tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21902681815683309582024-03-18T15:57:31.069-04:00The blog of YA author and cover designer, Lisa AmowitzThe blog of Lisa Amowitz, writer of YA urban fantasy, cover designer and Professor of Graphic Design at Bronx Community College. Guest posts on writing, promotion, book reviews, design, art, music, film, history and all nerdish delights welcome.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00725012086692924891noreply@blogger.comBlogger210125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2190268181568330958.post-14602021274026495272017-07-18T20:00:00.000-04:002017-07-18T22:46:13.764-04:00<div class="MsoNormal">
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<b>Greetings, aspiring writers of YA! I am Lisa Amowitz and this my second year as a Pitch Wars mentor. Last year was an AMAZING experience. I met so many cool people online and read a lot of great stuff! I had a wonderful mentee, Adam Sass, whom I enjoyed working with so much. </b><br />
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<b>So what I've learned about Pitch Wars is that compatibility and work styles is as important to me as my love of your writing. Adam and I were a perfect fit as far as temperament and work syle. And even though he did not get that all important call (I ADORE his book), I am certain his manuscript is way further along than it was. He is not giving up!</b><o:p></o:p><br />
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<b>I am also known as The Squirrel because I like to gather stuff—like awesome writers and their manuscripts!</b><br />
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Publishing takes grit and continuous work and struggle to improve. I'm still learning myself.<br />
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My first book BREAKING GLASS, was published in 2013, but behind that moment was a long, long road of skill building, rejection, and loads and loads of constructive feedback to wade through. Behind that moment are three different agents, heartbreak, meltdowns. Many times I was ready to give up, but crawled and scratched my way back to the writing chair.</div>
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Why? Because I had stories in me, pushing to get out. Stories I had to tell myself. And if I wanted to tell those stories, I reasoned, maybe someone else might want to read them if I worked hard enough.<o:p></o:p></div>
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To do that I realized, I needed to develop the hide of a dinosaur and the steady determination of the ocean tide. I had to continue while watching others succeed as I did not.<br />
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<b>I had to tell myself this:</b></div>
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<b>There is always someone out there who strikes gold while you only get coal.</b></div>
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<b>The process took me years—and it’s still ongoing.</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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Does that sound like you? Are you just itching to get your story out there, not for fame and money, but just because it deserves to be read?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Heck, I’m a professional helper. I’m a Professor of Graphic Design—I help people learn for a living.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I have no formal degree in writing, just an MFA in Fine Art. My writing cred comes from the internet and the countless people whom, over the years helped me polish my craft. I’ve seen many of these transform from hesitant beginners to accomplished authors because THEY DID NOT GIVE UP.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This is <b><span style="color: red;">who</span></b> I am:<o:p></o:p><br />
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I’m less about line edits (though I am kind of a sentence structure geek), and more about pacing, plotting, deleting slack scenes and extra words. If you are delicate about your ms and sensitive to red ink—I AM NOT YOUR MENTOR. I may be tough—but I am kind. I will let you know what shines, and help you cut out what is dragging down your manuscript.<o:p></o:p></div>
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If you have the passion, drive, and stubborn determination to prevail, no matter the amount of setbacks (there are ALWAYS setbacks in publishing. It really never ends…just saying) then<o:p></o:p></div>
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This year I'm limiting my WL to <b>fantasy of all varieties: contemporary, urban, myth and fairytale retellings, high fantasy, creepy and dark, historical....and drumroll: Sci-fi,</b> but with great characters and heart. Nothing too tech-heavy.<br />
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I might consider <b>historical or magical reality</b> if it hits my sweet spot (see below for said sweet spot).<br />
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I’m looking for textured, beautiful, magical YA with a distinctive voice. Great world building is a must. <i>Fluff is not</i>! I <b>don't want light-hearted frothy romance-heavy stuff</b>--though I do love romance (of all gender mash-ups) as a sub-plot. NO EROTICA, though. Also, I love #ownvoices, diversity in representation, gender, neuro-diversity--you name it.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">If you have voice, conflict, and stakes—then you may be MY MENTEE!</span></b></div>
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1. Of course, it’s no surprise I love <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">HARRY POTTER</b> and the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">HUNGER GAMES</b>. But that’s been done. If you could come up with some new twist on it, fine—I’m your mentor.<o:p></o:p></div>
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2. One of my favorite books of all time is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">THE BOOK THIEF, </b>by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Marcus Zusak</b>. This book literally changed me as an author. It taught me the power of voice. Yes, it is somewhat magical reality, as it is narrated by Death! Yep—falls right into my zone.<o:p></o:p></div>
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3. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Maggie Stiefvater’s</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">RAVEN CYCLE. </b>Maggie is my patron saint. Her finely detailed characters, her creepy bad guys, her incredible sense of place, coupled with the wonderfully original blend of myth and magic in her stories, makes her most definitely, my <b>Goddess of All Words</b>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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4. <b>Laini Taylor's STRANGE THE DREAMER, </b>blew me away!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Crazy, poetic, lyrical, imaginative. I live for this book.<br />
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5. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Patrick Ness:</b> I kind of worship this guy. He is the king of voice and totally original narratives, combining depth, humor and total strangeness. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">THE CHAOS WALKING</b> trilogy is right up there in my pantheon. Also, I am a huge fan of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MORE THAN THIS</b>. Confession: I have not yet read <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">A MONSTER CALLS (but I did see the movie).<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">6. Ransom Rigg’s MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN. </b>Twisted, dark strange: Love, love LOVE!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">7. Leigh Bardugo: SIX OF CROWS. </b>How do I love this book? Let me count the ways: Character—so intricate—all interwoven with their own secrets and pasts. <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Storyline? Tense, suspenseful—unpredictable. All of this pulled together with deft, vivid prose. SWOON!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>8</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">. <b>Ruta Sepetys: SALT TO THE SEA </b>Strictly historical, it’s really not that different in structure from SIX of CROWS in that it unfolds in four POVS and follows the character’s converging story lines. Very human, very dark—Gorgeous prose you can eat with a spoon. It hardly gets better than this.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">9. <b>ILLUMINAE, by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff. </b>I’m not always a big reader of sci-fi, but I am a huge Star Wars and Star Trek fan, so any YA that has all of the above features and is set in space or the future works for me. This book was so original and amazing. I actually listened to the audio book which was performed like an old fashioned radio play. Incredible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Anne Rice: INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE; Stephen King: THE STAND, STAND BY ME; Robert Heinlein: Stranger in a Strange Land; Marie Lu: Young Elites; Victoria Schwab: Vicious, A Darker Shade of Magic; John Green: Looking for Alaska.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11pt;">Lisa Amowitz is an award winning author of three fantasy/thrillers for young adults, UNTIL BETH [Spencer Hill Press, 2015], VISION [Spencer Hill Press, 2014], and BREAKING GLASS [Spencer Hill Press, 2013].<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11pt;">She is also a cover designer and Professor of Graphic Design at Bronx Community College. </span><span style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="http://www.bcc.cuny.edu/">www.bcc.cuny.edu</a></span><span style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11pt;">She is represented by Shannon Hassan of<br />Marsal-Lyon Literary Agency <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://michelladomenici.wordpress.com/2017/07/18/pitch-wars-2017-mentor-wish-list" target="_blank">Michella Domenici</a></div>
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<a href="https://carliesorosiak.com/pitch-wars/" target="_blank">Carlie Sorosiak</a></div>
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<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11055297.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="http://www.onlybylaura.com/pitch-wars-mentor-wishlist" target="_blank">Laura Pohl</a></div>
<br />
10. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11055401.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="http://samanthajoyce.com/pw2017wishlist/" target="_blank">Samantha Joyce</a></div>
<br />
11. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11056317.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="http://www.katherinefleet.com/blog" target="_blank">Katherine Fleet</a></div>
<br />
12. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11056372.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="http://www.metuiteme.com/blog" target="_blank">Amelinda Bérubé</a></div>
<br />
13. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11057129.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="https://erinfosterhartley.wordpress.com/2017/07/18/my-pitch-wars-2017-wishlist/" target="_blank">Erin Foster Hartley</a></div>
<br />
14. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11057405.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="https://mariemeyerbooks.com/2017/07/18/pitch-wars-mentor-wishlist-bio-2017/" target="_blank">Marie Meyer</a></div>
<br />
15. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11058600.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="http://akemidawnbowman.com/2017/07/pitch-wars-wishlist" target="_blank">Akemi Dawn Bowman</a></div>
<br />
16. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11059116.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="http://www.mollyelee.com/blog/2017-pitch-wars-bio-wish-list" target="_blank">Molly E. Lee</a></div>
<br />
17. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11059302.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="http://www.kipwilsonwrites.com/?p=2251&preview=true" target="_blank">Kip Wilson</a></div>
<br />
18. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11059485.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="http://kkazulwolf.com/2017/07/18/pitch-wars-intro/" target="_blank">K. Kazul Wolf</a></div>
<br />
19. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11059919.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="http://naomiedits.com/pitch-wars-2017.html" target="_blank">Naomi Hughes</a></div>
<br />
20. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11059991.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="http://www.aimeelsalter.com/2017/07/my-pitchwars-ya-mentor-bio-and-wishlist.html" target="_blank">Aimee L. Salter</a></div>
<br />
21. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11060054.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="https://emilywibberley.com/pitch-wars-2017-wishlist/" target="_blank">Austin and Emily</a></div>
<br />
22. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11060456.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="https://katchowrites.wordpress.com/2017/07/18/claribel-kats-pitch-wars-wishlist" target="_blank">Claribel Ortega and Kat Cho</a></div>
<br />
23. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11060559.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="http://ladennison.com/pitch-wars-2017-mentor-bio/" target="_blank">Laurie Dennison</a></div>
<br />
24. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11060623.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="http://wp.me/P5qzh8-9e" target="_blank">Ashley Hearn</a></div>
<br />
25. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11061144.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="https://www.rschaefferbooks.com/pitchwars" target="_blank">Rebecca Schaeffer</a></div>
<br />
26. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11061728.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="https://rebeccadenton.me/2017/06/16/pitch-wars-lets-ave-it/" target="_blank">Rebecca Denton</a></div>
</td><td align="left" class="blenza-td" valign="top" width="33%">27. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11062054.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="http://scribblebabble.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Mara Rutherford and Joan He</a></div>
<br />
28. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11062867.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="https://alicialclancy.wixsite.com/mysite/single-post/2017/06/18/Pitch-Wars-Mentor-Bio" target="_blank">Alicia Clancy</a></div>
<br />
29. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11063106.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="http://www.kristenciccarelli.com/pitch-wars" target="_blank">Kristen Ciccarelli and Joanna Hathaway</a></div>
<br />
30. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11063804.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="http://natashaneagle.com/2017-pitch-wars-wishlist/" target="_blank">Natasha Neagle</a></div>
<br />
31. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11063863.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="https://lyndsayely.wordpress.com/2017/07/18/pitch-wars-2017-wish-list/" target="_blank">Lyndsay Ely</a></div>
<br />
32. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11066059.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="http://judilauren.com/?p=410&preview=true" target="_blank">Judi Lauren</a></div>
<br />
33. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11066834.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="http://www.mmhoffmanbooks.com/pitch-wars-mentor-bio/" target="_blank">Monica M. Hoffman</a></div>
<br />
34. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11067851.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="http://wp.me/p6vlU2-cO" target="_blank">Kelly Ann Hopkins</a></div>
<br />
35. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11068410.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="http://www.helenedunbar.com/blog/our-pitchwars-wishlist-2017" target="_blank">Helene Dunbar and Beth Hull</a></div>
<br />
36. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11068466.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="http://www.boekwegbooks.com/2017/07/pitch-wars-mentor-blog-swap-sheena.html" target="_blank">Sheena Boekweg</a></div>
<br />
37. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11069969.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="http://mkengland.com/?p=620&preview=true" target="_blank">M.K. England and Jamie Pacton</a></div>
<br />
38. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11070519.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="http://wp.me/p29p7E-aL" target="_blank">Nikki Roberti</a></div>
<br />
39. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11070636.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="https://writenextchapter.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Jenny Chou</a></div>
<br />
40. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11070863.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="http://wp.me/p2aC2P-2iu" target="_blank">Amy Trueblood</a></div>
<br />
41. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11070878.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="http://www.isabelibanezdavis.com/blog-1/2017/6/16/pitch-wars-wish-list-2017" target="_blank">Isabel Ibanez Davis</a></div>
<br />
42. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11070926.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="https://swordsandstilettos.blogspot.com/2017/07/pitchwars-2017-mentor-blog-hop.html" target="_blank">Kristin Smith and Beth Ellyn Summer</a></div>
<br />
43. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11071465.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="https://lisa-amowitzya.blogspot.com/2017/07/greetings-aspiring-writers-of-ya-i-am.html" target="_blank">Lisa Amowitz</a></div>
<br />
44. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11071526.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="http://www.colegibsen.com/" target="_blank">Cole Gibsen</a></div>
<br />
45. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11071541.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="https://www.natalkaburian.com/pitch-wars/" target="_blank">Natalka Burian</a></div>
<br />
46. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11071696.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="https://katekaryusquinn.blogspot.com/2017/07/gonna-make-you-sweat-everybody-dance-now.html" target="_blank">Kate Karyus Quinn and Mindy McGinnis</a></div>
<br />
47. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11072084.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="http://www.soniahartl.com/-pitchwars.html" target="_blank">Sonia Hartl and Annette Christie</a></div>
<br />
48. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11072316.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="http://wp.me/pBC5g-lj" target="_blank">Kit Frick</a></div>
<br />
49. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11072754.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="https://susangrayfoster.wordpress.com/2017/07/18/my-pitch-wars-wishlist" target="_blank">Susan Gray Foster</a></div>
<br />
50. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11073425.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="http://www.sarahnicolas.com/2017/07/pitch-wars-wishlist.html" target="_blank">Sarah Nicolas</a></div>
<br />
51. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11073490.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="http://monibw.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Monica Bustamante and Kerbie Addis</a></div>
<br />
52. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11073563.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="https://mckelleblogs.wordpress.com/2016/07/19/pitchwars/" target="_blank">McKelle George and Heather Cashman</a></div>
</td><td align="left" class="blenza-td" valign="top" width="33%">53. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11073718.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="http://andthenshewaslikeblahblahblah.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">RuthAnne Snow</a></div>
<br />
54. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11074169.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="https://lauramsteven.tumblr.com/post/162864264228/my-pitchwars-2017-wishlist" target="_blank">Laura Steven</a></div>
<br />
55. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11074713.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="http://www.dianagallagherbooks.com/blog/lightscamerapitch-wars-wishlist-2017" target="_blank">Diana Gallagher and Katrina Emmel</a></div>
<br />
56. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11074750.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="http://www.jennyferguson.ca/pitchwars-2017/hi-and-welcome-to-pitch-wars-im-jen-and-im-a-mentor-in-the-adult-category" target="_blank">Jen Ferguson and Gracie West</a></div>
<br />
57. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11074753.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="http://kestrester.com/" target="_blank">Kes Trester</a></div>
<br />
58. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11075257.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="https://jeanmarie-anaya.squarespace.com/config/pages/577e9731d1758e97560ad2d5" target="_blank">Jeanmarie Anaya</a></div>
<br />
59. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11075322.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="https://catherinescully.com/2017/07/18/pitchwars-blog-hop-and-wishlist/" target="_blank">Cat Scully</a></div>
<br />
60. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11075769.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="http://heatherezell.com/2017/07/pitch-wars-2017/" target="_blank">Heather Ezell and Rachel Griffin</a></div>
<br />
61. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11075857.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="http://www.stephaniescott.net/2017/07/pitch-wars-2017-mentor-bio-stephanie-scott-erica-chapman/" target="_blank">Stephanie Scott and Erica M. Chapman</a></div>
<br />
62. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11075862.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="https://linseymiller.tumblr.com/PWMentorBio2k17" target="_blank">Linsey Miller and Maria Mora </a></div>
<br />
63. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11076257.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="http://heathersmithmeloche.blogspot.com/p/pitch-wars-2017.html" target="_blank">Kristin Bartley Lenz and Heather Smith Meloche</a></div>
<br />
64. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11076259.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="http://www.kellydevos.us/pitchwars/" target="_blank">Kelly deVos</a></div>
<br />
65. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11076294.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="http://www.tomiadeyemi.com/blog/teamclaws-pitch-wars-wishlist" target="_blank">Tomi Adeyemi and Kit Grant</a></div>
<br />
66. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11076338.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="https://rhiannon-hart.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Rhiannon Hart</a></div>
<br />
67. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11076415.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="http://shortcuttoshrums.blogspot.com/2017/07/pitch-wars-wishlist-2017.html" target="_blank">Brianna Shrum</a></div>
<br />
68. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11076467.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="http://www.emilymartinwrites.com/2017/07/18/pitch-wars-wish-list-and-bio-2017-edition/" target="_blank">Emily Martin</a></div>
<br />
69. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11076494.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="http://natasharazi.com/pitchwars" target="_blank">Natasha Razi</a></div>
<br />
70. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11076685.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="https://tabithamartin.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Tabitha Martin</a></div>
<br />
71. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11076709.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="http://jamiehowardauthor.com/2017/07/19/2017-pitch-wars-mentor-bio-wishlist" target="_blank">Jamie Howard</a></div>
<br />
72. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11076711.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="http://www.lindseyfrydman.com/blog" target="_blank">Lindsey Frydman</a></div>
<br />
73. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11076729.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="http://jennalincoln.net/jl/pitch-wars-2017-blog-hop-mentor-bio-and-wish-list/" target="_blank">Jenna Lincoln</a></div>
<br />
74. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11076739.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="https://destinycole.com/2017/07/18/wishlist2017/" target="_blank">Destiny Cole</a></div>
<br />
75. <br />
<div>
<img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/thumbs/b/brenleedrake/MjltYXkyMDE3YQ==/11076884.png" height="75" width="75" /><br />
<a href="http://www.dawnius.com/blog/item/68-2017-pitch-wars-wishlist-bio" target="_blank">Dawn Ius </a></div>
<br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 26.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The following authors will be attending #YAFest2017.</span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Mark Alpert!</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, author of THE SIX series. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Lisa Amowitz</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, author of UNTIL BETH</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Holli Anderson!</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, author of THE FIVE series</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Maria Andreu!</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, author of THE SECRET SIDE OF EMPTY</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Cyn Balog</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, author of UNNATURAL DEEDS</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Hannah Barnaby!</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, author of SOME OF THE PARTS</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Michele Barrow-Belisle!</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, author of FAERIE SONG TRILOGY</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Selene Castrovilla!</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, author of SIGNS OF LIFE</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Chrissa Jean Chappell</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, author of MORE THAN GOOD ENOUGH</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Kelly Hashway</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, author of INTO THE FIRE</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Christine Heppermann!,</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> author of ASK ME HOW I GOT HERE</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Jeff Hirsch</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, author of BLACK RIVER FALLS</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Jenny Perinovic!</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, author of THE ASYLUM SAGA series</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Danielle Rollins!</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, author of the upcoming BURNING</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ** As Danielle Vega, author of THE MERCILESS</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Tiffany Schmidt</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, author of ONCE UPON A CRIME FAMILY series</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Kieran Scott,</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> author of WHAT WAITS IN THE WOODS</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Kara Thomas!</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, author of THE DARKEST CORNERS</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Yvonne Ventresca</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, author of BLACK FLOWERS, WHITE LIES</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>K.M. Walton</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, author of the upcoming ULTIMATUM</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Meg Wiviott!</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, author of PAPER HEARTS</span></div>
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<p><strong>One Summer with Autumn </strong><br><strong>Julie Reece</strong><br>Published by: Swoon Romance<br>Publication date: October 18th 2016<br>Genres: Contemporary, Romance, Young Adult</p><blockquote><p>Seventeen-year-old Autumn Teslow arrives at her father’s job fair knowing she’ll never measure up to the perfect image of daddy’s little girl—her twin sister.</p>
<p>Wearing anger management issues like a second skin won’t help Autumn win her dad’s approval for the big trip she’s been planning—or meet his condition that she successfully complete a summer internship for college.</p>
<p>Autumn’s cool unravels when her sister lectures against disappointing the family again. And when a young, bearded guy steps through the crowd to settle the growing argument between siblings, Autumn lashes out, dubbing him a “Duck Dynasty wannabe.”</p>
<p>At Nineteen, Caden Behr is clueless as to why his man parts are threatened by the fearsome girl before him. He’d only come to find an intern for his recreational equipment company, not break up a girl-fight between two sisters.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, the only candidate left is the girl who just told him off. Without her, he’ll never prove to his CEO mother that he’s ready for more responsibility.</p>
<p>Autumn and Caden agree that if they can keep from killing one another, they can use one another to get what they want and then never have to see each other again. Which is what they want.</p>
<p>Until it isn’t.</p>
<p>Because despite her best efforts to scare him off, and his fading desire to push her into the lake, they’re beginning to enjoy the time they spend together. But pride is a hard habit to break. And if neither will admit their changing feelings, they could lose a whole lot more than one summer.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">There’s a tap, tapping on my shoulder.</p>
<p>“Excuse me, Ms. Teslow?”</p>
<p>I whirl away from my sister and bump a broad, plaid covered chest. Annoyed, I step back and crane my neck up several inches. Whoever he is, he’s a good six feet against my five foot two—with heels. “Yeah?” I snap.</p>
<p>Feet apart, the guy has a confident, almost cocky stance. His face is mostly hidden between a full, copper beard and the cap pulled low over his eyes. The tanned skin of his arms shows where his sleeves are rolled back. The guy could pass for the centerfold in a lumberjack calendar, if you’re into that sort of thing. Which I’m not.</p>
<p>“What do you want?”</p>
<p>“Uh … ” He glances at Sydney and back to me. “I was told you like working outdoors and might be interested in a job?”</p>
<p><em>Wait, zoo guy?</em></p>
<p>My cheeks blaze as I realize what’s happening. Sydney said if I didn’t try, I’d regret it, though this set-up is elaborate, even for her. I don’t know where she found the lumber-clown standing in front of me, but with a few empty promises, my sister can make any boy her puppet. Well, she’s gone too far this time.</p>
<p>“Really?” I say. “And what job is that, exactly? Cage scrubber, chief dung shoveler? No, thank you.”</p>
<p>“What?” he asks, eyes widening. “I don’t think—”</p>
<p>“That’s obvious.” My finger pokes his very firm chest. “I’m sure you two think you’re clever, but if this is some sick way of sucking up to my sister, it’s pointless. Gorillas aren’t her type.”</p>
<p>“Hey! Now wait just a—”</p>
<p>“My sister swaps guys like other girls change their days-of-the-week panties. Now, if you want to keep your balls intact, I suggest you get out of my way. I don’t need your fake job, or to work for some hairy Duck Dynasty wannabe, too dumb to know when he’s being played.”</p>
<p>The idiot blinks once as I push past him. Through the silent crowd I walk, head held high, toward the gym’s double doors. And freedom.</p>
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<p>Did she just call me a Duck Dynasty wannabe?</p>
<p>Okay. Now, I’m pissed. Unwilling to give this girl the last word, I pivot to face her and see nothing but a rigid back. “Hey! Wait a minute. You can’t just … Don’t hate on the beard!” No reaction from the angry creature storming away from me. <em>Brilliant comeback, by the way,</em> I tell myself.</p>
<p>Maybe she does have my balls.</p>
<p>Caught between insulted and twisted fascination, my mind tries to unravel the chain of events where I definitely missed something. Clearly, the girl thinks I’m her enemy, but I have no clue what I did.</p>
<p>Also, she’s insane.</p>
<p>The room’s gone quiet. As I glance around, I notice a fairly large crowd has gathered. Not surprising after that show, I guess, except they’re full-on staring at me. Some expressions are obviously amused, while others seem sympathetic. Most turn away, shaking their heads or looking embarrassed as I meet their gazes. My face is too warm and my heartbeats won’t slow. All of it makes me feel like a first class chump. Like I need pity for being bested by some shrieking, pygmy-girl. Pride tenses my shoulders, stiffens my neck. I glare at the closed double doors, tilting my head until my neck bones release a satisfying crack.</p>
<p>Oh, it’s on.</p>
<p>The girl is going down.</p>
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<p>As a child, Julie’s summers were about horseback riding and fishing, while winter brought sledding and ice-skating on frozen ponds. Most of life was magical, but not all. She struggled with multiple learning disabilities, and spent much of her time gazing out windows and daydreaming. In the fourth grade (with the help of one very nice teacher) she fought dyslexia for her right to read and won.</p>
<p>Afterward, she invented stories where powerful heroines kicked bad-guy butt to win the hearts charismatic heroes. And then she wrote one down…</p>
<p>Writing ever since, Julie weaves southern gothic, contemporary, fantasy, and young adult romances. She enjoys sweeping tales of mystery and epic adventure… which must include a really hot guy. Her writing is proof a dream and some hard work can overcome any obstacle.</p>
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true love, Jack Bauer, Halloween, muscle cars, and all things that go bump in
the night. She lives in Alberta, Canada with her husband, Jeff, two large breed
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 12pt;">While writing OVERDRIVE, I cranked up a long list of fast-paced, adrenaline-pumping tunes, many of which are likely familiar as they’ve been featured on the kinds of movies that inspired the book—<i>Gone in 60 Seconds, Fast & The Furious, Oceans 11,</i> etc., plus there are some throwbacks to a few of my favorite movies, like <i>Lost Boys </i>and <i>The Terminator. </i>(Kyle Reece is still one of my favorite movie boyfriends…)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "helvetica neue";">The energy of this beat really got my adrenaline pumping for writing the chase scenes. And I guess there are a few of those scenes…;-)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "helvetica neue";">Pedal to the Metal - Kazzer <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "helvetica neue";">Another heist scene favorite, and the first song that made my own driving playlist when I bought my 2009 RX-8 after selling my debut, <i>Anne & Henry</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "helvetica neue";">Drive It Like You Stole It - Glitch Mob<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "helvetica neue";">This song was on repeat for the opening scene, which was probably one of the most fun scenes I have ever written.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "helvetica neue";">Nightcall - Kavinsky <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "helvetica neue";">The perfect tune to play during one of the night heists—there’s something so hypnotizing about the beat and Kavinsky’s voice. Plus, I love the movie in which it’s featured—<i>Drive. </i>(Ryan Gosling!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "helvetica neue";">Alive - SIA<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "helvetica neue";">I can’t even narrow down when this track was played—perhaps in almost every scene. Sia has such a powerful voice, and this song is so emotional it forced me to go deeper into my characters’ emotions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "helvetica neue";">Boost Me - Gone in 60 Seconds Soundtrack<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "helvetica neue";">Self-explanatory? So many songs from the <i>Gone in 60 Seconds</i> soundtrack could have made the cut. I love this one a lot.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "helvetica neue";">Terminator (Theme Song)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "helvetica neue";">Such a great mood setting song—and from the soundtrack of a classic movie. I love the way it builds suspense, and I listened to it on repeat while writing some of the more tense scenes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "helvetica neue";">Pistols at Dawn - Senabo Sey <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "helvetica neue";">Slowing it down for a particular scene, of which cannot be named because…spoiler ;-) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "helvetica neue";">Cry Little Sister - G Tom Mac <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "helvetica neue";">This song has always been so haunting to me, and I played it often while writing some of the more ominous scenes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "helvetica neue";">On the Other Side - Jessica Bell<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 12pt;">Written and performed by my dear friend, Jessica Bell, this song wound its way into several scenes—her voice is so beautiful and moving. And this video! Wow! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNHjmUcg44nKAu6-TUHmQpiLvqYUeJe9Bnln7U8gVTq6lP5pEaUiza3JXFvDsT-MCrJrP81laY8bgCZSDltC3P8LkObOtlJ38k0TBLJqLa78dqg-PwXOgnZ_Nnc1EmIeRnbXuhzVUPONw/s1600/Pintip+cropped.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNHjmUcg44nKAu6-TUHmQpiLvqYUeJe9Bnln7U8gVTq6lP5pEaUiza3JXFvDsT-MCrJrP81laY8bgCZSDltC3P8LkObOtlJ38k0TBLJqLa78dqg-PwXOgnZ_Nnc1EmIeRnbXuhzVUPONw/s200/Pintip+cropped.jpg" width="128" /></a><span style="color: #3d596d; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11.5pt;">Author bio: </span><span style="color: #666666;">Pintip Dunn is a New York Times bestselling author of YA
fiction. She graduated from Harvard University, <em>magna cum laude</em>,
with an A.B. in English Literature and Language. She received
her J.D. at Yale Law School, where she was an editor of the YALE LAW
JOURNAL. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Pintip
is represented by literary agent Beth Miller of </span><span style="mso-field-code: " HYPERLINK \0022http\:\/\/www\.writershouse\.com\/\0022 \\t \0022_blank\0022 ";"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #52c4bc;">Writers House</span></span></span><span style="color: #666666;">. Her debut novel, FORGET TOMORROW, won the RWA RITA® for
Best First Book. Her other novels include THE DARKEST LIE and the forthcoming
REMEMBER YESTERDAY.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "proxima-nova","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">She lives with
her husband and children in Maryland. You can learn more about Pintip and
her books at </span><a href="http://www.pintipdunn.com/"><span style="font-family: "proxima-nova","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">www.pintipdunn.com</span></a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "proxima-nova","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00725012086692924891noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2190268181568330958.post-75767214123429470112016-08-17T14:39:00.000-04:002016-08-17T14:44:15.306-04:00#Pitch Wars: The Window Closes PSA #1 All my dirty secrets revealed...<h2 style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
REMINDER: To repeat an old cliche that has been repeated to me more times than I can count:</h2>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Your writing career is a MARATHON and not a sprint.</span></b></div>
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<i><b><span style="font-size: large;">ENDURANCE IS EVERYTHING.</span></b></i></div>
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<b>But let's unpack that.</b> What do I mean by endurance? </div>
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Just pushing and pushing the same manuscript <i>ad nauseum</i> for years and years? Fixing and editing and revising the same old tired thing? How long should you keep revamping the same book? I think that it is sometimes advisable to shelve a manuscript and apply everything you've learned to something new.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Which doesn't mean you can't GO BACK and rewrite that shelved lovely with fresh eyes months or even years later.</span></b></div>
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<b>Let me share my own sordid adventures in writing--all 13 years of them.</b></div>
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You may have deduced that I am a late starter. As in, I had an entire career as a graphic designer, professor, fine artist, and illustrator (not to mention mother of two) behind me. I had even already earned an MFA in painting. I'm not bragging--I'm just trying to explain the ridiculous and improbable nature of my quest...very much like Don Quixote's ambitions. I wasn't exactly looking for a new obsession. It just kind of found me. </div>
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In 2003, I'd wanted to illustrate a children's book--because--well--I am an illustrator/designer. That is what I was trained to do. It's how I saw myself. I'd always "dabbled" in writing and brushed it off as something that came "easily." I'd never struggled with writing in school, but had also never taken it too seriously. It was just a way to get a good grade and sometimes amuse myself with half-baked stories I'd never intended to finish.</div>
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That was until 2003. What was supposed to be a short little picture book, somehow morphed into five notebooks worth of scribbling. At first I thought I had a middle-grade book, until I realized it was really YA. That was after I learned what YA was!</div>
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I did not understand genres, let alone the marketplace. All I knew was that this character (His name was Will, for the record, and I still have the drawings of his never to be published exploits) walked into my brain and stayed there. </div>
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FOR THE NEXT THREE YEARS.</div>
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Yes--three years. Two of which (2003, 2004) I did not admit to ANYONE, except a trusted friend and a family member. You'd think I was a spy or had an addiction. (wait--I did have an addiction).</div>
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I had no one to share my words with, no one to advise me on craft. Honestly, I had no idea there even was such a thing. (Shameful for a person with a graduate degree--but heck--I was an art major).</div>
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All I had a wild meandering plot, and a character I loved. <i>Oh, what a glorious mess!</i></div>
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Finally, after two years of writing in secret, I managed to type the monstrosity into a word doc. At a friend's urging, I sent it to her acquaintance, a big shot at one of the BIG 5 (there were 6 then).</div>
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Do you want to know what said person had to say about my "masterpiece?" </div>
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That I should strongly consider taking a class, or maybe even quitting. </div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: large;">In a word--I SUCKED. I mean-- really, really sucked. And here I was thinking-- Damn! I labored two years over this thing--isn't that worth something?</span></i></b></div>
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I knew I wasn't quitting. Instead, I found an online critique group. And after about a year of ripping, tearing, learning about "show vs. tell", tension, dialogue tags, voice (all things I had NO IDEA existed despite getting a grade of 100 on my HS English exit exams, and "5" on my AP English exam and getting waived from Freshman English). </div>
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The good news is that after seven months of getting my writing chewed and spit back out at me, I made major strides in my craft. So, by the end of 2006, I was ready to query the monster I had been nursing for <b>over three years</b>. (Okay--I will tell you the name--because this thing is dead and it is going to STAY DEAD. It was called <b>TRUE VOICE</b>).</div>
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What really happened was this. I queried my favorite agent (after tons of flailing over query letters, etc.) and actually GOT MY FIRST PARTIAL REQUEST. I was over the moon!!</div>
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So in 2006, I wrote another ms. This time the voice was SPOT ON. It grabbed people. This was IT, everyone said. I finished this book within the year and was querying by the end of the year. And there we go again--LOADS of requests--including one from a HUGE agent. This agent said she LOVED my voice, but didn't think this premise would work--but please do send her my next ms.</div>
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Now, it's 2008. Book TWO (<b>Freaks of Nature</b>, may it rest in peace) is murdered and buried next to Book ONE. I finish my THIRD book (<b>Afterside</b>--may it also rest in peace) in maybe, eight months and send the ms to the BIG AGENT. BIG AGENT signs me in September 2008.</div>
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Fast forward to 2009. BIG AGENT never subs the book. Drops me after the financial freak out and market crash of 2008. Everyone panics and I believe I am finished. Washed up.</div>
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The year I finally decided that I needed to write for <u>my love of it</u>--and nothing more. </div>
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So I worked and wrote and by the end of 2009, had completed Book 4. (I also attended loads of conferences and did whatever I possibly could to improve my craft. In other words I switched gears from getting PUBLISHED to being a BETTER WRITER.</div>
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Now it's 2010. I place runner-up for a WRITER'S DIGEST contest. Which wins me a partial request from another BIG AGENT (no disclosure, but this agent--who did not become my agent, has become a friend.). That agen (who is a terrific agent should you be so lucky to have her), helped me with some big plot problems I had. I queried BOOK 4--got about a 30% request rate and FINALLY in the summer of 2010, landed my second agent--a new agent who has since gone on to greatness (and though I still respect her deeply is not longer my agent--but that's about the biz and not writing. I have a lovely agent now, Shannon Hassan--who is NEVER EVER going to see books 1,2,and 3.)</div>
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So guess what? Agent #2 did not sell my Book 4. Instead, I wrote BOOK NUMBER FIVE.</div>
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That book is BREAKING GLASS, the fifth book I wrote and my first book to get published. </div>
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In 2013. That is a full ten years from the minute I started filling those notebooks.</div>
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I will stop here--though my journey is far from over. Getting published is just another step on the ladder. There is no arrival, only the voyage.</div>
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But here's a good one to leave you chuckling. Remember BOOK FOUR? The book that joined my other three in a shallow grave?</div>
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In 2013, a lightbulb went off, and suddenly I knew how to "fix" BOOK FOUR. Want to know the name of BOOK FOUR?</div>
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Moral of the story? Never give up. But that doesn't mean keep on working and re-working the same manuscript. Put that one aside and write a new one. </div>
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Learn from your mistakes. Listen to your feedback. Apply what you know until something finally sticks!!</div>
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Has this been helpful? I really don't want any of you with a story in your hearts to let those stories go dim. Just know that in the arts, it takes time and effort to perfect your craft.</div>
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Please let me know your own stories and thoughts in the comments below.</div>
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<b>Greetings, aspiring writers of YA! I am Lisa Amowitz and
this my very first year as a Pitch Wars mentor, so I’m kind of a newbie at all
the protocol stuff.</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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However, I am far from a newbie in this publishing game.
Though my first book BREAKING GLASS was published in 2012, behind that moment was
a long, long road of skill building, rejection, and loads and loads of constructive
feedback to wade through. Behind that moment are three different agents,
heartbreak, meltdowns. Many times I was ready to give up, but crawled and
scratched my way back to the writing chair.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Why? Because I had stories in me, pushing to get out.
Stories I had to tell myself. And if I wanted to tell those stories, I reasoned,
maybe someone else might want to read them if I worked hard enough. <o:p></o:p></div>
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To do that I realized, I needed to develop the hide of a
dinosaur and the steady determination of the ocean tide. I had to continue
while watching others succeed as I did not. </div>
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<b>There is always someone out there who strikes gold while you
only get coal.</b></div>
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<b>The process took me years—and it’s still ongoing.</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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Does that sound like you? Are you just itching to get your
story out there, not for fame and money, but just because it deserves to be
read?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Then I’m here to help.
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Heck, I’m a professional helper. I’m a Professor of Graphic
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I have no formal degree in writing, just an MFA in Fine Art.
My writing cred comes from the internet and the countless people whom, over the
years helped me polish my craft. I’ve seen many of these transform from
hesitant beginners to accomplished authors because THEY DID NOT GIVE UP.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As best I can, I’ve tried to give back. How do I work?<o:p></o:p></div>
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I am tough. I’m less about line edits (though I am kind of a
sentence structure geek), and more about pacing, plotting, deleting slack
scenes and extra words. If you are delicate about your ms and sensitive to red
ink—I AM NOT YOUR MENTOR. I may be tough—but I am kind. I will let you know
what shines, and help you cut out what is dragging down your manuscript.<o:p></o:p></div>
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If you have the passion, drive, and stubborn determination
to prevail, no matter the amount of setbacks (there are ALWAYS setbacks in
publishing. It really never ends…just saying) then <o:p></o:p></div>
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I BELIEVE IN YOU!!<o:p></o:p></div>
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So what kind of submission am I looking for? I am YA
only—it’s what I read, what I write, and what I am best suited to work with you
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I lean toward <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">urban
fantasy</i>, clever <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">dystopic</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">mystery/thriller/ghost, magical reality,
historical fantasy, historical fiction, sci-fi,</i> and some <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">contemporary</i>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Love QUIRKY.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I am a looking for books that are lyrical in their use of
language and imagery, detailed in their world-building, genuine in the crafting
of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>true and unique characters. I enjoy
some romance, but I do not think a book whose sole emphasis is on romance is
for me. I like depth—and growth. I crave deeper themes to be explored—though I
am also, very, very plot driven. I love action, suspense, mystery like plants
love the sun.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I’m looking for textured, beautiful, magical YA with a
distinctive voice.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Maybe, to give you a better idea of my tastes I will list my
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1. Of course, it’s no surprise I love <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">HARRY POTTER</b> and the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">HUNGER
GAMES</b>. But that’s been done. If you could come up with some new twist on
it, fine—I’m your mentor.<o:p></o:p></div>
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2. One of my favorite books of all time is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">THE BOOK THIEF, </b>by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Marcus Zusak</b>. This book literally changed me as an author. It
taught me the power of voice. Yes, it is somewhat magical reality, as it is
narrated by Death! Yep—falls right into my zone.<o:p></o:p></div>
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3. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Maggie
Stiefvater’s</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">RAVEN CYCLE. </b>Maggie
is my patron saint. Her finely detailed characters, her creepy bad guys, her
incredible sense of place, coupled with the wonderfully original blend of myth
and magic in her stories, makes her most definitely, my Goddess of All Words.<o:p></o:p></div>
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4. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Alexandra Bracken’s
PASSENGER. </b>Here you have my love of history, fantasy, and voice all rolled
into one single wild adventure of a book. I also loved her <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">DARKEST MINDS</b> series.<o:p></o:p></div>
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5. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Patrick Ness:</b>
I kind of worship this guy. He is the king of voice and totally original
narratives, combining depth, humor and total strangeness. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">THE CHAOS WALKING</b> trilogy is right up there in my pantheon. Also, I
am a huge fan of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MORE THAN THIS</b>.
Confession: I have not yet read <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">A
MONSTER CALLS.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">6. Ransom Rigg’s MISS
PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN. </b>Twisted, dark strange: Love, love
LOVE!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">7. Leigh Bardugo: SIX
OF CROWS. </b>How do I love this book? Let me count the ways: Character—so
intricate—all interwoven with their own secrets and pasts. <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Storyline? Tense, suspenseful—unpredictable.
All of this pulled together with deft, vivid prose. SWOON!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>8</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">. <b>Ruta
Sepetys: SALT TO THE SEA </b>Strictly historical, it’s really not that
different in structure from SIX of CROWS in that it unfolds in four POVS and
follows the character’s converging story lines. Very human, very dark—Gorgeous
prose you can eat with a spoon. It hardly gets better than this.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">9. <b>ILLUMINAE, by
Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff. </b>I’m not always a big reader of sci-fi, but I
am a huge Star Wars and Star Trek fan, so any YA that has all of the above
features and is set in space or the future works for me. This book was so
original and amazing. I actually listened to the audio book which was performed
like an old fashioned radio play. Incredible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Other authors who
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<b>Anne Rice: INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE; Stephen King: THE
STAND, STAND BY ME; Robert Heinlein: Stranger in a Strange Land; Marie Lu:
Young Elites; Victoria Schwab: Vicious, A Darker Shade of Magic; John Green:
Looking for Alaska.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In summation: I am
looking for unique and original YA with strong voice, lyrical prose, finely
wrought characters with depth, mystery, intrigue. If your manuscript have those
ingredients then I WANT YOU:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Lisa
Amowitz is an award winning author of three fantasy/thrillers for young adults,
UNTIL BETH [Spencer Hill Press, 2015], VISION [Spencer Hill Press, 2014], and
BREAKING GLASS [Spencer Hill Press, 2013].<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;">She
is also a cover designer and Professor of Graphic Design at Bronx
Community College. </span><span style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://www.bcc.cuny.edu/">www.bcc.cuny.edu</a></span><span style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "avenir book"; font-size: 11.0pt;">She
is represented by Shannon Hassan of<br />Marsal-Lyon Literary Agency <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I can't believe it's been three years since my first book, BREAKING GLASS released in 2013. Since then I've published two more, (VISION, 2014 and UNTIL BETH, 2015), as well as the e-novella FRACTURED which brings the main characters from Jeremy, from BREAKING GLASS and Bobby, from VISION together for a creepy, tense weekend in New York City.<br />
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Though my three novels are the first books in three different series, somehow, BREAKING GLASS and VISION have merged into one. I guess it's because Jeremy Glass is possibly my favorite mc and I just love Bobby Pendell as his hapless foil.<br />
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A lot of people who have enjoyed my books have asked me when the next books in the series are releasing, so, though there's no set dates, I'm going to admit that I have written a good part of the sequel to BREAKING GLASS, and it will pick up where the novella FRACTURED leaves off. I have every intention of completing the LIFE AND BETH trilogy as well. I'm just following where the muse leads!<br />
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To celebrate BREAKING GLASS's third birthday, Spencer Hill Press is offering all four of my books for 99 cents each on Amazon Kindle!<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00725012086692924891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2190268181568330958.post-64253500963549014652016-04-04T21:01:00.000-04:002016-04-04T21:04:57.882-04:00Camp NanoWrimo Triage Center--a reblogged guest post by my favorite writing guru, Angela Ackerman<i><b>Hey folks! If you follow my Twitter feed, you'll know that I am obsessed with Angela Ackerman, the genius behind The Emotion Thesaurus and a new website called One Stop for Writers. (find links below in Angela's bio).</b></i><br />
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<i><b>Angela has been gracious to allow me to repost one of her favorite NanoWrimo advice posts. She is my writing savior. *lays wreath of gratitude at her feet.*</b></i><br />
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<i><b>Angela's advice is the special sauce that helped me through Nano last November --and...drumroll--that book has made it through two drafts and is ready to send to my agent for its next read through.</b></i><br />
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<i><b>Oh, and one more thing--I am an official #WNDB Camp Nano camp counselor! I'll be doing a Tweet chat at #WNDBNano tomorrow at 4PM with the other counselors. You'll be getting my care packages during Week 4..and now...</b></i><br />
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<i><b>Take from there, Angela!</b></i><br />
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There you are, happily pounding out words, the click and rattle of
the keyboard creating a musical symphony in your writing space. Maybe
you're humming along, caught up in the frenzy of creation that oozes out
every pore. When the scene finishes, you stop, roll your shoulders, sip
at coffee gone cold, but who cares son, because cold coffee means
VICTORY in a writer's world.<br />
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A neck crack and a handful of nourishing Skittles later, you poise your fingers over the keyboard, ready to begin again.<br />
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<b>Only...nothing comes.</b><br />
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You stare at the blinking cursor, then your fingers. Why aren't they moving, directing fictional lives, creating worlds?<br />
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<i>Come on,</i> you urge. <i>Get to work</i>. They remain still, splayed out in knobby hooks of rigor mortis.<br />
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A
familiar feeling curls through your belly, sliding around in a slow
dance before fanning through your chest and netting it tight. It is an
emotion you dare not name. But deep down, <i>you know</i>.<br />
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It's happening, the thing you prayed would not come to pass this November:<span data-mce-style="color: #000080;" style="color: navy;"> a visit from the NaNoWriMo boogeyman, <b>The Big Blank.</b></span><br />
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<b>The big blank, the block, the curtain that draws across your story vision</b>.
It happens, and it can happen to you. Remain calm. Breathe. This is the
triage center, a place for you to come when your writing stalls and you
need some help to get moving again.<br />
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<span data-mce-style="color: #4f0c0c;" style="color: #4f0c0c;">Choose your blank & amp; click the link. Get the help you need and then grab your keyboard and write.</span></h2>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000080;" style="color: navy;">CHARACTER BLANKS</span><span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"> </span></h3>
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<b><span data-mce-style="color: #000080;" style="color: navy;">Introduce a Secret</span></b><br />
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Let's face it, sometimes our characters seem a bit <i>blah</i> on the page. It might be your hero, the sidekick or even the villain. And while I'd normally suggest you <a data-mce-href="http://writersinthestormblog.com/2014/09/nanowrimo-prep-brainstorming-the-hero-before-you-start-writing/" href="http://writersinthestormblog.com/2014/09/nanowrimo-prep-brainstorming-the-hero-before-you-start-writing/">dig deeper into your character to develop them more</a>, mid-novel during NaNoWriMo, a person can't always re-plan a character. <b>So,</b> <b>try giving your character a secret</b>. Not something lame-ass, but a <a data-mce-href="http://writersinthestormblog.com/2015/06/what-type-of-secret-does-your-character-keep/" href="http://writersinthestormblog.com/2015/06/what-type-of-secret-does-your-character-keep/">secret with depth, birthing from a place of Guilt, Shame, Exploitation or Necessity</a>.<br />
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<b><span data-mce-style="color: #000080;" style="color: navy;">Give Him or Her An Unusual Skill or Talent</span></b><br />
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To make your character stand out on the page, <a data-mce-href="http://writershelpingwriters.net/2014/05/5-reasons-hero-needs-special-skill-talent/" href="http://writershelpingwriters.net/2014/05/5-reasons-hero-needs-special-skill-talent/">focus on how to make him unique</a>. Is there a Talent or Skill that adds zing and factors into the plot? Here's a <a data-mce-href="http://writershelpingwriters.net/talent-skills-thesaurus-entries/" href="http://writershelpingwriters.net/talent-skills-thesaurus-entries/">list of ideas</a> to get you started.<br />
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<b><span data-mce-style="color: #000080;" style="color: navy;">Make Him Worthy</span></b><br />
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Sometimes we need to work on the connection between a character and a reader, and <a data-mce-href="http://writershelpingwriters.net/2015/06/will-readers-find-your-protagonist-worthy/" href="http://writershelpingwriters.net/2015/06/will-readers-find-your-protagonist-worthy/">the area to explore to create empathy is WORTHINESS.</a> Giving him an undeserved misfortune isn't enough. It is <i>what a character does despite his hardship</i> that pulls readers in.<br />
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<b><span data-mce-style="color: #000080;" style="color: navy;">Focus on Motivation</span></b><br />
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Ran
out of steam, did you? It's okay, the middle of a story can be a tricky
place. You don't want to wrap things up too quickly, but at the same
time, not...much...seems to be...happening. When you get stuck and don't
know where to go next, <a data-mce-href="http://writershelpingwriters.net/2015/10/planning-a-novel-character-arc-in-a-nutshell/" href="http://writershelpingwriters.net/2015/10/planning-a-novel-character-arc-in-a-nutshell/">think MOTIVATION</a>.
Your hero should always be motivated to act, making decisions, choices,
weighing options. Always know what is motivating your character, and
you'll be able to put one foot in front of the other again.<br />
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<b><span data-mce-style="color: #000080;" style="color: navy;">Have Him Look In a Mirror</span></b><br />
<b><span data-mce-style="color: #000080;" style="color: navy;"> </span></b>If you're lost in the middle, make haste to the midpoint & mirror moment when your <a data-mce-href="http://writershelpingwriters.net/2014/06/story-midpoint-mirror-moment-using-heros-emotions-transform/" href="http://writershelpingwriters.net/2014/06/story-midpoint-mirror-moment-using-heros-emotions-transform/">hero looks within, has an emotional epiphany, and that leads to change</a> and purpose.<br />
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<b><span data-mce-style="color: #000080;" style="color: navy;">Seek Out an Expert</span></b><br />
James Scott Bell knows all about <a data-mce-href="http://writershelpingwriters.net/2014/03/james-scott-bell-write-middle-method/" href="http://writershelpingwriters.net/2014/03/james-scott-bell-write-middle-method/">writing the middle of a novel</a>, so much that he's written a <a data-mce-href="http://amzn.to/1M0eoxQ" href="http://amzn.to/1M0eoxQ" target="_blank">book about it</a>. A book, I might add, you should own (and all his others).<br />
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<b><span data-mce-style="color: #000080;" style="color: navy;">Throw a Curve Ball</span></b><br />
Tension
makes the world go round. If your characters are stalling on what to
do, it's time to amp things up and spread some pain. Follow <a data-mce-href="http://writershelpingwriters.net/2011/08/conflict-vs-tension/" href="http://writershelpingwriters.net/2011/08/conflict-vs-tension/" target="_blank">this one-two-three punch of tension</a>
and complicate matters, forcing your hero to adapt to succeed. Remember
though, when it comes to frustrating your characters, you need to make
sure <a data-mce-href="http://writershelpingwriters.net/2011/09/frustration-your-novels-best-friend/" href="http://writershelpingwriters.net/2011/09/frustration-your-novels-best-friend/" target="_blank">their reactions & ways of dealing with an upset</a> fit the character.<br />
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<b><span data-mce-style="color: #000080;" style="color: navy;">Introduce a Pressure Point</span></b><br />
If your plot is chugging like a car running on cheap gas, it might be <a data-mce-href="http://writersinthestormblog.com/2015/10/pressure-points-angela-ackerman/" href="http://writersinthestormblog.com/2015/10/pressure-points-angela-ackerman/" target="_blank">time to utilize a pressure point</a>. There's nothing like a temptation, a challenge, or an opportunity for redemption to push the story forward.<br />
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<b><span data-mce-style="color: #000080;" style="color: navy;">Poke His Wounds</span></b><br />
Emotional wounds are a big part of the story, so if the plot trail dries up, <a data-mce-href="http://writershelpingwriters.net/2015/10/planning-a-novel-character-arc-in-a-nutshell/" href="http://writershelpingwriters.net/2015/10/planning-a-novel-character-arc-in-a-nutshell/" target="_blank">return to Character Arc</a> and remember your Character is on a path of CHANGE. Understanding <a data-mce-href="http://writershelpingwriters.net/2015/07/why-is-your-characters-emotional-wound-so-important/" href="http://writershelpingwriters.net/2015/07/why-is-your-characters-emotional-wound-so-important/" target="_blank"> why his wound is important to the story</a> will help lay down some plot pieces for you to follow.<br />
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<b><span data-mce-style="color: #000080;" style="color: navy;">Raise the Stakes</span></b><br />
If
your conflict is flat-lining, it's time to raise the stakes. No, I'm
not talking about throwing more monsters at your hero for him to kill,
or a bigger, nastier bomb for him to diffuse. Instead, Friend-o, let's <a data-mce-href="http://seekerville.blogspot.ca/2015/10/personalizing-stakes-using-fear-and.html" href="http://seekerville.blogspot.ca/2015/10/personalizing-stakes-using-fear-and.html">personalize those stakes</a>.
Give your hero a compelling reason to ACT. How we do that is make sure
the character sees that if he doesn't, something even worse will happen,
like undeserved consequences falling in the lap of someone else.<br />
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<b><span data-mce-style="color: #000080;" style="color: navy;">Cross a Moral Line</span></b><br />
If your tension is about as hardcore as limp celery, it's time to bring about a belief crisis. <a data-mce-href="http://www.insecurewriterssupportgroup.com/2014/08/deepen-conflict-by-forcing-your-hero-to.html" href="http://www.insecurewriterssupportgroup.com/2014/08/deepen-conflict-by-forcing-your-hero-to.html">Force your hero to do the unthinkable and cross a moral line for the "greater good."</a>
When the lines between right and wrong grow fuzzy, everything gets
complicated in a hurry, which is terrific for juicing up your story.<br />
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<b><span data-mce-style="color: #000080;" style="color: navy;">Friction & Fireworks</span></b><br />
You
love your cast of characters, I get it. Pass around the flowers, have
everyone hold hands and let them get the job done TOGETHER. Very sweet.
The problem is, when everyone is playing nicey-nice, the story gets
boring fast. Add a healthy dose of tension by creating some <a data-mce-href="http://www.thecreativepenn.com/2014/01/04/clashing-personalities/" href="http://www.thecreativepenn.com/2014/01/04/clashing-personalities/">clashing personalities who will create story friction</a>.<br />
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<b><span data-mce-style="color: #000080;" style="color: navy;">Amplify Emotional Reactions</span></b><br />
Nothing
adds tension and conflict like a big ol' stupid mistake. Screw ups are a
story's bread and butter! So let's get your hero off his game <a data-mce-href="http://writershelpingwriters.net/emotion-amplifiers/" href="http://writershelpingwriters.net/emotion-amplifiers/">by amplifying his emotions,</a>
piling on the stress or pain, or even distracting him with primal pull
of attraction, hunger or thirst.<br />
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You pick the amplifier, apply it, and
watch the emotional overreactions lead to bad judgement and rashness
that creates delicious story fallout. (Oh yeah--this ebook is <a href="http://writershelpingwriters.net/emotion-amplifiers/" target="_blank">free</a>, by
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Sometimes
the creative well empties and our brain turns to static. But it's
NaNoWriMo season, and nobody's got time for that. Pull out the big guns
and get going.<br />
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Today, I am hosting <span style="background-color: white;">Patty Blount</span> on my website for the YA Scavenger Hunt!</h3>
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<span style="color: magenta;"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "lato";">Patty spends her days writing facts and her nights writing contemporary romantic fiction. A coworker once said if Patty were a super-villain, she’d be called </span><span style="font-family: "lato";">The Quibbler</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "lato";">. Her costume would be covered in exclamation points. Fueled by a </span><span style="font-family: "lato";">serious </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "lato";">chocolate obsession, a love of </span><span style="font-family: "lato";">bad </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "lato";">science-fiction movies, and a weird attraction to exclamation points, Patty looks for ways to mix business with pleasure, mining her day job for ideas to use in her fiction.</span></i></b><br />
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<b><i>Though she’s passionate about happily-ever-afters, her first story wasn’t a romance at all. Penalty Killer, a whodunit, was written on a dare from her oldest son. Though unpublished, it was the subject of so many seventh-grade book reports that year, the English teacher requested a copy and later returned it, covered in red ink.</i></b></div>
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<b><i>Ripped from the headlines, Patty’s novel, Send, a YA story about a former cyber-bully learning to deal with the suicide he caused with a single thoughtless click, was conceived when her boss suggested she learn about social media. Send was released August, 2012 from Sourcebooks Fire.</i></b></div>
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<b><i>Patty is a master multi-tasker, squeezing in reading time whenever she can – in the gym, while waiting on long lines and even while cooking dinner.</i></b></div>
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<b><i>Patty is represented by Evan Gregory of The Ethan Ellenberg Agency. You can contact her at pattyblount3 at gmail dot com.</i></b></div>
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<em>Reece’s father hasn’t spoken to him since the car wreck that killed Reece’s brother. Desperate for forgiveness, Reece joins the Junior Cadet program at his dad’s firehouse. But the program is grueling, and Reece isn’t sure he can make it through. Then he meets Amanda.</em></div>
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<i>Hi! I'm Patty. *waves*</i><br />
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NOTHING LEFT TO BURN</b> is my fourth novel and one I had a lot of fun researching. I live in Long Island suburb. If you're not familiar with Long Island, most towns here are serviced almost ENTIRELY by volunteer fire departments.<br />
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Firefighters amaze me. Imagine running into life-threatening situations every day. I'm not sure I can... it's instinctual to protect ourselves, not put ourselves at risk. Yet firefighters do this every day. And Volunteer Firefighters do it for free. That is some serious dedication.<br />
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So...I was thinking up book ideas. All books need heroes and heroines. But I wanted to write a real hero and that's what I think firefighters are... real heroes. Could a teenager be a volunteer firefighter? I was shocked and happy to learn that YES, they can. In my area, they're called Junior Squad. Some towns called them Explorers.<br />
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Now, it's time for the fun part. I got to tour a few fire stations and speak to real volunteers.†I saw the dispatch electronics, heard the alarms and the announcements. Filling up those oxygen tanks turned out to be much more involved than I expected. And the bunker gear weighs a TON!<br />
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I started a Pinterest board to keep track of things. Here, you can see some pictures I saved.<br />
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The model for Reece Logan is actor Steven R. McQueen. He is almost exactly how I picture Reece to look. After I finished writing this story, I learned Steven R. McQueen is now part of the Chicago Fire cast, where he plays a 'probie' -- *grins* I love this!<br />
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Amanda is much harder to picture. I haven't found any actors yet who truly capture her the way Steven did for Reece. If you read NOTHING LEFT TO BURN, message me and tell me who YOU think could play Amanda! I'd love to know.<br />
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Reece's dad, John Logan, I imagine as a young Bruce Willis.<br />
Reece's best friend, Alex -- totally Jesse Eisenberg, right down to his diction<br />
Do you remember Hurley from Lost? I pictured him as a teenager and that's where Bear came from.<br />
Max is real smooth... kind of a Will Smith/Corbin Bleu combination.<br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Months have passed since Rune has heard a single whisper from her long-dead mother, the great witch of Bavaria. But the absence of one evil has only made room for another. </span><br style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">After rightfully inheriting her ancestral home, Pyrmont Castle, Rune settles into a quiet life taking care of two orphans left in the wake of the terrible witch hunt that claimed dozens of lives in the nearby village. As the days grow colder, the castle’s secrets beckon and Rune finds herself roaming where no one has set foot in a long time. In the bowels of the fortress is a locked room full of memories that hang like cobwebs—shelves stacked with jars, strange specimens, putrid liquids, and scrolls of spells. Rune is undeniably drawn to what she finds there, and she begins to dabble in the possibilities of magic, hoping to find a cure for the strangeness overwhelming the castle. </span><br style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As secrets unspool, the delicate thread of Rune’s world is threatened when she realizes the key may lie in the dark forest she once called home and the boy she thought she knew.</span></b></span></div>
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Distorted in the dimming light, the bone juts out from the snow at an odd,
twisted angle, its color resembling a pale animal hide, alabaster and cream now
grayed and foreboding in the dark. I edge closer, the light bouncing off of it,
accentuating the thin onion-like layers where the elements have chipped and
picked it clean.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Shadows are heavy and thick at my back. The stretch between the forest’s
gloom and the comfort of the kitchen, an impossible length, yet I kneel beside
the protruding appendage—curious, disgusted, cautious. I see why Niclaus had
been so captivated, for I, too, am suddenly intrigued. Settling the basket
beside me, I swipe at the snow, shifting it away from the bone to fully unearth
it. I am careful not to touch it, but continue to clear away, until shoots of
yellowed grass kiss my fingers. The length of the larger bone tapers to what
appears to be the slender slope of a wrist. I follow it with my eye, and then,
I pull back. Breathless and cold, I let my body grow numb as I stare at the
ground. It is hauntingly beautiful, yet terrifying, and I take all of it in.
The snow-covered bone. The color of what truly lies beneath our skin. The
broken limb that elongates into the remains of a hand. With upmost care I pull
one of Niclaus’s finds from the basket and hold it against the skeletal stump,
matching the delicate finger to the eroded joint. It is a perfect fit. So
slight are the digits. So simple are the knuckles. With rapt, studious
attention, I compare it to my own hand, and then, I remember what I am holding
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<a href="http://www.dropshots.com/bhwnurse/albums/496175/2015-09-25/20:45:04" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="12047339_10204925037027853_275710381_n.jpg" src="http://media4000.dropshots.com/photos/1278290/20150925/204504.jpg" height="260" width="320" /></a><span style="color: #626262; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 13px;">Jennifer Murgia writes moody fiction for teens—from paranormal fantasy (ANGEL STAR, LEMNISCATE, THE BLISS), to contemporary gut-punchers (BETWEEN THESE LINES). Her latest, FOREST OF WHISPERS, a 17th century historical mystery (about witches!) was a School Library Journal Fall 2014 HOT TITLE, and a 2014 Moonbeam Children’s Literature Award Winner. The sequel, CASTLE OF SIGHS, releases October 27, 2015 from Spencer Hill Press. She is the co-founder and coordinator of YA FEST and currently resides in Pennsylvania.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Months have passed since Rune has heard a single whisper from her long-dead mother, the great witch of Bavaria. But the absence of one evil has only made room for another. </span><br style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">After rightfully inheriting her ancestral home, Pyrmont Castle, Rune settles into a quiet life taking care of two orphans left in the wake of the terrible witch hunt that claimed dozens of lives in the nearby village. As the days grow colder, the castle’s secrets beckon and Rune finds herself roaming where no one has set foot in a long time. In the bowels of the fortress is a locked room full of memories that hang like cobwebs—shelves stacked with jars, strange specimens, putrid liquids, and scrolls of spells. Rune is undeniably drawn to what she finds there, and she begins to dabble in the possibilities of magic, hoping to find a cure for the strangeness overwhelming the castle. </span><br style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As secrets unspool, the delicate thread of Rune’s world is threatened when she realizes the key may lie in the dark forest she once called home and the boy she thought she knew.</span></b></span></div>
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“He is magnificent.” She whispers when we
have finished. </div>
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The child lies still upon the table. A
composite of hair and skin and bones from the village boy—his heart now beats
with magick. In time, the delicate stitches will heal and no one will question
how, or why.</div>
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It was almost too much to bear the moment
we began, and so I created a tonic of herbs and incense to fill the room while
we worked. The woman’s nerves have now settled, and by the look upon her face
she seems pleased with my work. </div>
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“Utterly magnificent,” she repeats, her
finger tracing the delicate flesh of his arm, his collarbone, his jaw. She
holds a lock of his hair between her finger and thumb, then reaches for her
own, inches shorter in a place at the nape of her neck. “He looks just like my son.”</div>
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“He <i>is</i>
your son,” I confirm. </div>
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She nods, her eyes still disbelieving yet
accepting, all at once.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
The boy yawns then wakes, as if he’d been
asleep this whole time. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
“Will he know me?”</div>
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“Your blood is his now.”</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
She approaches the child with caution and
the moment he sees her, he smiles and holds his arms out to her. Tears of joy
spill down her cheeks.</div>
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My heart clenches, for it too misses the
love of a child.</div>
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“But . . .”</div>
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“You will tell your husband that you found
the babe in the forest, crying and alone.” I hand her a small, muslin pouch.
“Tonight, you will stir these herbs into his ale, and the rest into your tea.
By dawn, it will be as if the boy has been born to you all along.”</div>
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I wait patiently for her to nod and agree
with what must be done. “Have you a name for the boy?”</div>
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<a href="http://www.dropshots.com/bhwnurse/albums/496175/2015-09-25/20:45:04" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="12047339_10204925037027853_275710381_n.jpg" src="http://media4000.dropshots.com/photos/1278290/20150925/204504.jpg" height="260" width="320" /></a><span style="color: #626262; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 13px;">Jennifer Murgia writes moody fiction for teens—from paranormal fantasy (ANGEL STAR, LEMNISCATE, THE BLISS), to contemporary gut-punchers (BETWEEN THESE LINES). Her latest, FOREST OF WHISPERS, a 17th century historical mystery (about witches!) was a School Library Journal Fall 2014 HOT TITLE, and a 2014 Moonbeam Children’s Literature Award Winner. The sequel, CASTLE OF SIGHS, releases October 27, 2015 from Spencer Hill Press. She is the co-founder and coordinator of YA FEST and currently resides in Pennsylvania.</span><br />
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To give you a little taste of my style, I'm going to share my REVISION RECIPE (this segment originally appeared as part of a larger interview posted on the <a href="http://istyriabookblog.com/bieke-rachel-interview-lisa-amowitz/" target="_blank">Istyria Book Blog</a> by the wonderful Bieke and Rachel.<br />
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A RECIPE FOR REVISION</h3>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1049bc; font-family: "Adobe Garamond Pro"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><i>Writing a first draft is hard and takes a lot of time, but the
actual hard work comes after that. How do you go about revising and editing
that first draft?</i><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Adobe Garamond Pro"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Ah—I think I hinted at the hair-pulling aspect, but let me try to
break this down into something useful for aspiring authors. I’m going to write
it out like a mad-cap recipe for things you need to put on your checklist<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Adobe Garamond Pro"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><b>Ingredients:</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Adobe Garamond Pro"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">5 cups of
character</span></i><span style="font-family: "Adobe Garamond Pro"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">. Know your main character. Know his/her background, idiosyncrasies,
loves, obsessions, fears. Know what they need to learn/find on their journey.
Know this FIRST before you do anything else.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Adobe Garamond Pro"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><b>1 cup of
setting.</b> </span></i><span style="font-family: "Adobe Garamond Pro"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Where and when are they? Contemporary? Future? Past? Research,
research, research. Is this fleshed out? Is it pertinent to the story? Create a
sense of place and atmosphere.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Adobe Garamond Pro"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><b>A gallon
of conflict.</b> </span></i><span style="font-family: "Adobe Garamond Pro"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Character + conflict =plot. Yeah—not conflict, no
story.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Adobe Garamond Pro"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Take these ingredients and mix them in a bowl. Add the following
advice that comes largely from a great book I read called Hooked, by Les
Edgerton.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Adobe Garamond Pro"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><b>Stir in</b></span></i><span style="font-family: "Adobe Garamond Pro"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> Make
your you have a first sentence that grabs your reader immediately, tells them
something about your character, and sets up what’s about to happen. Edgerton
calls it the “surface problem”. I call it the catalyst. It’s the event that
sets the story in motion. Your first chapter should create a situation that
tells us something about our protagonist and puts events in play. It does not
have to be the actual situation. That’s why Edgerton calls it the surface
problem. It then leads the protagonist to the “story level problem—the issue
they must solve to get to the conclusion of the book.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Adobe Garamond Pro"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><b>Mix in</b></span></i><span style="font-family: "Adobe Garamond Pro"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> action
in every chapter. Something has to happen. You cannot just describe things and
let your reader fall asleep…because they won’t fall asleep—they will throw your
book across the room or delete it from their ereaders. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Adobe Garamond Pro"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><b>Chop</b> </span></i><span style="font-family: "Adobe Garamond Pro"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">any
words, scenes, dialogue, description that does not move the story forward. ALL
DIALOGUE and settings must add to your narrative. Use description as part of
action.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Adobe Garamond Pro"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><b>Add a
pinch</b></span></i><span style="font-family: "Adobe Garamond Pro"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><b> </b>of quirky details that bring your story and characters to life but
don’t weigh down the narrative.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Adobe Garamond Pro"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><b>Cook on
high heat</b>—</span></i><span style="font-family: "Adobe Garamond Pro"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">keep going! Don’t stop!<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Adobe Garamond Pro"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><b>Allow to
cool</b></span></i><span style="font-family: "Adobe Garamond Pro"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> Always be ready to “kill your darlings.” That’s advice from Stephen
King from On Writing. That means be merciless and cut whole chapters,
sentences, even characters that bog your narrative down.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Adobe Garamond Pro"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Writing Books I recommend:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Adobe Garamond Pro"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Stephen
King’s; On Writing, Anne Lamotte’s; Bird by Bird, Les Edgerton; Hooked. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;">Some secrets cannot be kept—in life or in death. </span><br style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;">Months have passed since Rune has heard a single whisper from her long-dead mother, the great witch of Bavaria. But the absence of one evil has only made room for another. </span><br style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;">After rightfully inheriting her ancestral home, Pyrmont Castle, Rune settles into a quiet life taking care of two orphans left in the wake of the terrible witch hunt that claimed dozens of lives in the nearby village. As the days grow colder, the castle’s secrets beckon and Rune finds herself roaming where no one has set foot in a long time. In the bowels of the fortress is a locked room full of memories that hang like cobwebs—shelves stacked with jars, strange specimens, putrid liquids, and scrolls of spells. Rune is undeniably drawn to what she finds there, and she begins to dabble in the possibilities of magic, hoping to find a cure for the strangeness overwhelming the castle. </span><br style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;">As secrets unspool, the delicate thread of Rune’s world is threatened when she realizes the key may lie in the dark forest she once called home and the boy she thought she knew.</span></span><br />
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In spy fiction, cool international locales are the name of the game and each city has its own unique vibe, from the neon lights and pulsing throngs of people in Tokyo, to the oppressive drear of Moscow in winter, to the blossoming of spring in D.C. each May. After reading a spy novel I always feel like I’ve been traveling the world.<br />
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<b>9. The Bad Guys</b><br />
They’re so fun and spy fiction has some of the best bad guys around.<br />
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<b>8. The Disguises</b><br />
I love it when actors can successfully play multiple characters in a movie or show, like Val Kilmer in The Saint and more recently Tatiana Maslany in Orphan Black. It’s equally as cool when the characters on a page morph into someone new as they go undercover.<br />
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<b> 7. Twists & Turns</b><br />
When I read a book, I don’t like to know what’s going to happen when I turn the page and spy fiction is great in that regard.<br />
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<b>6. The Action</b><br />
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There’s never a dull moment in a good spy book. <br />
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<b>5. The Tech</b><br />
Gadgets galore!<br />
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<b>4. The Secrets</b><br />
Characters with secrets make for a good story. Make those characters spies where revealing their secrets could cost them their lives, and the tension bumps up a notch.<br />
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<b>3. The Spycraft</b><br />
The ‘how to’ of spying is inherently interesting. What are the techniques used to develop an asset? How do you avoid a tail? Use a dead drop? The list goes on!<br />
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<b>2. The Dynamic Relationships</b><br />
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Life or death stakes, characters with secrets, the fates of nations in the balance…all make for some really interesting interpersonal dynamics. Who can you trust, when everyone has secrets and might be lying to you? <br />
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<b>1. The SPY VIBE</b><br />
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Everything on this list from the dynamic relationships, to the tech, to the settings, all merge to create what I like to think of as the spy vibe. It’s a vibe distinct to spy novels. It’s a pulsing tension…a web of intrigue…a pull that keeps you reading…keeps you guessing.<br />
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Alexandra Gastone has a simple plan: graduate high school, get into Princeton, work for the CIA, and serve her great nation.<br />
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She was told the plan back when her name was Milena Rokva, back before the real Alexandra and her family were killed in a car crash.<br />
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Milena was trained to be a sleeper agent by Perun, a clandestine organization from her true homeland of Olissa. There, Milena learned everything she needed to infiltrate the life of CIA analyst Albert Gastone, Alexandra’s grandfather, and the ranks of America’s top intelligence agency.<br />
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For seven years, “Alexandra” has been on standby and life’s been good. Grandpa Albert loves her, and her strategically chosen boyfriend, Grant, is amazing.<br />
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But things are about to change. Perun no longer needs her at the CIA in five years’ time. They need her active now.<br />
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Between her cover as a high school girl—juggling a homecoming dance, history reports, and an increasingly suspicious boyfriend—and her mission in this high-stakes spy game, the boundaries of her two lives are beginning to blur.<br />
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Will she stay true to the country she barely remembers, or has her loyalty shattered along with her identity?<br />
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<script src="//widget-prime.rafflecopter.com/launch.js"></script>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00725012086692924891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2190268181568330958.post-56568592545427247352015-07-21T12:11:00.002-04:002015-07-21T12:11:15.113-04:00Researching the Book: Landscapes that Inspired UNTAMED by Madeline DyerGreetings Blogosphere! It's been nearly a month, but today I'm interrupting my usually scheduled radio silence to bring you something special! A guest post from the extremely talented young UK author, Madeline Dyer. I'm particularly excited because Madeline is going to tell us how she researches her setting, incorporating the familiar (the amazing Dartmoor) with the not so familiar.<br />
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<span lang="EN-GB">Before I started writing UNTAMED, I had
rather specific ideas for the landscapes in mind. I knew the world needed to be
harsh and ‘unfamiliar’, and that the difficult landscapes would heighten the
survival focus of the story. But I wanted the landscapes to feel new to me too,
to provide me with a challenge. I wanted the setting to be exciting, and have
an ‘exotic’ element which would interact with the fantasy side to the book.
But, at the same time, I wanted the landscapes to be believable and realistic.
And this meant a lot of research. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">So, I started off with some general Google
searches, looking for landscapes that felt ‘right’ or partly suitable—anything
that really started to inspire me. (Unfortunately, I only discovered Pinterest
a month before UNTAMED released… oops). I made hundreds of notes, poured
through thousands of images of real-life places, noting down things that I
liked from one, and other things from another. A few years ago, I visited Cobo
Bay, in Guernsey, and found it really inspiring. It felt almost magical, with
an unseen supernatural presence. Although no such Cobo Bay made it into
UNTAMED, I drew on the atmosphere a lot. And, I believe, this is where my idea
to include a paranormal element in UNTAMED came from, through the presence of
somewhat dangerous, but hard to see, spirits of the land. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: small; text-align: start;">Figure </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: small; text-align: start;">1</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: small; text-align: start;"> Cobo Bay, Guernsey</span></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB">UNTAMED charts the main characters’ journey
through landscapes that change, setting that are unpredictable and tests their
survival skills. I already knew that I wanted the start and end landscapes to
be vastly different from each other, to mark not only the distance travelled,
but the characters’ emotional journeys—and I had a rough idea of which two
landscapes these could be. But I needed to know how much distance there should realistically
be in between the two climates, and how long it would take for characters to
cross from one to another using different transport, and how one landscape
would gradually merge into the other. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">So, I spent a while researching countries
that had two vastly different climates, making loads of notes, and bookmarking
hundreds of images. But I couldn’t find any one country that fitted this rather
strict requirement of having the two particular landscapes that I wanted for
the beginning and end, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">and</i>
immediately inspired in me the same ambience for spirits and a paranormal
element, that Cobo Bay did —or at least not from Google images. But the more I
searched, the more I did find little parts of different places that were
perfect if I slotted them together across my landscape spectrum (as I called
it). And it wasn’t long before my Untamed landscape was an amalgamation of a
variety of real life landscapes, and my imagination. And I was so excited. I
had the perfect world mapped out for the plot to take place—but, so to speak, I
hadn’t filled the map in. It was just an outline, as I hadn’t experienced all
the climates myself. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">If you’re read UNTAMED, you’ll know it
starts in the desert, before the characters journey through a variety of
landscapes, featuring rock formations, jungles, moorland and lakes. Living on
the edge of Dartmoor, UK, I was most confident writing the scenes where the
landscape was mainly moorland, covered in rock formations and tors. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I knew Dartmoor, but the other landscapes…
well, I had no idea. But I felt so inspired by the images I had seen, that I
knew I had to include them. And for that, I had to rely on research.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I started by researching habitable deserts,
learning about the different types of sand, the climate, that sort of stuff.
Yet for me the landscapes were more than just setting. The landscapes were the
homes of the characters, and were tied intrinsically to the system of spiritual
beings that I would create. To an extent, the landscapes controlled the
characters and their actions, and the characters were fighting back, trying to
gain the upper hand. Because UNTAMED is essentially a story about survival in
near-impossible circumstances, I had to make everything difficult. By picking
climates that made even the small tasks difficult for my characters, I learnt a
lot about how to survive in extreme circumstances. And I learnt some
fascinating stuff. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">But it soon became clear to me that because
I hadn’t personally experienced these climates, this was going to be a problem.
There was only so much I could learn from the Internet, and I desperately
wanted my writing to be authentic. With no way to physically visit a desert, I
had to come up with ways around this. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I drew on previous holidays I’d been on—one
to the Mallorcan mountains in particular, and I focussed on the dry climate, the
food, the weather patterns, the buildings, the architecture. I loved how the
mountains seemed to rise around the houses, as if protecting the villages. And
the dry, dusty ground definitely made its way into the opening chapters of
UNTAMED. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">But the most valuable research I did was
through visiting two large biomes in Cornwall, UK. Each biome has a completely
different atmosphere to UK weather, and houses several different climates. I
was able to take a walk through a Mediterranean landscape, South African
landscape, a Californian landscape, and a tropical rainforest—each biome
section complete with birds and other wildlife too! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Okay, so these weren’t exactly deserts, but
they helped me immensely—and tropical rainforests do play a part toward the end
of UNTAMED, as the characters are forced to keep moving through changing
landscapes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">When I was at the biomes I really got a
feel for these new landscapes. I spent hours in each one, just listening and
getting a feel for the place. They felt exciting. And they were
inspiring—exactly what I wanted! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">In one, the heat was dry and the air felt
‘thinner’; in another , the air was heavy, humid and muggy. I could hear the
thick buzzing of insects, see the birds in the canopies, touch the old twisted
trunks of olive trees. There was also a mine of information about the plants in
the biomes too. I learnt which plants needed to have waxy leaves to survive,
how they stored water for so long if they were in the drier landscapes, and
which ones people used for food or building materials. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">And, not only that, but the biomes also had
traditional houses, African totem poles and shamanic wall paintings too.
Sculptures were everywhere. Agricultural machinery was also present, and it
felt so real. Just walking around these biomes helped me with the sensory
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<span lang="EN-GB">I made pages and pages of notes—and later,
I learnt that you could go inside the biomes on Google Street View too! But
perhaps the most important thing that these biomes taught me was how people
survive in these climates, what their routines are, and how different their
culture is from ours. And once I knew this, my characters really came to life. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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my own culture in this book. The setting for UNTAMED really is an amalgamation
of so many things—and that’s what made it fascinating to me. There are the
‘exotic’ landscapes, and then there are more western belief systems
incorporated in, and a whole bunch of other stuff, including the presence of
spirits. I wanted this book to blend a lot of things together in a somewhat
ambiguous way. After all, the Untamed world is a turbulent, ever-changing
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #434343; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Madeline Dyer is the author
of <i>Untamed</i>, a YA dystopian fantasy novel from Prizm Books (May 2015).
She is currently working on book two in the Untamed Series, as well as a new
dystopian trilogy for adults. Aside from writing, Madeline enjoys reading,
painting, and inline skating. </span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Thank you so much for having me here today on Salon Witz! I’m
a writer of Young Adult paranormal romance and adult historical paranormal
romance. My second YA book, BROKEN, released on April 1st. The heroine in this
book is very special to me because we share a common problem. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Taylin Banes was cursed to live over and over without being
able to love. She has died ten horrible deaths. (Okay, that’s not the issue <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I’ve</i> dealt with, thank goodness!) But
now that the curse is broken, Taylin has a new problem. She’s afraid of dying
again, dying painfully and permanently this time, leaving behind the people she
is now able to love. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">And this is where Taylin and I are similar. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I am an ovarian cancer survivor. This past April 5<sup>th</sup>
was the four year anniversary of the morning I woke up in a hospital bed after
major surgery and was told “it is cancer.” My life would never be the same.
Surgery, 5 months of intensive chemo, 10 more months of a clinical trial chemo,
and 6 months of recovery has killed off all those vicious, stealthy cancer
cells (triumphant fist pumping!). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Since ovarian cancer has an ugly tendency of coming back
with lethal force, I’m checked every three to six months. Remission is bitter
sweet. Sweet because the cancer is gone. Bitter because the thought of it returning
is terrifying. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Chemo and I don’t mix well. Besides the hair loss (Everywhere!
Where do those nose hairs go?), I had nerve damage throughout my body (from my
teeth to my toes), sores in my mouth, toenails that turned brown and could be
pulled in and out of their sockets, ulcers throughout my digestive track and
bleeding end to end. The thought of going through that again, added to the
thought of dying early, leaving my three kids and wonderful husband – well the
fear can grab me by the throat. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">When I started writing BROKEN I thought the theme would be
“you can’t fear dying or you can’t really live.” It sounds like a great truth
to help Taylin (and me) discover and implement. But as I approached writing the
middle of the book I slowed down and eventually stopped. I just couldn’t figure
out how Taylin could learn how not to fear death when she’d experienced such
pain and fear. I spent days wracking my brain and dredging my creative well for
something that could teach her not to fear. I came up empty. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">When I met with my therapist (ah therapy, something I
recommend for everyone) I mentioned how I was stuck in my book. She’s a novice
writer and has great insight. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“How can I make my heroine not fear dying?” I asked. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">She tilted her head. “Why should she not fear dying? Fearing
death is a very human thing. If she didn’t fear dying at all, she wouldn’t be
human.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I blinked. I stared. I inhaled. “If you fear death you can’t
really live.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I don’t know anyone who doesn’t fear dying, at least
somewhat, and a lot of people live wonderful, happy lives. They just don’t
dwell on death.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Holy Crow! Taylin didn’t have to completely lose her fear,
volunteering for the bomb squad or walking in dark alleys by herself at night.
She just needed to learn not to allow fear to stand in the way of living. If we
dwell on dying, what we would leave behind or the pain it could entail, we will
miss the whole beautiful parade going by before us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Both Taylin and I still need to work on this. Every time I
have a CT scan or bloodwork drawn fear becomes large and darkens my world. But
for the most part I’ve learned to acknowledge the fear and look the other way
toward the beauty of living and the possibilities of each day. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I’m very lucky to have an avenue to explore my inner
craziness. I wrote a blog all through my treatments about survival. It kept me
sane. The posts are on my web site. </span><a href="http://www.heathermccollum.com/ovarian-cancer/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">http://www.heathermccollum.com/ovarian-cancer/</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> I plan
to one day organize them into a survival book. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It is amazing how much of ourselves come out in our writing:
lessons we wish to learn, people we wish to be, love we hope to find. We can
learn so much about ourselves writing and we can absorb important lessons
reading. I’m a firm believer that if you read enough happy endings, you will
bring one your way. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Have you learned something from reading a favorite book or
writing a character that resonates with your heart?</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Taylin Banes’ familiar
world shatters when the cruel curse that kept her unable to love is broken. Now
she’s bombarded by all the human emotions she’d been forbidden over eleven
lifetimes. The nightmares of her deaths crack through her tough exterior,
reminding her that this last life is fragile, and fear becomes a new type of
torture. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Zach Buchanan comes from
a long line of Guardians and has trained with the Magic Alliance his whole life.
With the shake-up in the organization over the recent end of Lamont’s curse,
he’s been reassigned. He is to help The Cursed learn basic protection skills.
But can Zach set aside his hatred for the infamous Taylin Banes who targeted
his family two generations ago?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As Taylin and Zach clash, a sinister force rises
up, targeting members of the Magic Alliance and Taylin. With her last life on
the line, Zach turns from instructor to protector as the frenetic conflict
sparking between them transforms into a fierce attraction. Together they must
stop the malevolence threatening those with innate magic before darkness
consumes them all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Taylin, you shouldn’t walk back there in the
dark.” He’s following me. I continue to head through the trees that surround
the center on three sides, leading back toward the abandoned part of the
institute. The stillness of the trees makes them look like they’re watching. My
stomach tightens, but I keep moving, anger overriding the sheer terror that
should be turning me back. I will not admit that Zach’s presence makes the
night less menacing. I will not.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Taylin,” he calls again. “We haven’t figured
out who locked us in or who attacked Zoe. It isn’t safe for you to be roaming
around out here.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“If you’d stop following me, I’d stop roaming,”
I throw back. One glance shows he’s closing in even though I can’t hear him. I
manage to beat him to the brick building and hurry around the corner. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“I can’t,” he says, and I whirl around. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“You can’t stop following me?” I stare at his
dark face in the shadows. “Is it still your job to track me, hunt me down?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“If it was, you’d never know.” He lays heavy
hands on my shoulders. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Until you killed me. Or would you have stabbed
me in my sleep so I wouldn’t know who to damn with my last breath?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">His hands drop, releasing me. “It was never my
job to kill you,” he says softly. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“No, that was Patricia Ashe’s job,” I remind
him. “But no one tried to stop her until she wanted to cut open the precious Siren,
Jule.” Why am I talking about this? I haven’t spoken about the incident that
broke the curse to anyone. Yet here I am out in the dark, vomiting it up all
over Zach, a Hunter. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Zach raises his hands and I take a step
backward. “She was nuts, Taylin. Alba didn’t figure out her plans until the
very end. We were supposed to just watch you three.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“And that’s why you have a tat of the blade that
was supposed to kill us. Not a set of binoculars to watch us, but a triblade to
slaughter us like the Hunters two hundred years ago.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">He runs a hand through his hair, looking every
bit the warrior in his costume, his face hard and sliced by splashes of
moonlight. “It’s an old symbol, Taylin. That’s all. It means nothing now,
especially since the curse is broken.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Stupid tears press against my eyes so I walk farther
behind the old psych hospital. He follows and I breathe relief that I’m not
alone out here in the dark. If he’d just leave, I could leave.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Those of us who were trained as Hunters have
been reassigned. The job is obsolete.” He grabs my arm, forcing me around. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">My jaw aches. “I’m sure you’re not the only Hunter
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“I was in that sauna with you,” he says.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Maybe you just got in the way.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Or maybe <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">you</i>
did. What if I’m the target? Someone attacked my sister.” He drops my wrist.
“Taylin,” he says and stares hard at me. “I get it.” He looks sincere, but his
expression borders on pity. I almost pop him in the nose, but I want to hear
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“You get it?” I ask.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Yeah. You’ve lived life after life knowing
you’d be born again. This is the first time you’ve had to face mortality. When
you die now, you die for good. That change would freak anyone out.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I stare at him, unmoving, but the tension in my
chest presses hard. He takes a step closer, his voice low. “Everyone is afraid
of dying, Taylin. I know what that’s like. It’s the unknown.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“So,” I start just as low, drawing out the word.
“You’ve got me figured out.” My smile is anything but warm. I nod. “So, Zach
Buchanan, you know what it’s like to have a blade jammed into your middle,
slicing open your intestines like they are sausages. You know how it feels to
refuse chemo because no matter what docs give you, it won’t work and you’ll
waste away. You know the burn in your lungs as you breathe in water until the
world around you fades away.” I shake my head but keep my eyes on him. “Oh, how
about dying of scarlet fever, alone, because no one wants to risk caring for
you? And my all-time favorite, being burned alive.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Shit, Taylin,” he murmurs. “You’ve been burned
alive?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I blink and push his pity behind my hard eyes.
“Luke shot me in the forehead with a crossbow before the flames reached me.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00725012086692924891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2190268181568330958.post-1520237816142267952015-06-08T16:22:00.001-04:002015-06-08T16:22:36.167-04:00Fractured releases tomorrow--the further adventures of Jeremy and Bobby.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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FRACTURED is out tomorrow! If you liked BREAKING GLASS and VISION, you're really going to want to follow the further adventures of Jeremy and Bobby.. PLUS there is a giveaway of a $25 gift certificate and ebooks of both BREAKING GLASS and VISION (in case you have not read them)<br />
<a href="http://www.lisaamowitz.com/">http://www.lisaamowitz.com/</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Bobby's a hick who sees visions. Jeremy's a smartass who sees dead people. Together, they have a weekend to stop a murderer...if they don't kill each other first. Sparks fly when the worlds of Lisa Amowitz’s BREAKING GLASS and VISION collide.</span><br />
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/og99rqf">http://tinyurl.com/og99rqf</a><br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00725012086692924891noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2190268181568330958.post-6073092160727280192015-05-22T23:28:00.001-04:002015-05-22T23:28:22.913-04:00For Once I'm Not Late to the Game (Kind of) Guest Post by Fantasy Angel<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 20pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20pt;">Hello everyone! My name is Fantasy Angel (it's my blogger name,
not real name) and I come from</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20pt;"> </span><a href="https://avdreader.wordpress.com/wp-admin/avdreader.wordpress.com" style="line-height: 20pt;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Avid Reader</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20pt;">, a blog on books, their
movies and writing in general. Now I met Lisa on an awesome chat called
#K8chat and there we were discussing guest posts and now here I am on
this awesome blog guest posting! (Thanks Lisa!) Now for the guest post. I
hope you enjoy.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So for once in my life I am not late to the game and that is
called the game of comics. Yes, it isn't really a game but hey, you get what I
mean. Anyway, yes, comics have been around for forever and so I'm wrong in that
aspect but I’m right with the specific comic which is the Ms. Marvel comic with
Kamala Khan by writers/illustrators Adrian Alphona, G. Willow
Wilson, Jamie McKelvie and Sara Pichelli. Now I had heard of a rumor
about a year ago that there was going to be a teenage, Muslim girl who was
going to be a superhero and I thought "that is pretty cool but it probably
won't happen. Hopefully it will, but probably not." Then in November or
December of this past year I saw that they actually were doing it and it was
coming out really soon and I knew I had to get it because I'd been thinking of
reading comics on some of my fav Marvel superheroes but there was just so many
to read from and I had no idea where to start. With this Ms. Marvel though, it
was the first one so I immediately put it on hold in my library so I could try
to read it. Now it was a month and a half ago maybe when I finally got it and I
read it like 10 minutes. I had to read it in one sitting and afterwards I knew
this series was going to be awesome. Why, you ask? Well...:</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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great! There was an actual plot and it also built up to Kamala getting her
powers and then learning to control them instead of her somehow
spontaneously knowing how to control them.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
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personalities and their lives seemed very realistic (excluding the fact
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much on that Kamala was a Muslim and the stereotypes that go with that or
just on the superhero part of her. Meaning, there was a pretty good
balance in the comic between characters, their personalities and
stereotypes and the superhero aspect of the comic so that was also
awesome.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
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to give anything away. I do hope however that you do read the Ms. Marvel comics
as they are pretty good and it's a wonderful way to step into the world of
comics without getting overwhelmed from all the older comics with a bunch of
spin-offs and ten times as much of volumes.</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Let’s be honest. Whoever came up with the phrase, “Don’t judge a book by its cover,” was reading in the dark. Or listening to an audiobook. Or got a great, hand-me-down book that had the cover ripped off. Because, before an author’s name is connected to incredible story telling, the cover is all a reader has to go by. And ask most readers—the cover determines whether they will pick up the book. Read the back. And open the book and read the first few lines. Each step leads to the ultimate decision to invest in the story, but the very first step often rests with the invitation of the cover.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">In the final stages of cover decision-making, I had a cover crisis. The artwork was so engaging that the title sort of got lost in it. But when I tried to fix it, rather than let the artist make her professional changes, I overcompensated and pushed the details off the page, literally. With only days till the book when live on Amazon, Deepa coached me in some Photoshop basics, and I think we found our perfectly balanced cover: Stars. Blue. Clouds below. And the Post-it on back.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">When I finished the first draft of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Soaring Through Stars</i>, I began to think about my cover. And without a second thought, I knew I wanted my niece and SVA college student, Deepa Paulus, to design it. The only boundaries I gave her were to make sure the cover had stars on the front, a Post-it Note on the back, and the color blue for Talia. The rest was up to her.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">I’m not an artist, but I can only imagine how long it took for her to create a starry sky brimmed by clouds with her pen and pencil on paper. When she showed me an early draft of the hand-drawn cover, I loved it! But I also knew right away: more stars, less clouds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Once the background was finalized, Deepa went to work with her Photoshop skills, adding blues, sparkling up stars, and matching the fonts from the other two books in the trilogy to help link the books. We had some back and forth about the shades of blue and eventually agreed on a darker but brighter blue that helped the font to stand out and suggest evening, rather than the black sky of nighttime.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>Deepa</b></span>: The main challenge that came with making this cover was definitely layout. There are just so many ways of placing information on a page that it can be quite tricky figuring out what works best. Getting feedback definitely makes the process easier than doing it all alone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Deepa:</span></b> I would not really change much about the process. Keeping my files organized definitely helped when changes had to be made, so I would continue working the way I did.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Not every author gets a say in how his or her cover will turn out. I’ve had the opportunity to give feedback on all my covers so far. And if a picture is worth a thousand words, maybe a book cover is worth sixty-five thousand—the average length of each young adult book I wrote.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Grateful for a chance to work with an up and coming artist and digital wiz, thank you Deepa for working so hard on my book cover. I’m thrilled to push book three out of the nest and send her a flight. And I hope the story will take readers Soaring </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Through Stars. </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><i>A funny thing happened during NaNoWriMo 2014; okay, a few
funny things happened.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Like many writers around the world, I look forward to
participating in NaNo every November. (Don’t know what NaNoWriMo is? Learn more
</span><a href="http://nanowrimo.org/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">.) In
the past I’ve banged out full-length epic fantasies and short stories featuring
everything from zombies to homicidal horses. I didn’t do anything like that for
NaNo 2014.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Okay, so I didn’t finish the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">entire</i> series by November 30. But I did finish book one, working
title <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Changing Teams</i>, in 19 days. In
the remaining eleven I outlined the next three books and wrote a tie-in short
story. Yeah, this series was happening in a big way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I plunged ahead into book two, but when I was halfway in I
decided it should be book three. Then I switched the protagonists for books two
and four and added some backstory to book three, which meant that I needed to
make some changes to book one. In essence, I was writing the entire series at
once. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This was uncharted territory for me. I’ve written three
series in the past—one epic fantasy, two urban fantasies—and I’ve always
followed the same formula: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Write
book one (meaning the whole process including beta reading, editing, etc.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Check
out the market, determine which agents and publishers are buying works similar
to mine<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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query letters, synopses, and submit away<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Commence
nail biting<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If book
one is picked up, consider series potential<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This time around, instead of waiting for an agent or
publisher to express interest in book one, I’ll have the entire series in my
back pocket. If someone asks, “Hey, is there a sequel?” I can shoot it right
over. If I decide to forgo traditional publishing and self-publish, I can
release each title a month or two apart, and capitalize on series momentum.
And, probably the best thing about writing the whole series at once is that I
get to put in those little Easter eggs that fans love to find, and smooth out plot
holes along the way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Is writing an entire series simultaneously hard? You bet it
is. But it’s a relatively simple trick from which I’m already reaping awards.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #4a4a49; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Bio:</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; color: #4a4a49; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="background: white; color: #4a4a49; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I'm Jennifer Allis Provost. I write books about faeries, orcs
and elves. Zombies too. My latest release is Copper Ravens, book two of the
Copper Legacy, in June 2014 from Spence City. Look for my next release, the
epic fantasy Heir to the Sun, June 1 2015. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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on Facebook:</span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/jennallis"><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #497ca7; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">http://www.facebook.com/jennallis</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; color: #4a4a49; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00725012086692924891noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2190268181568330958.post-36138037746175828402015-04-12T16:38:00.000-04:002015-04-12T21:55:03.244-04:00Kristin's Book Review: The Boys in the BoatMy friend Kristin Wroblewski, an avid reader, is a guest reviewer on this blog. This is her review of the NYT #1 bestseller, <b>The Boys on The Boat, </b><b>a Remarkable True Story</b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Summary:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">For readers of </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Unbroken</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">, out of the depths of the Depression comes an irresistible story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most desperate of times—the improbable, intimate account of how nine working-class boys from the American West showed the world at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin what true grit really meant.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It was an unlikely quest from the start. With a team composed of the sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the University of Washington’s eight-oar crew team was never expected to defeat the elite teams of the East Coast and Great Britain, yet they did, going on to shock the world by defeating the German team rowing for Adolf Hitler. The emotional heart of the tale lies with Joe Rantz, a teenager without family or prospects, who rows not only to regain his shattered self-regard but also to find a real place for himself in the world. Drawing on the boys’ own journals and vivid memories of a once-in-a-lifetime shared dream, Brown has created an unforgettable portrait of an era, a celebration of a remarkable achievement, and a chronicle of one extraordinary young man’s personal quest.</span><br />
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The generation of men who went off to war after Pearl Harbor were mercilessly</div>
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socioeconomic backgrounds. They had a common bond, rowing. A sport that</div>
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people sit up and take notice. Within this amazing story of courage and perseverance,</div>
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Jesse Owens, Louis Zamperini and a man, a Brit, by the last name of</div>
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Laurie. His son would become a very well known actor many years later.</div>
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America believe.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00725012086692924891noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2190268181568330958.post-17802073968325591692015-04-07T12:31:00.003-04:002015-04-07T12:31:50.845-04:009 Ways to Promote Your Book—Guest Post by author and internet marketer, Sara Crawford<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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These days, it’s not enough to write a great book.
Whether you self-publish, publish with an independent or small publisher, or
even land a big book deal with one of the “Big Five” publishers, you need to do
as much of your own marketing and promotion as you can. Here are some tools you
can use.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1. E-mail lists – </b><a href="https://www.salesforce.com/blog/2013/07/email-marketing-stats.html">Statistics
show</a> that e-mail marketing is still one of the most effective strategies.
Encourage readers, visitors to your blog, and social media followers to sign up
for your mailing list. Give people an incentive to sign up, whether it’s a
discount on your book, a free bookmark, a free chapter sample, or something
else. Find a way to make your e-mails more than just promotional. Include
beneficial information related to your book. (For example, if your book is set
in the South and features a lot of Southern cooking, include some fun recipes.
Get creative!)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">2. Social media – </b>Every
social network has a different audience and a different purpose. Get to know
the different social networks (Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Tumblr, Pinterest,
YouTube, Instagram, Goodreads etc.) and find out which sites your target
audience visits most often. (Tumblr is popular among teenagers, for example. If
your book features fashionable or crafty characters, Pinterest may be a good
place to promote it.) Don’t just use the social networks to be promotional,
though. Support other writers, engage with your readers, and post interesting,
funny, or thought-provoking posts. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">3. Swag – </b>Whether
it’s a bookmark, coffee mug, t-shirt, bracelet, postcard, journal, or any other
item, merch is an excellent way to get the word out about your book. You may
have to invest a little money, but these physical items can often make people
remember you and your book. I used to be in a band called Pocket the Moon. I
ordered a ton of plastic toy unicorns, wrote our band name on them, and we sold
these at our shows for five bucks. We also gave out free moon pies. These kinds
of unique items helped people to remember us, and it made our shows a more fun
experience. Find some creative swag that will make people remember your book. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">4. Contests and
giveaways – </b>These are a great way to create buzz around your book. You can host
a giveaway or contest on your website, Goodreads, YouTube, or many other
places. You can give away signed copies of your book or some of the fun swag
mentioned above. You can team up with local bookstores and giveaway coupons or
gift certificates. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">5. Blog tours – </b>A
blog tour is a virtual tour to help an author promote his or her book. These
“tours” go from one book blog to the next with interesting posts such as
reviews, guest blog posts, cover reveals, etc., and they are a useful tool to
help you connect with potential readers. While it is possible to organize your
own blog tour, there are <a href="http://theeternalscribe.weebly.com/blog/a-comparison-of-book-blog-tour-services">many
different services</a> that will do this for you for a low fee. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">6. Attend or
organize live events – </b>Contact your local library or bookstore to schedule
a reading or a signing. Visit nearby schools to discuss your book with students
(particularly if your book is for children or teens). Schedule talks and/or
workshops about writing and sell your book in the back of the room. Find book
festivals and conferences you can attend, and see if you can get on one of the
panels. You can also schedule unconventional events. For example, if your book
is about music, maybe organize a live musical performance and read a short
section in between performers. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">7. Team up with
other authors – </b>Find two or three authors with books in your genre, and
organize events. These may be panel discussions, readings, or book signings.
It’s easier to do a regional or even national promotional book tour as well if
you have other authors to split expenses, especially if you don’t have a huge
marketing budget.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">8. Encourage
readers to leave reviews and spread the word – </b>A lot of authors have a
section at the end of their books (I see this a lot with e-books especially)
asking readers specifically to review their book on Amazon, Goodreads, Barnes
& Noble, etc. if they enjoyed it. You could also just mention this when you
do live events. Readers are more likely to leave reviews if you ask!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">9. Think outside
of the box –</b> How can you make your book promotion fun for both you and your
readers? Are there any unique products you can create based on the content of
your book? Can you organize events that tie in with any sort of organization or
cause related to the subject matter of your book? These are great questions to
ask yourself when coming up with a marketing plan.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Other resources:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="http://www.yourwriterplatform.com/promote-and-market-your-book/">71 Ways
to Promote and Market Your Book</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="http://www.writersstore.com/15-do-it-yourself-tools-to-promote-your-book/">15
Do-it-Yourself Tools to Promote Your Book</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/randy-susan-meyers/promoting-a-book-advice-and-resources_b_877272.html">From
Writing Quietly to Screaming “Buy Me!”</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sara Crawford </i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">is a writer and internet marketer from Atlanta,
Georgia. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of New Orleans.
Her upcoming debut young adult novel is called WE OWN THE SKY. </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">In addition to her writing blog, she
maintains </span></i><a href="http://crawfordwritingblog.com/the-daily-writer/"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">THE DAILY WRITER</span></i></a><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;"> mailing list providing daily inspiration for writers.</span></i></div>
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