Stacy | July 21, 2011
This is one of my favorite moments from the Korean TV show You’re Beautiful but I can’t find an mp3 of a finished version of the song. Funny enough, there’s lots of kpop on Itunes, just not this soundtrack from a movie about a kpop group. So I’m posting this here for my own reference, [...]
Stacy | July 21, 2011
Tankborn received its first press review from Kirkus! Advanced genetic engineering and upsettingly plausible caste oppression keep pages turning in this futuristic science fiction tale… A good option for science-fiction fans interested in genetic engineering, rebellion and class issues. ETA: AND TODAY you can download the first four chapters and try it out!
Stacy | July 20, 2011
A friend was telling me how he misses sitting in a cushy college library, kicking vending machines. (I’m sure that’s exactly how he said it.) It reminded me of this. But I couldn’t just share it with one person. Once again (whether you want to be or not) you are the beneficiary of my current [...]
Stacy | July 19, 2011
I’m making another book list again! I’d like to know what books you think are the most important (and give me a good reason) middle grade and YA fantasy books of all time/their time. What changed things? Which were important signifiers of culture at that time? Which were the most important in literary merit? What [...]
Stacy | July 19, 2011
Ever wonder how an editor might edit cross-culturally, or how an editor works with a cultural consultant? Not sick of hearing the story of how Tu started? Check out these interviews of me—and then go check out the rest of Doret’s and Uma’s blogs, because they’re both important voices in children’s literature right now. Interview [...]
Stacy | July 18, 2011
Writers often ask me about query letters—how to write them, what to put in them, what will hook me. The problem is that I hate query letters. I much prefer a simple cover letter with the first three chapters (NOT three chapters randomly sampled from the book). This is why my submission guidelines explicitly say, [...]
Stacy | July 17, 2011
What I’m watching: As you know, I’ve been on a Korean TV kick lately. You’re Beautiful, a HILARIOUS show about a nun candidate who takes her twin brother’s place in a boy band while he recovers from surgery. She has to hide the fact that she’s a girl from all the band members as well [...]
Stacy | July 16, 2011
I have completed a server move. A little drama, but it was so worth it. I was finally able to update WordPress to a version that actually works, and the backend of my site actually works, and everything actually WORKS! It’s gorgeous. Now it makes me want to play with the theme and see if [...]
Stacy | July 7, 2011
Just a few thoughts that combine from reading a couple recently published postapocalyptic trade books and some of the submissions I’ve been going through recently. This isn’t by any means a comprehensive list of things to think about—just a few things that struck me as a pattern in (some) recent reads (and something I notice [...]
Stacy | July 5, 2011
For those of you who submitted PARTIAL manuscripts, I am nearly up to date on everything that has come in up through June 1. I’ll post when I am, so that you’ll know that if you haven’t heard from me, the answer is no. But I’m still working my way through a few. For those [...]
Stacy Whitman, editorial director of Tu Books
