Carrie Harris put this out there a couple of days ago, but I didn’t want any of my readers to miss it! Without further ado, the fabulous video Carrie put together to reveal the cover for Bad Hair Day, the eagerly anticipated sequel to Bad Taste in Boys: So, how was YOUR hair in high [...]
A belated, but VERY happy congratulations to Lili Wilkinson, whose novel Pink won a Stonewall Honor at yesterday’s Youth Media Awards given out by the American Library Association! I was in the audience when it was announced, and I will not lie, I did my happy dance. The Stonewall Award is “given annually to English-language [...]
Let me be perfectly clear: in a query, you have ONE PAGE to hook my attention. One page to tell me enough about your book that I want to scan down to the end of your letter to read the three pages from your novel that I’ve requested you attach. Three pages that I will [...]
Last week was awesome. I reopened to queries, and every day, I carved out a little time in the afternoon to go through that day’s batch of email. It was fantastic! I was so on top of things! And then… One day, I didn’t have any time in the afternoon, so I told myself I’d [...]
