Writer Unboxed

My first baby is two months away from needing a name, but I’ve owned baby name books for more than a decade. It’s a writer thing. In the first short stories I wrote, way back in elementary school, I think I mainly named my characters for people I knew. Erica. Ben. Mike. Dawn. (My class [...]

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It never feels good to set a manuscript aside when the writing’s going well. Sadly, because I’ve never mastered the art of working on two books at once, I’m putting my half-written YA novel on hold for the next few weeks while I attend to the editorial report on a historical fantasy for adults, Flame [...]

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Thanks to all who contributed logos in the Writer Unboxed logo contest. The competition was fierce, with forty entries vying for our affections. In the end, we gravitated toward a few logos that used imagery to show a sort of unboxing. Here’s what we loved, now you tell us what you love. Take a look [...]

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Hi everyone, If you’ve experienced problems with links, or any other form of wonky-ness relating to your experience at WU between Friday and today, we want you to know you’re not alone. On Friday, our web host informed us that WU was under a distributed denial-of-service attack, and needed to shut us down. We’ve been [...]

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Update: The auction has ended! Thank you for all who participated–and who tried to participate–despite the problems the site had over the weekend. We appreciate all of you. ____________________________ As promised, our first ever Writer Unboxed auction begins today. We are excited to offer you opportunities to gain valuable attention in exchange for funds that [...]

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Want to bid to win a guest post opportunity with Writer Unboxed? The winning post will go live on Writer Unboxed in March of this year, on a FRIDAY. We only put a blog post up for bid once before, with the Writers for the Red Cross auction, and it went for a healthy $400. [...]

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Want to bid to have your book appear as one of three profiled ads in a Writer Unboxed rotating ad? Your ad will run for two weeks in our sidebar, anytime within the next year. You tell us when. Look at the top-left sidebar of our homepage. See the rotating ads there—with Therese Walsh’s The [...]

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Want to bid to win Writer Unboxed’s skyscraper ad space? Your ad will run at the top of our sidebar for two weeks, anytime within the next year. You tell us when. Look at the top-left sidebar of our homepage. See the ad there under the header “Skyscraper Ad”? That space is what you’re bidding [...]

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Writer Unboxed will be taking a little break between now and the first of the year. We have big plans for 2012, but we’d also like to hear from you about what you’d like to see here in the coming months. Have burning questions? A topic you’d love for us to cover? Let us know, and [...]

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(Clarification: I’ve collected these requests from more than twenty authors I know – these are not my gripes about my own publishers- M.J. Rose) Dear BookBiz Santa, Please give us sales numbers we can actually understand. Make royalty statements as clear as possible re: HOW MANY BOOKS we have actually SOLD. In the same vein, [...]

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GIVEAWAY: It’s holiday giveaway time! And that means TWO giveaways for this post. I am (again) excited to give away a free copy of the new 2012 Guide to Literary Agents to a random commenter, and I will also give away a copy of my humor book, How to Survive a Garden Gnome Attack, to [...]

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Late at night is when the pain is the worst. The aching void. The silence. The knowledge that what once was is now gone. Forever. It’s not like we didn’t know it was going to happen. This was a love affair that we knew would end. We both knew this going in, but I don’t [...]

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