Tag: literature
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A YA Manifesto
Kids are not kids. Because kids are not kids, let’s not write Y/A books as though youth are young — and everything else that word implies: naive, lacking in experience, and requiring a certain padded version of existence.
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How to write a trilogy (in three easy steps)
A couple of weeks ago I penned the last sentence in the True Born Trilogy. Now that I’ve finished a draft of the third novel (whose title I’m not sure I’m at liberty to tell you yet – but book two, True North, is slated for release in April 2017) I feel like I’ve really…
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chapter 7: in which I am ushered into the world of book trailers
Okay, listen. I confess: I’m kind of a newbie at the whole “book trailer” biz. I don’t know what they’re all about – and frankly, neither do my bookish, English Lit PhD-wielding friends. (“I’ve never heard of a book trailer,” my BFF Steph wrote to me recently.) I have been trying to figure out what they’re for.…
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ASK ME ANYTHING! THURSDAY, MAY 5TH, 2016
TONIGHT! 7:30 PM EST – ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN WHEN YOU CAN ASK ME ANYTHING! What can nanotechnology do in the human body? How many hours did it take for me to write True Born? Can Canadians get away with writing genre fiction? What’s my favourite yoga pose? Is it just me or does William Shatner run the world?…
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Welcome to Day 10 in Dominion City. This is the last chapter that will be posted on Wattpad ahead of True Born’s official release on May 3rd – and we’re in uncharted territory here. Read Chapter 10 here, or start at the beginning here. I hope you’ve enjoyed these 10 Days of True Born.…