Writer Unboxed

Look. Ain’t it purty? This is the cover of my forthcoming CONFESSIONS OF A FIRST DAUGHTER, which releases September 1. My editor at Working Partners LTD sent it over a few months back, but we’d only gotten permission from HarperTeen to release the image last week. I’m thrilled. The image is sophisticated yet fun, just [...]

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Goodies from the mailbox include a Pitch Party invite for St. Pat’s Day; an opportunity to win a scholarship to a Donald Maass “Weeklong Intensive” seminar; an invite a check out a new, interactive grammar site; and a link to 100 creative writing blog sites. In the first envelope…. Chris Elden from Book Roast wrote: [...]

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Excellent news from valued contributor Sophie Masson: Demigods and Monsters, the essay collection on Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson series for children, in which I have an essay called Language of the Heart, is now out in a general trade edition with Ben Bella Books. Amongst other things, the essay is about how the childhood reading of [...]

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We’ve recently received a couple of interesting tidbits we’d like to alert WU readers to. Please note that we’re not necessarily promoting the product/contest/opportunity, we’re just passing the information on in the hopes that it might prove useful or entertaining. Stacy Schlicht wrote: Hi, I wanted to let you know about Bookrix.com, a first-of-its-kind social [...]

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WU reader Julia Weston asked this question in response to Therese’s post on Facebook and building an author website: I’m an unpublished fiction writer and, after reading all the comments, I have to confess that I’m a bit intimidated by all this. Why? Because I’m unpublished. I have a finished manuscript and I’m preparing to search [...]

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Some questions for me this week. Therese, Do you think your nonfiction credits have helped or hindered you at all? Does your nonfiction writing experience tie in with fiction? Are you going to continue writing nonfiction now that the fiction is going to be published? Cathy J Thanks for the questions, Cathy J! I worked [...]

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Recently, we received this e-mail from Jamie Manning: I have recently started a book and have already become overwhelmed with post-its, scratch paper, notebooks and computer files. I was wondering which, if any, writing program is good to help keep my book organized and somewhat smooth out the writing process? Jamie, I feel your pain. [...]

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As Kath mentioned last week, we’re starting a new category here at WU called “From the Mailbox.” We had a question come through the mail this past week that I thought was worth sharing. I’ve written a children’s book which has had some positive response from agents, but no one who is willing to sell [...]

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Every so often, Therese and I get interesting alerts in our WU e-mail account that we should pass on to WU readers, so many that I thought I should start a feature called “From the Mailbox.” The moniker isn’t going to get chisled on the Parthenon anytime soon, but it gets the job done. Kelly Sonora [...]

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