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February is Pitchapalooza!
The Book Doctors are back with the second-annual Pitchapalooza for Wrimos. Read on to get the lowdown from them on what this means, and how you can participate!
You wrote your 50,000 words (or got pretty close!). You’re a winner. You’ve been congratulated. You felt the high. But here’s the 64-gigabyte question: What do you plan to do with your one wild and precious manuscript?
2011 Books in Review
in 2011
67- Books read
58- Young Adult books
3- Middle Grade Books
6- Adult Books
16- Books started and abandoned
Top 10 books: (This is tough)
1. The Iron Knight by Julie Kagawa
2. Alcatraz and the Evil Librarians by Brandon Sanderson
3. Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
4. Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
5. Divergent by Veronica Roth
6. Matched by Ally Condie
7. Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green & David Levithan
8. Blood Magic by Tessa Gratton
9. The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
10. Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan (this could have been first except for his horrible habit of leaving nail biting cliffhangers)
Goals for 2012:
I have a serious YA addiction (and I need MORE!).
I need to read more Middle Grade.
Maybe add a few more Adult books in there also.
Finish one Jane Austen novel.
Most Eagerly Anticipated of 2012:
1. Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare
2. A Million Suns by Beth Revis
3. Black Heart by Holly Black
4. Insurgent by Veronica Roth
5. Isla and the Happily Ever After by Stephanie Perkins
6. Out of Sight, Out of Time by Ally Carter
7. The Immortal Rules by Julie Kagawa
8. The Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan
9. City of Lost Souls by Cassandra Clare
10. Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore
Living →
Maggie Stiefvater just wrote an excellent post about the importance of education while being a writer, whether it’s formal or informal. And she had a quote that I exceptionally loved:
“I spent several hours every evening writing, and when I wasn’t writing, I was reading, and when I wasn’t reading, I was living…”
I love this quote! And maybe it’s the kick in the butt I need. I’m doing the Reading. But I’m not doing the Living. And because I’m not living, I don’t think I’m doing the writing.
My days consist of going to work,which I love dearly and I’m so thankful everyday I went to Library School. But when I get home, I stop living. I usually park my butt on the sofa, turn on the TV, plant my laptop on my lap, and munch on what ever candy or chip bag is closest to me. (This definitely helps explain how I got to the size I am, but that’s a whole other issue I don’t want to think about.) And then once it gets really late I try to work up the energy to turn everything off, hoist myself off the sofa, and go to bed (where I read for at least half an hour).
Nowhere in there is there any living. And my weekends are essentially the same as my after school extracurricular activities. In other words: nothing.
So, how is this living?
I can’t say I’m not making any type of impact on the world, because I know I’m doing that at work. I guess more importantly is what impact am I making on me? What do I need to change to start living?
Behold - the fanciest thing I own, a box full of Advance Readers’ Copies of TEAM HUMAN, a book that Justine Larbalestier and I wrote, which will not be out until JULY! Would you LIKE one?
It is about that first time in school when your best girlfriend has a boyfriend and she loves him SO MUCH and she talks about him ALL THE TIME… and also, he is a vampire.
Seemed a good idea to start tumblring with a FANCY GIVEAWAY!
If this gets reblogged 100 times, I shall put all who did so in a hat for one of these fine fancy things…
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