Technically, I was back on Monday, but I had a lot of catching up to do yesterday and today, so I feel like I’m only now back in the swing of things (Note: not my back pictured.). But I want to issue a huge round of thanks to my guest bloggers: Sara Beitia, Kiki [...]
Since Kate and I began working together last spring, she has generously included me in the query process by allowing me to help her go through the queries she receives. After reading hundreds, even thousands, of them I find it fascinating how many trends surface and how they seem to happen in waves.
In the [...]
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 [...]
Irish dance shoes for Tami, who’s our latest participant in my semi-regular feature “About My Query.” How’s it work? I’m glad you asked. Authors are welcome to email me at daphne.unfeasible@gmail.com with their query, with the subject line “About My Query” and your book’s title. Semi-regularly, I will post one of [...]
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 [...]
