| September 26, 2007

Dang, nobody took me up on the YA LOLcats. Oh well. We’ve been light on editing content this week, sorry about that. Mostly it’s because there’s not a lot going on. Work is work. I finished the final edit of book 3 of Hallowmere (oh, the interesting things that are happening!), within the last couple weeks we’ve [...]

YALOLcat, with a bonus

| September 22, 2007

I think tltrent  had a good idea, so here is the thread to post your YA LoLcats. I’ll start it with her suggestion for my MoggetLOL: And for fun, a bonus LOL with selimsa803 ‘s suggestion, which has nothing to do with YA lit: Now, it’s your turn! Make your own YA LOLcat and post [...]

LOLMogget

| September 21, 2007

I took a picture of Mogget tonight that screams LOLcat to me. But I’m having trouble coming up with a good caption. Here are my two options so far. Suggestions for a better one?

If Mogget could talk, it wouldn’t be like this

| September 21, 2007

I was just telling a friend last night that if my own cat could talk, especially when I first get home at night, it would consist mostly of recrimination for not feeding him fast enough. Winchester, on the other hand, is writing a book.Ellsworth’s Journal gives me a giggle every time I read it, especially with the [...]

A contest

| September 20, 2007

The prize for which is nothing but bragging rights. Background: I have been roped into a church talent show for this weekend. I could have offered a number of my talents–photography for the display portion, singing a song or playing on my trumpet–but I don’t have enough time to prepare anything interesting. I’d have to [...]

Q&A: Sex in YA

| September 20, 2007

A reader asks: As a teenager, I wanted to read books that didn’t have sex in them. As a writer, I want to create the kind of books that I wanted to read as a teenager. Yet, I was afraid that an editor or an agent would want me to put sex scenes in my [...]

Done!

| September 17, 2007

The feeling when an editor looks at the final correction on a galley and passes it back to the typesetter without any more corrections is a very happy moment. It means a lot of things: the first is a feeling of relief–one less book to juggle on my schedule! But it’s also a joyful feeling of [...]

Today’s Tales from the Slush Pile

| September 13, 2007

I think the authors I work with can attest that I tend to haunt them. I can’t seem to link to today’s, so I posted it with a link to the comic, which came out in the PW Children’s Bookshelf, a really informative newsletter that comes out every week. That link is to last week’s strip, which I got [...]

Joseph Campbell’s reading list

| September 11, 2007

I don’t know if I’ve really ever talked all that much about my love of fairy and folk tales on this blog. I mean, I talk about how fantasy draws from those traditions, but I love the tales themselves and finding out about the cultures that gave birth to those tales, theory about tales, and on and on. One of [...]

Job opening: editor

| September 10, 2007

With the recent departure from our department of longtime Wizards editor Mark Sehestedt, we find ourselves in need of an editor on the adult fantasy side. If you’re an editor with five years or more of book publishing experience, with at least two years at a trade publisher preferably, or if you know of someone who fits that [...]