You SEND Me, Honest You Do

Posted Nov 19 2010 in

A few weeks ago, Twitter sister Jeannie Moon, who works as a school librarian by day, asked me if I’d be interested in letting a few of her students have a go at my YA manuscript, SEND. I leaped at the opportunity to get feedback from my target audience and happily sent SEND (ha). Jeannie […]

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More great than it is small…

Posted Nov 18 2010 in

Book Hungry is at it again. This month’s pick: All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot, a book about the misadventures of a country vet in Yorkshire, England, set in the forties. The book gets its title from this quote, a hymn actually: All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All […]

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NaNoWriMo: Day 11

Posted Nov 11 2010 in

At almost the half-way point of the insanity that is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), I have hit a wall in my project  – something that typically happens when I try to write without an outline. What’s different this time is that I MUST push through, tunnel under, or climb over this wall in order […]

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WTF did I get myself into?

Posted Nov 1 2010 in

Today is November 1st.  If you’re online, then you know today marks the start of NANOWRIMO, or National Novel Writing Month, a month in which already-crazy writerly types attempt to pen an entire novel (50,000 words) in thirty days. This is my first NANOWRIMO and I’m already frantic.  I don’t know what made me sign […]

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