Misty Massey
Today we’re delighted to host Maggie Stiefvater, author of the upcoming young adult fantasy Shiver. Maggie’s already released one young adult novel, LAMENT , a YA urban fantasy about homicidal faeries, whose sequel, BALLAD, comes out later this year. Her new release, SHIVER, is a YA fantasy about werewolves in love. In [...]
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  Loading ...Find or Become a Beta Reader      | I’ve been thinking on and off about professional envy for a couple weeks now. We all face it, regardless of where we stand on the pro writer ladder, all the way from unpublished up to NYT Bestseller. There’s always someone writing something we wish we’d thought of, or someone whose wordsmithing is just so entirely different, [...] Building on the elevator pitch… At the conference you got a request from the agent/editor of your choice. You celebrated. (You did celebrate, didn’t you? A drink at the bar, a chocolate bar, a salad bar, whatever, but you must celebrate every step of the way!) Now you have to send a query/proposal letter, perhaps the [...] I am not someone who can handle complete silence. After a few minutes, I start hearing every creak of the house, every bird outside, and I lose every bit of concentration I might have had. I’ve always been this way. When I was a kid, I could study far more effectively if [...] Greetings from the road. By the time you read this, I’ll be in the Big Apple. But I that doesn’t mean that I can’t post here at MW — ah, the wonders of modern technology. You couldn’t do this with 19th century blogs, you know…. How do I balance work and time off? I’m on vacation [...] This, in many ways, becomes the flip side of all the ranting I’ve been doing about spending your own money to publish. So let it be known I can be hypocritical, or something. Several weeks ago a friend commented on the fact that while I feel very strongly that writers shouldn’t go the vanity [...] | This is a 2D-barcode containing the address of our mobile site.If your mobile has a barcode reader, simply snap this bar code with the camera and launch the site. Many companies provide barcode readers that you can install on your mobile, and all of the following are compatible with this format: | ||
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