summer together. Workwise, it’ll be a fun one, with the SCBWI 2012 Summer Conference in L.A. Aug 3-6. I’ll present a breakout session on writing dialogue, an intensive on revising your MG/YA novel, an intensive on creating youthful narrative sensibility, and the […]
THIS is how you do it!
Want to get people talking books and celebrating reading? Take a hit song, parody it brilliantly, then watch it become a viral video sensation. Listen carefully, because there are so many great lines. Well done, ladies!
Revision Week
All week long I’ve been hosting an event called Revision Week on my writers’ advice site DearEditor.com. It’s been so fantastic! Revision Week brings together eight prolific, bestselling, award-winning authors for a week of revision tips, insights, and stories from the trenches. Each day I post a new interview in the hopes that the writers […]
So Much News!
January was a whirlwind of new projects and writing adventures. This is just some of it: New Project: a Picture Book about Santa I’ve been signed to write a picture book about the mighty man in red, to be published Christmas 2012. I’ll post more details when they’re available. Fun! New Project: 3 Books for […]
Thank You
2011 was a wonderful year for me professionally and personally. My husband and I celebrated our 16th wedding anniversary, our three now-7-year-olds went into first grade and their reading (reading!) skills skyrocketed, and my book Writing Young Adult Fiction For Dummies was published, with two other book contracts coming my way in the last days […]
What I’m Most Thankful For
I woke up this morning to a six-year-old boy snuggling in under the comforter with me. “I like the sound of the little birdies in the morning, Mommy. They remind me of you.” Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
Busy-ness
Taking care of the business of being in business is a full-time business in itself. My husband last night: “What you need is an assistant.” Hear that, Santa? But this post isn’t about summoning the magic of the man in red. It’s a public proclamation of my thankfulness for having a lot of business to […]
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