Posted in Book Talk, CRAFT on October 4th, 2007 5 Comments »
My new novel for young adults, Cybele’s Secret, has been released this week here in Australia. I couldn’t resist the opportunity to share Kinuko Craft’s gorgeous cover painting with you. Unfortunately, the American edition doesn’t come out until September 2008, so anyone wanting a cute Knopf hardback to match their copy of Wildwood Dancing has […]
Posted in Interviews, Business on October 3rd, 2007 4 Comments »
Last week in Snippets, we linked to a new opportunity for unpublished novelists to get their work read and possibly published. In the tradition of Gather.com and eHarlequin, Slush Pile Reader aims to let readers determine the next great work of fiction. So naturally, we wanted to go to the horse’s mouth and get more details on the project.
Johanna Denize, on of […]
Posted in CRAFT on October 2nd, 2007 2 Comments »
Now that Karin Tabke’s First Lines contest has whetted your appetite for coming up with a finely crafted hook for your novel, I thought it’d be apropos to review a topic we’ve covered muchas around here (and here). Why? Because, in the inimitable words of Sol Stein, “If you want to be published, […]
Posted in Contest on October 1st, 2007 3 Comments »
Hot news from the NYTimes:
Joining the growing list of publishers that use public votes to decide what to publish, Penguin Group is teaming with Amazon.com and Hewlett Packard for the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. From today through Nov. 5, contestants from 20 countries can submit unpublished manuscripts of English-language novels to Amazon, which will assign […]
Posted in Contest on October 1st, 2007 No Comments »
If you missed WU’s Wednesday interview with Karin Tabke, you missed not only a fun Q&A but mention of a cool contest. Karin’s First Line’s contest was to begin today, but some unexpected writing duties have made that impossible for Karin. Instead, plan on the contest beginning on MONDAY, OCTOBER 15th at her blogsite. Here’s […]
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Upcoming interviews with: brain surgeon and novelist Allen Wyler on his medical thriller Deadly Errors; British fantasy author and master of characterization, Joe Abercrombie on his First Law trilogy; award-winning YA novelist and author of Writing and Selling the Young Adult Novel, KL Going; agent and author of A Dash of Style, Noah Lukeman; author of touch-of-magic novels Garden Spells and The Sugar Queen, Sarah Addison Allen; fellow blogger and author of the soon-to-be-released resource, Get Known Before the Book Deal, the original Writer Mama, Christina Katz; and the one, the only Diana Gabaldon -- yes, WU readers, you read that right -- bestselling author of historical genre-bending novels, including the one that started it all, Outlander.
