Like a Virgin: Second Drafts
The great thing about the first draft is that it can be as stupid as you want. All you have to do is type shit into the keyboard. Then, after 80k words (or, you know, whatever) and one month to…
YA WEDNESDAY: New YA Novels Releasing This Fall, Do We Need a YA Canon, Buffy Studies, and the Manic Pixie Dream Girl (or Boy) YA Trope
I love autumn—the sweet smell of wood-smoke, pumpkins everywhere, trees laden with ripe apples and pears, the radiant bursts of red and orange that make me go wow on a regular basis. As Keats said, autumn truly is the “Season…
An Interview with Lauren Groff, Author of Fates and Furies
Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies elbowed out some of its competition last Wednesday when the National Book Award announced its 2015 finalists, but of any writer I know, I don’t expect such adulation to go to Groff’s head. I first…
Friday Feast: Questions to Ask During “The Call,” Submission Secrets, Book PR Lead Time, Fiction vs. Fact, and Awesome Places Ruined by Popular Books
Happy Friday, folks. Apple picking season is in full effect here at Dead Darlings headquarters in Boston. And much like those daytrippers who peruse the sweet and tangy offerings of bucolic family farms, I’m up to my ears in fantastic bookish…
Why Not to Work on Your Novel
I assume if you are reading this blog, you either have been or currently are in the middle of the long slog that is writing a novel. I am. I’m in year three, and still I don’t see an end….
YA Wednesday: FanFic Via Kindle Worlds, Rainbow Rowell’s FanFic Novel, Teens’ FanFic Faves, and the Largest Index of FanFic in the World!
We’re all familiar with fan fiction now, thanks to Fifty Shades of Grey, which began its steamy life as Twilight fan fiction, but did you know that some consider the Bible the earliest form of fan fiction? A 2012 article…