Okay, so much good! First, happy one-day-belated book birthday to Faith Hunter and Carol Malcolm, whose JANE YELLOWROCK WORLD COMPANION came out in digital yesterday and is available everywhere! They’re having a release party starting at noon today (though you can RSVP now) over at Bitten by Books and giving away a $50 gift card! Continue reading “Book Birthdays, Giveaways and Best of 2013!”
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Magical Words and Gift Ideas
First, Tuesdays YA Rebels (aka me and Amy Christine Parker) offer up great gift ideas this holiday season for readers and writers. If you’re one of the above, you might want to discretely post this link somewhere like your Facebook page to give your significant other ideas! Also, I’m up at Magical Words today,Continue reading “Magical Words and Gift Ideas”
Let me hear you!
I started my blog in February 2008. (Before it was here, it was over on LiveJournal at http://varkat.livejournal.com.) This means that I’ve been blogging for about six years now. In that time so much about the industry has changed that my earliest blogs sound like nostalgia for some bygone era when people still sent paperContinue reading “Let me hear you!”
Book Birthdays and Rebel Reads
It seems the days when I could count on things being quiet enough to post a leisurely blog are far behind me, so I’m a couple of days late posting my happy book birthdays for the week. Here are some great, great reads just out! KICKING IT edited by Faith Hunter and Kalayna Price ThisContinue reading “Book Birthdays and Rebel Reads”
What I’m Thankful For
I want to take a second out of the insane preparations for the holiday to talk about what I’m thankful for this season. (Full disclosure: someone else in my family is hosting Thanksgiving and my husband is cooking our contributions, so mostly this involves me trying to get a week’s worth of work done inContinue reading “What I’m Thankful For”
Shout out to new voices!
Sending for the newsletter, but also for a huge WHOO HOO! So beside myself with excitement to see J. Kathleen Cheney’s debut novel THE GOLDEN CITY on Library Journal’s list of Best Books of 2013: SF/Fantasy! It’s so funny, because just the other day some writers were bemoaning on my Facebook page the way theContinue reading “Shout out to new voices!”
The Great Agent Hunt
Amy Christine Parker did a good job covering the dos after I had fun with the don’ts in our YA Rebels video this week. I add a few dos of my own over on my Magical Words post today on The Great Agent Hunt. If you want more, I did a previous Magical Words blogContinue reading “The Great Agent Hunt”
The right and wrong ways to find a literary agent
Amy Christine Parker and I cover the right and wrong ways to find a literary agent.
More whoos and hoos
Our Tuesday YA Rebels video will be up later today, giving tips on how to (and not to) find a literary agent. I’m not ashamed to say that my thirteen year old son has to upload this for me – not because I don’t know what I’m doing, but because his tech is way moreContinue reading “More whoos and hoos”
Whoo hoos!
It’s exciting any time a book I rep gets a starred review or some kind of extra attention, but when it’s a debut, especially, I just want to shout from the rooftops, “Yay, I’ve always loved this book and think you should all rush out for a copy to find out why!” Or two…or threeContinue reading “Whoo hoos!”
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