Or rather, Empress is. On audible.com, read by Lauren Davis. Cool!
Publishing
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So I was at Powell’s Hawthorne to finally get a copy of Pretty Monsters, and spotted this lovely shelftalker: Best part: Dot, who made it, was there, and I got to burble thanks at her and sign the stack of books. She said Rules is in their Valentine’s display, too — and I thought, Oh [...]
From my inbox, a question from a 17 year old: “I was wondering if you could give me advice on how to get things published.” This seems like a straightforward question, but it isn’t. So I have a bunch of answers. First, some places to send your work: Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. I won [...]
Chau asks: Is being an author financially “safe”? Does being an author carry risks that other fields do not? I suppose what I’m asking is, “What is the life of an author like”? In reverse order, again: What is the life of an author like? This is almost an impossible question to answer, because every [...]
Zoe asked me to write about how I balance my full-time job with my writing career. Here are some ways, and I’d love to hear more thoughts from those of y’all who are also balancing writing (or drawing or music or theater or…) with another job. 1. Always, always carry a notebook. You can’t control [...]
…on my lunch break: 1. You can still get tickets at the door for Rick Riordan’s talk tonight at the First Congregational Church. 2. Go read David Chelsea’s super (and rhyming!) Yard Sale comic. (Favorite bit of dialog: “Three for a quarter — that’s pretty darn low!” “You’re not buying secondhand underwear, Joe.”) 3. I [...]
Had I not finished Minders of Make-Believe: idealists, entrepreneurs, and the shaping of American children’s literature mere days before attending KidLit 08: Bridging the Worlds of Books and Blogs, I would’ve experienced the conference differently. I’m sure I would’ve enjoyed the sessions and the people I met just as much, but I wouldn’t have seen [...]
