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A Cover Winner

Kate — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:30:07 +0000

Turning the blog over to Intern Jenny for her announcement of the winner of the cover design contest! Take it away, Jenny!

All of your cover designs were so great that it was hard to choose just one. Ultimately I had to envision myself perusing the YA section of the book store, not tough since it’s one of my favorite past times, and ask myself which cover would inspire me to pick the book off of the shelf. The winner of our contest looks like a bona fide YA novel straight from Barnes and Noble. And the winner is…

talshannon (aka Xarles Boivin) for PALE! I actually really liked both of the covers. Each one stirs up a completely different concept of what the story might be, which just goes to show how important the right cover is.

Of course there were some very close runners up. HWPetty‘s cover for FORCE was compelling and MarcyKate‘s TRAVERSE had me giggling.

Thanks to everyone for participating and congrats to talshannon for winning a copy of Alyson Noel’s best-selling novel BLUE MOON! Please send us an email with your mailing address so we can get your prize to you.

Having Some Fun with Book Covers

Kate — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:20:55 +0000

There’s been lots of serious talk about book covers recently, so let’s have a little fun today, shall we? I’m totally stealing my idea for this post from the Alien Onions, who blogged:

CREATE YOUR DEBUT YA COVER

1 – Go to Fake Name Generator. The name that appears is your author name.

2 – Go to Random Word Generator. The word listed under “Random Verb” is your title.

3 – Go to FlickrCC. Type your title into the search box. The first photo that contains a person is your cover.

4 – Use Photoshop, Picnik, or similar (I use Snagit Editor) to put it all together. Be sure to crop and/or zoom in, as desired.

5 – Post it to your site along with this text.

Mine’s above. What’s yours? Link to it in the comments. And just to make it interesting, Intern Jenny will pick her favorite cover to win a copy of Alyson Noel‘s #1 New York Times bestseller Blue Moon.

Let your inner artist shine forth!

A Hook for a Book!

Kate — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 01:01:09 +0000

Wow — you guys kept me reading all day! I’m thrilled so many of you took up the Writing Prompt challenge, but in the end, I’m afraid there can be only one winner. The winning hook:

Levi’s got the charm, the looks and the right amount of naughty to get Jess into illegal sorts of trouble when the heat is sweltering by the grill-side.

Congrats to ChristaCarol, whose full piece is on her blog here. ChristaCarol, send me an email at daphne.unfeasible@gmail.com with your mailing address and your choice of a book by one of my authors.

But let’s not make this all about me, and my thoughts. What did you guys think? Did you like the exercise? Did you enjoy reading each other’s pieces? Which ones were your favorites?

And finally, a shout out to Alyson Noel, whose eagerly anticipated novel Blue Moon, the sequel to her #1 New York Times bestseller Evermore, is in stores today!

EVERMORE news

Kate — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:30:33 +0000

Wow, the news just keeps getting better! Alyson Noel’s Evermore jumps up to #1 on the New York Times bestseller list next week. Wooot! *dances around*
And there’s been such demand for the sequel, Blue Moon, that St. Martin’s has pushed the pub date up a month, to July 2009 instead of August. One less month to wait to find out what happens next!

Linkapalooza time again!

Kate — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:41:57 +0000

Double entry today, since the links are piling up fast and furiously. So let’s get right to it!
Check out Orange Coast Magazine’s profile of Alyson Noel, whose latest YA novel Evermore is enjoying its third week on the NY Times bestseller list. Woot! If you want a sneak peek at Blue Moon, the next book in the series, you can see the cover on my clients page or on Alyson’s blog.
Alyson’s not the only kt literary author with cool things going on. Check out Readingjunky’s review of S. Terrell French‘s debut Operation Redwood.
And Trish Doller was interviewed by Juvenescence, who admired her ability to taking slacking to a whole new level!
Other fun stuff on the interwebs: The Writer’s Guide to Literary Agents Editor’s Blog has a great post up about approaching agents via social networking sites like Facebook or Twitter. The anonymous agent’s answer to a Facebook friend request from an aspiring writer is almost word-for-word similar to my own response to such requests. (Although not Daphne’s response. Daphne loves friend requests, and accepts all!)
Then, Gawker has a post up about the settlement between Google and the Author’s Guild. If you think you might be affected, be sure to read the whole thing.
And speaking of the Author’s Guild, they’ve been making a lot of noise recently about the Kindle 2′s text-to-speech application. Check out several prominent authors’ positions on the brouhaha: Cory Doctorow, Neil Gaiman, John Scalzi, and Wil Wheaton. (Yes, I’m counting Wil as a prominent author. What ya gonna do about it?)
What news have you seen worth sharing?

Congratulations!!!

Kate — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:41:31 +0000

I’m raising a glass of bubbly to Alyson Noel, whose new novel Evermore debuts on the New York Times bestseller list at #3! Congratulations, Alyson!
We’ve also just closed a deal for Hungarian rights to Evermore and its sequel Blue Moon, which joins the German and Spanish deals already made. With many more to come…