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This Week's InterviewsThe Time-Traveling Fashionista by Biana Turetsky- From Goodreads: When Louise Lambert receives a mysterious invitation to a traveling vintage fashion sale in the mail, her normal life in suburban Connecticut is magically transformed into a time traveling adventure. After a brief encounter with two witchy salesladies and donning an evening gown that once belonged to a beautiful silent film star, Louise suddenly finds herself onboard a luxurious cruise ship in 1912. As Alice Baxter, the silent film star, Louise enjoys her access to an extensive closet of gorgeous vintage gowns and begins to get a feel for the challenges and the glamour of life during this decadent era. Until she realizes that she's not just on any ship-- she's on the Titanic! Will Louise be able to save herself and change the course of history, or are she and her film star alter ego, destined to go down with a sinking ship in the most infamous sea disaster of the 20th century?
How long did you work on this book?Now it seems like I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t working on this book! I got the idea over 5 years ago after visiting a vintage store and trying on a white wool jacket that belonged to a Mrs Baxter from Newport Rhode Island. I remember talking about the idea over brunch and knowing, somewhere deep inside, that this idea was going to change my life. Of course I never told that to anyone or else they’d think I was a little nuts. But I couldn’t shake the story, so I woke up every day a little earlier, and wrote for one hour before going to work. I still do that actually.How was your journey to publication? Long, short, how many rejections?It felt like an eternity while I was going through it, but in reality it probably is pretty typical. It took me three years to write the book and get it to a point where I could find an agent, and then one year of revising with my fabulous agent, Elisabeth Weed. I still can’t believe how patient she was with me! And then we were rejected by every single publisher before finding a home at Poppy. At the time, I was really anxious and upset about the whole process. I mean no one likes to be rejec
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This Week's InterviewsRed Glove (Curse Workers #2) by Holly Black- From Goodreads: After rescuing his brothers from Zacharov's retribution and finding out that Lila, the girl he has loved his whole life, will never, ever be his now that his mother has worked her, Cassel is trying to reestablish some kind of normalcy in his life. That was never going to be easy for someone from a worker family tied to one of the big crime families and a mother whose cons get more reckless by the day. But Cassel is also coming to terms with what it means to be a transformation worker and figuring out how to have friends. But normal doesn't last very long--soon Cassel is being courted by both sides of the law and is forced to confront his past. A past he remembers only in scattered fragments and one that could destroy his family and his future. Cassel will have to decide whose side he wants to be on because neutrality is not an option. And then he will have to pull off his biggest con ever to survive.
How long did you work on this book?I worked on the Curse Workers world for a couple of years, but it took me about a year to write RED GLOVE. The sequel is always easier, especially because I knew this was series.How was your journey to publication? Long, short, how many rejections?My first book, TITHE, actually went to the first editor I sent it to -- Kevin Lewis, who would become my editor on the SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES as well. A friend who worked with him asked him to look at the book and he agreed. After a few months of considering it, Kevin decided that he wanted to make an offer. I was completely floored, since at first I thought that he was just going to tell me whether or not he thought TITHE could be published as a young adult novel. I had no agent and no idea what I was doing. I just sort of stumbled into it.What advice would you most like to pass along to other writers?To write the book that pleases your reader self instead of your writer self.What has surprised you most about becoming a published author?
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This Week's InterviewsMemento Nora by Angie Smibert- From Angie's blog: Nora, the popular girl and happy consumer, witnesses a horrific bombing on a shopping trip with her mother. In Nora’s near-future world, terrorism is so commonplace that she can pop one little white pill to forget and go on like nothing ever happened. However, when Nora makes her first trip to a Therapeutic Forgetting Clinic, she learns what her mother, a frequent forgetter, has been frequently forgetting. Nora secretly spits out the pill and holds on to her memories. The memory of the bombing as well as her mother’s secret and her budding awareness of the world outside her little clique make it increasingly difficult for Nora to cope. She turns to two new friends, each with their own reasons to remember, and together they share their experiences with their classmates through an underground comic. They soon learn, though, they can’t get away with remembering.
How long did you work on this book?The idea started as a short story, which was published in the May/June 2008 issue of Odyssey magazine. Then I started thinking about growing the story into a novel. I worked on it for about a year or so. During that time I workshopped pieces / stages of the book in various online workshops.How was your journey to publication? Long, short, how many rejections?I've been incredibly lucky in my journey. I attended a regional SCBWI conference (Mid-Atlantic), which was the best money I ever spent. After I got home, I submitted the manuscript to several of the editors (and an agent) who had done panels at the conference. (That is one of the perks of these conferences. Editors let participants sub manuscripts directly.) My current editor at Marshall Cavendish was one of those panelists.What advice would you most like to pass along to other writers?See above. If you're an aspiring children's book author, join SCBWI and go to at least one regional conference.What has surprised you most about becoming a published author?All the waiting. You expect it in the submission process. You send out a manuscript or short story and wait. In the editorial process, though, there's even more waiting. You work furiously on revisions and then wait. Ditto for about every stage of the
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this week. Don't miss the author interviews and of course, the giveaway all the way at the bottom!
This Week's InterviewsThe Dark and Hollow Places (The Forest of Hands and Teeth #3) by Carrie Ryan- From Goodreads: There are many things that Annah would like to forget: the look on her sister's face before Annah left her behind in the Forest of Hands and Teeth, her first glimpse of the Horde as they swarmed the Dark City, the sear of the barbed wire that would scar her for life. But most of all, Annah would like to forget the morning Elias left her for the Recruiters. Annah's world stopped that day, and she's been waiting for Elias to come home ever since. Somehow, without him, her life doesn't feel much different than the dead that roam the wasted city around her. Until she meets Catcher, and everything feels alive again. But Catcher has his own secrets. Dark, terrifying truths that link him to a past Annah has longed to forget, and to a future too deadly to consider. And now it's up to Annah: can she continue to live in a world covered in the blood of the living? Or is death the only escape from the Return's destruction?
How long did you work on this book?I worked on The Dark and Hollow Places for about a year. I’ve found that to be fairly typical -- a couple of months wandering around in the darkness looking for the story, a few months drafting, and then about half a year of going back and forth with my editor on revisions.How was your journey to publication? Long, short, how many rejections?I first started writing seriously, looking to publish, right out of college in 2000. That year I wrote two romance novels, queried one of them and got some requests but no offers. I then realized that I needed to take a step back and figure out what I wanted to be writing and also figure out what else I wanted to do in life since it can be so difficult to make a living with writing. For four years I didn’t write (I ended up at law school) and it wasn’t until I was practicing law full time that I realized my absolute dream was to become a writer and that I really needed buckle down if I wanted to pursue that dream.In 2006 I created a 10 Year Plan to write, revise, submit books for ten years, hoping that at the end I’d be published (I chose 10 years because that way I couldn’t allow myself to get discouraged -- I was in it for the long haul). In November I began The Forest of Hands and Teeth for National Novel Writing Month, a year later I began querying agents, recei
Nightlight: A Parody: The Harvard Lampoon. 2009. Knopf Doubleday. 160 pages.
The hot Phoenix sun glared down on the car windowsill where my bare, pallid arm dangled shamelessly. My mom and I were both going to the airport, but only I had a ticket waiting for me, and that ticket was one-way.I had a dejected, brooding expression on my face, and I could tell from the reflection on the window that it was also an intriguing expression. It seemed out of place, coming from a girl in a sleeveless, lacy top and bell-bottom jeans (stars on the back pockets). But I was that kind of girl--out of place. Then I shifted from that place on the dashboard to a normal position in the seat. Much better. You'll either love it or hate it. Depending on how you feel about sparkly vampires. If you think of Edward as your ideal match? Probably not so much. But for the rest of us, those that see Twilight as something to be mildly tolerated--at best--to outright ridiculed, well, this is your kind of book. And I found it to be just the right length. IF this one was as long as Twilight itself, well, it might have become old. But as it is, it's funny enough to entertain you for one afternoon. It's a satisfying read too.
Our narrator, Belle Goose, has just moved to Switchblade, Oregon, to live with her father, who has just gifted her with a U-Haul truck. On her first day of school, she is wowed by Edwart Mullen, a boy more interested in computers than girls. To her delight, this dreamy boy (she's the only one who finds him swoon-worthy) is in her biology class. Here's how she describes him, "I hadn't seen something this beautiful since I was a kid and the Skittles in my sweaty fist turned my hand rainbow." (18) She wants him, but does he want her? How far is she willing to go to get him to notice her? to talk to her? Will he play her games? Will he pretend to be the bossy, controlling vampire that she foolishly imagines him to be?
I enjoyed Belle Goose. I enjoyed Edwart Mullen. I did. I liked him better than Edward. And I really loved the ending!!! This one had me smiling throughout. When I was looking for what quotes to include, well, I accidentally reread half the book. I think that says something about how well this one works--as a parody, at least. Like how
Shamela complements
Pamela. When it's done well, you almost wish there were more of these parodies being published.
When I saw him waiting for me outside the terminal, I walked towards him shyly, tripping over a toddler and soaring into a key chain display. Embarrassed, I straightened up and fell down the escalator, somersaulting over the roller luggage inconsiderately placed on the left side. I get my lack of coordination from my dad, who always used to push me down when I was learning how to walk. (5)
"It looks like your first class is English."
"But I've already taken English. A few semesters of it, actually."
"Don't be smart with me, young lady."
So she knew I was smart. Flattered, I conceded.
"You know what?" I said. "I'll go. What the heck, right?"
"Down the hall to your right," she told me. "Room 201."
"Thank you," I said. It wasn't even noon yet, and I'd already made a friend. Was I some kind of people-magnet? (10)
One girl walked with me to the cafeteria for lunch. She had brown bushy hair in a ponytail that was more like a squirrel tail in the context of her beady squirrel eyes. I thought I recognized her from somewhere, but I could
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Like with my wolf series, I wanted to show a world where some demons were the good guys, fighting evil to ensure the human population would survive. Instead of focusing on adults, though, I wrote about teens and their struggle to make a difference in their world. But Alana Fainot isn't just a lesser half demon pitted against the stronger demons slipping into the world. She's also a witch, if she can just learn some spells in time to help her newly found demon friends. But it has adult themes.
The Trouble with Demons
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Witches and warlocks hide their true identities from the rest of the human population, while three teens with demon heritage living with human families, become unlikely companions in a race against time to deal with a demon threat to humankind in their own quirky way. Alana Fainot, a witch and half Kubiteron demon, witnesses a Matusa murder his summoner, and she knows he’ll target her next. Raised by her mother, she has no idea who her demon father is. But when she’s pulled to a demon portal, she meets Hunter Ross, half Matusa, half human, who returns demons to their world, but who’s been poisoned by a Matusa and is more dead than alive. His human mother gave him up for adoption, and he doesn’t know who either of his birth parents are. His friend Jared Kensington, full blooded Elantus demon, less powerful than the Kubiteron, is a whiz at electronics and helps Hunter track demons in the city, but was abandoned by his parents on Earth world for reasons unknown. He’s determined to find help to save Hunter. Alana knows aiding any Matusa is a mistake, but when she learns Hunter is half human, she makes a deal—he protects her against the Matusa who will come for her, and she helps find his dad in the demon world to save Hunter’s life.... (Read more) Alana Fainot, a witch and half Kubiteron demon, witnesses a Matusa murder his summoner, and she knows he’ll target her next. Raised by her mother, she has no idea who her demon father is. But when she’s pulled to a demon portal, she meets Hunter Ross, half Matusa, half human, who returns demons to their world, but who’s been poisoned by a Matusa and is more dead than alive. His human mother gave him up for adoption, and he doesn’t know
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10 prizes!!!This Week's InterviewsLike Mandarin by Kirsten Hubbard- From Goodreads: It's hard finding beauty in the badlands of Washokey, Wyoming, but 14-year-old Grace Carpenter knows it's not her mother's pageant obsessions, or the cowboy dances adored by her small-town classmates. True beauty is wild-girl Mandarin Ramey: 17, shameless and utterly carefree. Grace would give anything to be like Mandarin. When they're united for a project, they form an unlikely, explosive friendship, packed with nights spent skinny-dipping in the canal, liberating the town's animal-head trophies, and searching for someplace magic. Grace plays along when Mandarin suggests they run away together. Blame it on the crazy-making wildwinds plaguing their Badlands town. Because all too soon, Grace discovers Mandarin's unique beauty hides a girl who's troubled, broken, and even dangerous. And no matter how hard Grace fights to keep the magic, no friendship can withstand betrayal.
How long did you work on this book?Like Mandarin has been with me a very long time! Its first-ever version was a short story for a short fiction class my freshman year of college. I adapted it into a screenplay a couple years later, for a different class. Once I graduated, I turned into a novel for the first time. I queried a few agents with it and had some good feedback, but I knew it needed work I didn't quite have the wisdom to implement.Then when I was 25, I went back to it and overhauled it -- more of a rewrite than a revision, though the core characters, story and setting remained the same. That version landed my agent and sale within a matter of weeks. It's pretty amazing to think how far the story has come!How was your journey to publication? Long, short, how many rejections?Both, in a way. The first version of Like Mandarin I queried, I collected about 7 rejections (maybe 4 were requests). Then I wrote the first version of Wanderlove, and collected about 20 rejections over four months. In the meantime, I overhauled Like Mandarin. A weekend after I sent out my first batch of queries for it, I had an offer -- even though Wanderlove was still being considered! Since then, I've had the chance to overhaul it, too, and it'll be my second book with Delacorte in spring 2012.What advice would you most like to pass along to other writers?Write that next book! Don't pin all your hopes and energy o
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Wow this story sounds very dark, yet I am intrigued. Was the narration too off track by the epilogue? I'm looking for more books too read and I haven't seen this book on local selves. Is it worth it for me to go search for it?
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