Tag: writing
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True North Launch Party & Reading
True North is getting a birthday party! I’ll be reading and signing books at Bakka Phoenix Books, April 23, 1 pm, to launch True North. Bakka Phoenix Books, 84 Harbord, Toronto, ON – Let me know if you can make it!
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#TeamEpic V.S. #TeamUrban: Fantasy twitterwar – Feb. 28
Join me and my friends, including NYTimes bestselling Y/A author Brenda Drake (@brendadrake) for a no-holds barred Epic Vs. Urban Fantasy Twitterwar! Who will bring the most snark? Whose heroes are the swooniest? Whose heroines are the most kickass? Find out — Tuesday, Feb. 28, 9 pm EST Follow the action of my team: #TeamEpic…
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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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Afterglow
Writing is courage. There is first the courage of facing the blank page, and by extension, your own true self. The second is the bravery it takes to share that multiplicity of selves with others and the world, knowing that your book-selves will likely face endless rejections. Then there is the courage you need in…