Hey guys! Renee and I have some fun stuff planned for the near future with this blog, but we need YOUR help. We’re looking for your favorite quotes from KT Literary books – either just the words, or if you have them illustrated in some way, even better! Please post them below in the comments, or link to where you’re hosting them. And thanks!
kt literary client Lili Wilkinson tipped me off to this post on Inside a Dog from Writer-in-Residence Brigid Lowry.
In writing, as in life, sometimes things happen that you don’t expect. You can draft and draft and draft, and prepare an outline of your novel that has every tiny little bit of plot mapped out to the nth degree, but if you’re not willing to toss all that aside, to let things go where they want to go, and let scenes play out as you never imagined they might, then I think you’re crippling yourself as a writer.
Apparently, the theme of my posts this week is going to be all about queries and genres. Which is cool by me! […]
There’s another brohaha brewing on the interwebs about Margo Rabb’s essay in The New York Times about her book being labeled as YA, and the assumed stigma that comes along with it, quoting a number of writers of both adult and children’s books. Justine Larbalestier wrote about the “stigma”, disagreeing with many of the points Rabb raised. I think it’s telling that she picked authors like James Patterson to quote, which seems an easy agreement to her point, especially since the Times has written before about Patterson’s horror at the sales of his books when they were shelved only in the teen section.
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They threw you away. That doesn't mean you're worthless. It only means they didn't see your worth. –Salvage
I've read it recently so it's top of mind, but will flip through my other books because I KNOW there were a ton of great lines in them. 🙂