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It seems that I pour all of my writing energy into books now. And instead of social networking, I’m socializing. I miss blogging, though. I used to love it. I can’t believe that the whole Dating Amy project will be ten in 2012. Do you know some of those guys I dated still call? Mind-blowing. [...]

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Amanda Hocking, the 26-year-old Minnesota woman who published her YA paranormal romances to Kindle when she couldn’t get a traditional publishing deal and sold over a million copies on Kindle, got a $2 million four-book deal with St. Martin’s today–ironically the publisher that Eisler walked away from a $500,000 deal with a few weeks ago. [...]

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My mini bucket list is silly because 1) I am not including anything personal on it since I don’t roll that way on the Internet anymore. 2) It doesn’t have an end date and 3) It does have an end date, which is the nebulous “whenever Mad Men comes back on.” Anyway, I checked a [...]

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Good God. I’m coming into the home stretch with my young adult paranormal romance. I’ve written 175 pages in the past six weeks. That is lightning-fast for me, because I am not a speedy writer. I really wanted to get to 300 pages and finish by March 1, but sadly it looks like that is [...]

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So I’ve been laser-focused on writing this young adult paranormal book. I started on January 10 and I have about ten of the twenty-four chapters done. I see that I’ve written in my calendar under February 16: “Have YA novel done.” That’s cute. I am planning on having the first draft done by the end [...]

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My author friends are up in arms over the whole ebook thing and the decline of traditional publishing. No one knows what’s going on, including The People in New York–the publishing houses, editors, agents–and they’re the people we rely on to guide us. No one knows what the publishing landscape is going to look like [...]

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I love this blog post by urban fantasy writer Stacia Kane about how people react differently to you once you’re published. Honestly, I thought I was just being paranoid. I’ve never heard it put so clearly before. The context is how it’s hard for a writer to publicly review other author’s books once they themselves [...]

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Just wanted to write a quick update before I hide my wireless router from myself for the day so I can get some book writing done. I’m starting to feel more embarrassed than usual when people ask me how the book is going, because I keep falling in love with and then completely dropping manuscripts. [...]

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I am not what you would call a particularly fast writer. I have always been more about quality, ruminating, and yes, daydreaming. I consider myself an artist, but writing for a living is often about just cranking stuff out. Most of the full-time authors I know deal not just in quality, but in quantity–I mean [...]

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The first writing job I ever had was for a music magazine in Los Angeles. I reviewed local bands at clubs about three or four nights a week. I cannot wait to get to the part of this current memoir where I revisit those years. Half the time I bitterly complained about it–I didn’t like [...]

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