Week in Short

What a busy week it has been! I can't believe it's the 11th already. Not that I'm complaining. :D

The Must Read this week comes from our very own Kody at YA Highway where she talked about her seven deadly sins of querying.

News:
Some big books are coming to the big screen in the next few years! Check to see if your favorite is on the list. :D Hopefully some of them will wait until 2011. I already have six movies that I need to go see in theaters and I rarely ever go there. The last movie I saw in theaters was...probably G-Force.

BookEnds talked about what publishers do for book publicity.

Editorial Ass added a glossary of all the main posts.

GLA discussed the bio section of a query letter and had a short interview with Nathan Bransford.

Nathan Bransford talked about calling books "trash." I must bookmark this...

Writer Unboxed has a post on how real realistic fiction has to be. It's a fascinating post. Now does anyone know if I can get away with medical miracles?

My writing is coming along slowly. Destiny has returned from the trunk and I'm getting ready to run through some revisions. There's a couple minor things that I want to change while I contemplate the more major changes that have popped into my head. Jump is still coming along, but I'm not sure if she's going to be finished before NaNo. Shipwrecked is not going well at all and will probably be trunked again during NaNo.

Everyone have a great week :)

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Emilia Plater said…
AWESOME links. Good luck =D
October 11, 2009 at 6:09 PM
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