Market My Words

More later, but for now, I wanted to share this interview I did with Shelli over at Market My Words, all about (you guessed it) marketing. An excerpt:
How important do you feel social networking is to authors?
Vitally important, I think. Gone are the days when an author could write a brilliant book, send it [...]

Filled Under: Ask Daphne!

Linkapalooza!

The tabs on my browser have flowed over to a second row, so it’s time for another tab-closing session of Linkapalooza! First up:
First, the School Library Journal ran one librarian’s “Open Letter to Kids’ Book Publishers.” Then, editor Andrew Karre wrote a rebuttal to her point about the length of books being published.
I [...]

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An Interview With Me

Want more info about me than you can get from daily blog posts, Facebook status updates, and tweets? Well, you’re in luck! Megan of Literary Life just posted an interview with yours truly. Got more questions that Megan and I didn’t cover? Put them in the comments, and I’ll answer them. [...]

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Authors in the News

Before we get into today’s look at the the archives, some exciting news for a few of our clients! First, I’m thrilled to announce that Ellen Booraem’s The Unnameables has been named to Voya’s list of the Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror of 2008. The full list is here, but their blurb, [...]

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Interesting Reading

I meant to share this last week, but here’s the next in Poets & Writers’ series on the people in publishing. This article is a Q&A with four young editors — again, I’d take umbrage at the term “young editors” — they are the heads of their imprints or divisions, with many years of experience below their belts. Still, they provide some interesting insight into publishing.

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