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Weekly Recap

Published April 17, 2016

Another two-week recap. Someday I’ll be caught up~

 

New Releases This Week

 

This Week in Cover Reveals

 

And some new book deals announced that I’m ridiculously excited for:

The Girl with the Red Balloon by Katherine Locke

Mirage by Somaiya Daud

The Wanderings of Dessa Rose by Lauren Spieller

 

This Week on the Internet

How do you take your writing to the next level? from Janice Hardy

When In Doubt, Write What You Love: Chuck Wendig on dodging burnout, or why I can have one month where I write 20K words and hate every second, or why I can (currently) hit 70K in a month and still want to do more.

 

This Week in Writing (aka why I’m behind on recaps again)

 

This Week in Reading

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Weekly Recap

Published March 27, 2016

Hi, friends! I’ve been radio silent for the past few weeks dealing with an avalanche of deadlines and a tyranny of promotional events (including for the stellar A Tyranny of Petticoats anthology, in which I have a story)! So this weekly recap will actually be for the past few weeks. Mea culpa.

 

The Past Few Weeks In New Releases

 

The Past Few Weeks in Cover Reveals

(I know I missed a TON, so I apologize!)

 

These Past Few Weeks in Internet Reading

Moneyball for Book Publishing – Reader habits data and what it could mean for how books get produced down the line.

What Authors Can and Can’t Control in Traditional Publishing

On writing a “middle-finger book” from Nova Ren Suma. I feel this deeply.

“I just don’t identify with the character” – an in-depth look at how editors and publishers perpetuate homogenous identities and experiences in children’s literature, and how they can create lasting and meaningful diversity.

 

These Past Few Weeks in Writing

(ie, why I’ve sucked at blogging lately)

Finished line edits on A Darkly Beating Heart! This was a mad, exhilarating sprint and I’m in such a better place now about this book.

Finished up a slew of freelance work.

Loads and loads of fun promotional events for A Tyranny of Petticoats!

Write some fun bonus material for a forthcoming promotional effort for The Witch Who Came In From the Cold. More information soon . . .

Great progress on Ghosts of Grimley, my first foray into middle grade.

I’ve finished the outline and I’m full steam ahead on my next YA project, which will also be my Camp NaNoWriMo draft for April.

…And finally, I’m writing a Valentin POV story as a gift for everyone who signs up for my newsletter on or before April 19th, to celebrate the paperback releases of Sekret and Skandal! (There’s loads of other goodies in the #SekretSkandal giveaway too, so don’t miss out!)

P.S.: If you’d like to keep up with me and all my wild writing pursuits, plus use a great project tracker for your own writing, join me on My Write Club!

The Past Few Weeks in Reading

 

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Weekly Recap

Published January 31, 2016

The Witch Who Came In From the Cold is live!!! Read or listen to Episode 1 FREE right now:

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New Releases of Note

 

Cover Reveals

 

On the Internet

The 2015 Diversity in Publishing survey is out and, to no one’s surprise, publishing is overwhelmingly the domain of straight white women. Why does this matter? For starters, it reflects the extent to which low salaries, unpaid internships, stringent educational requirements and more serve to limit access to publishing jobs. Then it leads to in-group bias in editorial decisions and acquisitions–straight white women tend to favor books written by and about straight white women, and can be shockingly blind to insensitivities and offenses in the work they choose to promote. That’s how we get multiple children’s books featuring smiling slaves and the parade of unending Nazi romances, just to point to a few recent examples. Readers and writers can and should do more to promote the diverse voices among us–actually promote, as in buying books and boosting others’ voices instead of talking over/for them–but publishers need to take a long, hard look not only at their own editorial board but at their hiring practices and recruiting process. Daniel Jose Older has more, especially on the tendency to confuse the calls for better representation with censorship.

 

Heather Webb on time management for writers.

Kameron Hurley gets righteous about publishing contracts, including my oh-so-despised non-compete clause.

 

In Writing

  • Revisions on A Darkly Beating Heart. Lots and lots of revisions. With more to come.
  • Final chapters outlined for rhymes-with-“fey hairwolves.” Now, to have free time to finish drafting it . . . !
  • Long potential career path chats with a friend, leading to settling on next project.
  • Freelance work.

As it’s the end of January, I’ll give my monthly writing total, which is also my yearly total for 2016: 29,107 words. Ugh. Ew. Yuk.

January and February are historically my worst months for word counts. Aside from the fact that I always seem to be in the midst of substantive edits for contracted books in January (and this year is no exception), thus taking away from my drafting time, I do seem to struggle with seasonal affect during this time. The post-holiday malaise is real, too, and my motivation bottoms out around this time. I know, however, that once I turn in ADBH revisions, I will feel so light and ecstatic. As I’m aiming to do so in one week, I’m going to grit my teeth, get through my final pass, and then look forward to joyous, joyous drafting for the rest of February.

Therefore, I am setting my February word count goal for 45,000 words.

 

Events!

I’ll be at New York City Teen Author Festival in March!

An Evening of Treachery at McNally Jackson

Mega Book Signing

 

I’ll also be at Northern Virginia Teen Book Festival and the Tyranny of Petticoats Launch Party earlier in March.

 

 

What I’ve Been Reading

 

 

How was your week in reading and writing? What are you planning for February?

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