Writer Unboxed

My new novel, The Secret of Everything, hits the shelves this week. At the heart of the book is a restaurant called The 100 Breakfasts Café (which I really wanted to be the title for a long stretch). One of my favorite review quotes so far is from PW, who said the book shows “a [...]

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Kath, Therese, and the rest of the WU gang are taking a brief break for the holidays. Watch for Barbara Samuel’s post to go live December 30th! Happy holidays, everyone! Photo courtesy Flickr’s zeevveez

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LOL! Via the always hilarious Inkygirl:

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It happens to every writer now and then — you know, when you’re convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt that your story is absolute crap and you have to toss every single word and start again, or come up with a different idea, or just bag it entirely. I hit that wall this past [...]

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Back in October, I blogged about sloppy firsts: how terrifying it is to begin that clumsy first draft of a book. And now I’m there: in the early stages of drafting a new novel. It’s exciting. It really is. I should have mentioned that in October’s post—having all the potential of a new story stretching [...]

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This is pretty cool. Seeing as Writer Unboxed readers are keen to learn more about the the book publicity space, we thought you might be interested in a homegrown, zero-budget, author-fueled project that WU contributor J.C. Hutchins recently coordinated. It was a cross-promotion that was so savory, it snagged the participation of several New York [...]

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Please welcome Jane Friedman as the newest contributor to Writer Unboxed. Jane is the publisher and editorial director of the Writer’s Digest brand community at F+W Media in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she oversees Writer’s Digest magazine, Writer’s Digest Books, and the Writer’s Market series. (Read her full bio HERE.) This is her first post. — [...]

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The keynote speaker at the Write on the Sound Writers Conference at which I did my workshop was a film writer named Brian McDonald. He had an interesting take on the shape (structure) of a story. Since storytelling in a novel and on the screen is fundamentally pretty much the same, I thought I’d share [...]

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I’m sure you’re feeling the same way I am this holiday season: wishing that somehow there was more than 24/7 in a week to get everything done that needs doing. It’s durn hard to fit day job, holiday shopping, your kid’s holiday play, office parties, sleeping and oh yeah, your writing career in 24 tiny hours. But [...]

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I promised you a post on building Facebook ads, and this is it. I know, I know, you can barely contain your excitement! So why Facebook ads? Facebook ads are something the marketing team at Shaye Areheart Books recommended I try, since I wanted to contribute to my book’s campaign. They were easy to set [...]

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This month, as we are getting close to Christmas, I’d like to offer something a little different: a Christmas fable for readers of Writer Unboxed. And the very best of season’s greetings to everyone! There was once a boy who was captured by robbers. Now these robbers were the most feared in the whole country. [...]

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Writer Unboxed has been named one of the top 101 websites for writers for three years running by Writer’s Digest. It’s nomination time again, and we’d be thrilled to collect another award! If WU is one of your fave sites, we hope you’ll put in a good word for us by sending your nomination to [...]

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