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Community Story — Let’s go!

Ok, so I know I said I was going to start this last week, but work took over once again and left me with a bit of a cold. No problem, though. There’s nothing like the present to start having some fun. Congratulations to Shane whose Community Story beginning got the most votes. A quick…
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Don’t give up

Children’s author Jill Corcoran posted a great quote on her blog on Wednesday, a tidbit of advice from editor Alvina Ling. Alvina reminds us of Julie Andrews’ quote that “perserverance is falling 19 times and suceeding the 20th.” Alvina goes on to say that many authors went through a number of rejections before they were published:…
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Vote for the Community Story

I finally finished my novel revision on Saturday, only three days past my end-of-year deadline. At least it’s finished. Next up, finish editing a friend’s novel, do our taxes (ugg) and then back to my novel for a good polish. Even though I’ve just finished the revision, I actually can’t wait to start from the beginning again.…
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Happy New Year

It’s New Year’s Eve, a few hours before 2009, and I’m sad to say I didn’t make my goal of finishing my novel revision by the end of the year. (I could bust my butt and do it tonight, but my husband, a friend and I are going to see in the new year with…
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Interview with Ellen Booraem Part 1

Missed writing yesterday, but today I had extra time and got through two chapters. Yay! I worked out that I have to do close to two scenes a day for the rest of the year (except the holidays) if I want to have the book completely revised by Jan. 1. Tomorrow’s goal: Chapters 21 and…
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Day 12

Another late post. Busy day today. But it was a good writing morning for day 12 of my unofficial participation in National Novel Writing Month. It didn’t start out so well. I got up, planted myself in front of the computer, wrote a sentence, and thought, “I have no idea where I’m going with this…
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How to find critique groups

In my last post, Sandra asked how to find critique groups. So, here’s a quick rundown. I write for children, so I found my critique group through the Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators, of which I’m a member. If you write or illustrate for children and you’re not a member of SCBWI, I…
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Why do we write

Literary agent Nathan Bransford put up a post last week posing a hypothetical question (click here for the post): If someone could tell you the future, would you want to know if you will be published, and if you found out you wouldn’t, would you still write?   The post got a lot of people talking,…
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Finding some time

My day job has been kicking my butt, lately. It’s a busy time of year for us, and I’ve been swamped, which, of course, has put all my passion work — my own projects — on the back burner.   Last week, I didn’t get anything done on the Florida Sir Newton Color Me book,…
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Don’t be nervous

With my focus now on the Sir Newton books, I started making publicity calls for Sir Newton’s Color Me Hawai’i, which launched earlier this year. I’m late in doing promotions (you really want a nice big push when the book first appears in stores – but the beginning of this year was crazy, with a move to…
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