I’d like to introduce you to my cover! A writer friend of mine declared that I had been visited by the cover-art fairy–the good one who spreads joy throughout the land–and I couldn’t agree more. Those vivid colors, the model’s beautiful pose, the cool glow around the text. Love. Everything. I’ve known about it for [...]

First, my happy news: The Last Will of Moira Leahy was involved in a four-way book auction in Germany, and sold to the highest bidder! Foreign sales can be important because the advance that foreign publishers pay to your US publisher goes against your US advance (unless you retained foreign rights, which we didn’t). Put [...]

Kath and Therese want to take a moment to share some of WU’s recent mail.
First, from Writer Mama, Christina Katz, who’ll be doing an interview with us in the near future: the Writer Mama Back-to-School Giveaway begins on Monday (that’s today). There are a HUGE number of writerly books in this contest. The giveaway list [...]

Kath and I are groggy from our re-entry into the everyday world, but we wanted you to know about a few links:
Writer’s Digest published a fascinating interview with Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants, HERE.
Interested in checking out the BackSpace Writers Conference, where you can learn from and mingle with editors, agents and published [...]

Last week we blogged about Emmy Cherry, an eleven-year-old girl tragically killed when a tornado ripped through her home in Arkansas. Emmy was a big fan of former WU contributor Victoria Holmes‘ massive YA bestselling series WARRIORS, which she conceptualized.
I’d been thinking about Emmy all week, as I have a daughter her age who [...]

Sweet salmon mousse on a cucumber, it’s been a long time since I’ve done one of these.  I could make all kinds of excuses about it, but I should come out and confess: I’ve been hooked on reality elimination shows lately.  Thank gawd Top Chef is over.  Now I can stop trying to whip up [...]

Johnny Depp will play Barnabas Collins in the new Dark Shadows flick? And is Peter Jackson really in talks with New Line about directing The Hobbit? Fingers crossed. Read more at the new and promising blog, Fantasy SF, HERE.

You might live in lovely North Carolina or California, or reside in some picturesque beach house in Hawaii or New Zealand, but we WU mamas (Kath and Therese) live in dreary upstate New York. And it’s been cold here. And rainy. And snowy. And cold. Did we mention cold? Where in this world, exactly, does [...]

Surfing the best of the writers’ blogs so you don’t have to.
It sounds like a plot lifted from a John LeCarre novel, but the real-life poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko, ex-FSB (morphed out of the old KGB) agent and vocal critic of the Putin administration, is a real-life thriller waiting to be solved by an intrepid [...]

Surfing the best of the writers’ blogs so you don’t have to.
I’ve rounded 6,000 words this first week of NaNo, which is pretty good considering I couldn’t work on my WIP this weekend.  So I’m jiggifying in celebration.  Here’s Emo giving his best impression of me after two hours of hard work:
Blogs are quiet this week due to NaNo-ing [...]

Surfing the best of the writers’ blogs so you don’t have to.
Well, let’s all do the happy dance, for this comes as welcome news (NYT, free reg. required).  After two years of hearing about publishers bemoaning their plummeting sales, the forecast for this fall is improving due to a crop of reliable big name authors and a [...]

Surfing the best of the writers’ blogs so you don’t have to. 
Forget nuclear fallout in North Vietnam.  The bomb dropped last night when Jeffrey won this season’s Project Runway.  The judges went gaga over his zippered confection which I thought looked like the awning of a Pizza Hut, but what do I know.  I’m a Laura fan, which means I [...]