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Therese and I are going to take the week off between Christmas and New Year’s to read, recharge our batteries, catch up on our writing projects, and spend time with our families. OK, we’ll probably hit a few after-Christmas sales, too.
On behalf of Vicky and Marsha, we wish all our readers a holiday full of […]

(Psst, if you missed the Harry Potter news, click HERE.)
Traditionally, Friday is Interview Day here at Writer Unboxed, but we’re taking a break today as we finish putting the polish on several interviews and prepare for the holiday. We also thought this might be a great time for a mini year-in-review!
Kath and I started […]

We’re all just dying to know the name of the final HP book, right? I know JK Rowling’s fans have been begging her for the title as a holiday gift. And guess what? She finally obliged. (Thank you, JK). The next title will be called…
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

There’s also some good info at […]

I don’t like Christmas. In fact, I make Scrooge look like Santa. I don’t put up decorations (I think I’m allergic to the aesthetic properties of tinsel) and only grudgingly display cards, counting the days until I can reasonably take them down and dust the shelves whereon they stand; however, I have been known to […]

1. & 2. Pocketful of Names, One Vacant Chair – Joe Coomer. How a writer like Coomer managed to slip under my radar for as long as he did is beyond me. A friend recently discovered him and passed along his name, and I’ve been devouring everything he’s written, from most to least recent, ever […]

With the holidays in full swing, I’m finding it hard to calm my mind enough to get some good writing done.  There’s always something nibbling at the fringes now, reminding me I have something to do that I need to get done RIGHT NOW—shop while my kid’s at school, mail a package before the postal deadline, stop […]

Sorry for the late post this a.m., but I was busy shopping…for you! 
For many of us, ’tis the season for gift giving and receiving. All families are different, but mine has a favorite phrase this time of year: “What’s on your wish list?” Usually by the time I’ve thought to actually construct a wish list, […]

If you missed part one of our interview with Barry Cunningham, do yourself a favor a click HERE to read it now. Barry is not only the publisher and Managing Director of the UK’s Scholastic imprint, The Chicken House, he is also the man who famously discovered JK Rowling and Harry Potter. He spoke with […]

I’m burnt out from holiday shopping, working on my current wip, and, oh yeah, my day job.  So I’m going to share something my brother sent me via e-mail today.  Let me preface this by revealing that my bro and I were mired in the Brady Bunch generation.  We came home from school, we got […]

’Tis the season in which we’re bombarded with ideas for how best to demonstrate to those nearest and dearest to us our feelings of love and benevolence. Television ads would have you believe that Christmas just isn’t Christmas without a 72-inch flat-panel hi-def TV, a five-carat diamond pendant, a Lexus with a big red bow. […]

It doesn’t seem right to be doing a movie analysis without the intrepid Therese tossing her trenchant observations into the fray, but I’ve just seen the latest offering in the ultimate boxed franchise movie, James Bond, and I wanted to share my thoughts while they’re still fresh.  Casino Royale could have been a royale dud.  Instead, the […]

I still remember the day, years ago now, when I sat with some critique partners and one of them said, “The little voices came to me last night. I was sitting there, eating dinner, when all of a sudden some chick inside my mind started talking about her problems.” I was fascinated and a little […]