Writer Unboxed

They say war is hell. White shoes worn with black socks is sartorial hell. Red wine drunk with a fish entrée is culinary hell. But there is no hell for the writer like Revision Hell.
I currently reside on the seventh level, the ‘this book sucks’ level where plot points and dialogue I thought were so […]

Sorry for the late post this a.m., but I literally just finished reading a great book called Monkeewrench by P.J. Tracy. Here’s the high-concept blip: a bunch of murders take place, and it looks like the work of a serial killer. Turns out it is, and the killer is matching each murder scene to one […]

Kathleen and Therese are thrilled to be able to pick the brain of Alexandra Kirby, editor for Working Partners LTD, the UK-based publisher know in the industry as a “book packager.” Their success in the YA genre has been anything but ordinary. Working Partners has developed some of the hottest new YA series burning up […]

Through the magic of blogging, you get to see where Kath is right now, destroying a few skin cells on North Carolina’s Outer Banks. Linktopia is in Therese’s hands for a few weeks (brawhahahahaha!)…but she’s also already feeling somewhat lonely (sniffle).
Alrighty, on to the good stuff:
Melly blogs about the differences between Canadians and Americans after […]

Yesterday, Therese and I got in a heated discussion over the revelation that JK Rowling has killed off at least two of her characters in the eagerly-awaited Book Seven. Putting on our storyteller’s cap, we’ve made several guesses. Below is Part 2 of our analysis.
All artwork featured is by the talented Ayne Greensleeves and comes […]

Therese and I are about to reveal a shameful secret.
We are Harry Potter-aholics. Big ones.
I know, I know. But Faulkner and Proust ain’t got nuthin’ on Rowling, who has taken children’s literature to new (and lucrative!) heights. She’s the Beatles of genre fiction, which is to say she proves a writer can deliver a story […]

Kathleen goes to the beach, Therese goes to a soggy Washington, D.C. Where’s the justice? I guess I’m in the wrong city for that…sorry, couldn’t resist! (Our hotel is very cool though, with the glass-backed framed pics of Barbie and Ken on the wall, the plasma TV, the funky green mosquito netting around the bed, […]