Writer Unboxed

Surfing the best of the writers’ blogs so you don’t have to.
I finished wrestling with the second draft of my current WIP, and it’s a miracle I still have hair. Thank God for blog surfing. It takes my mind off my throbbing follicles.
It sounds like the opening of a good thriller, but the murder of […]

Surfing the best of the writers’ blogs so you don’t have to.
Blogger is being good, fingers crossed. Which means folks have been able to update their blogs. There should be juicy tidbits this week.
Crime Fiction Dossier has a list of recommended reviewers for mystery/crime fiction authors to send their ARCs . . . . Paperback […]

Isn’t this a pretty picture?
It’s the one Blogger didn’t want to let me upload on Tuesday. Maybe it’s because it was 666 day and Blogger is one of Satan’s minions. Therese and I like graphics. We like them loads. So it’s really . . . what’s the word I’m looking for . . . SUCKY […]

Surfing the best of the writers’ blogs so you don’t have to.
Piggybacking on Therese’s post below about interviewing your characters, this week we’ll be concentrating on links that will help your creativity go into overdrive for the long hot summer ahead.
The website Vision: A resource for writers has updated for May/June and has a ton […]

Surfing the best of the writers’ blogs so you don’t have to.
Book Expo America is over and we can all get back to our lives. Some of the gossip, tips and trends in publishing can be viewed here. The rumor, sadly, is true. Publishers across the board report that less books will be published in […]

Surfing the best of the writers’ blogs so you don’t have to.
This is for the rash of bloggers this week who are sick, out-of-town, enmeshed in graduation / mother’s day / BEA / pre-summer funks. Hope it cheers you up. My apologies if it annoys you. I don’t read Japanese either, so I hope […]

Surfing the best of the writers’ blogs so you don’t have to.
O happy day. Just when you couldn’t feel lower about your work, Therese found a blog to rival Miss Snark’s in terms of busting writers upside the head with reality checks. Evil Editor IS entertainingly evil, and also, gulp, perceptive.
Need to add a little […]

Surfing the best of the writers’ blogs so you don’t have to.
It’s difficult to decide whether to jeer or wince. Last week,the writer’s blogosphere was taken up with the antics of 19-year-old prodigy Kaavya Viswanathan and allegations of plagiarism for her ‘tween-lit novel that garnered a breathtaking advance. Today the NYT’s reveals that Viswanathan’s short […]

Surfing the best of the writers blogs so you don’t have to.
Wow, what a week. Our Erin Hunter interview is bringing us massive traffic. Part Two of this interview goes live tomorrow. If you write children’s or YA literature, you won’t want to miss it.
The other thing that blew my mind was Tor editor Anna […]

Surfing the best of the writers’ blogs so you don’t have to, while coming off the choco-bunny buzz.
The hilarious rambles of SFF author Hal Duncan currently has us rolling. We’re going to interview Hal soon about his new release VELLUM, which is garnering great reviews. In the meantime, check out his latest.
Victoria gives us another […]

Surfing the best of the writers’ blogs so you don’t have to, holiday edition.
It’s been a fairly slow week heading into the holiday, but the big news is that Dan Brown prevailed in his plagiarism lawsuit. Henry Baignent and Richard Leigh, authors of Holy Blood, Holy Grail, will have to use their royalty money to […]

Surfing the best of the writer’s blogs so you don’t have to.
In our quest to find good blogs on writing, we stumbled across prolific SF/F writer Crawford Kilian’s blog Writing Fiction. We’re also taken with another newish blog, Writing from the Trenches. They’re both good, check them out.
Over at Writer Beware, Victoria continues her series […]