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Holiday Hiatus! - Comments (0)
Introducing Sona Charaipotra! - Comments (3)
Holiday Hiatus - Comments (0)
Introducing Kelly Van Sant! - Comments (2)
Introducing Hannah Fergesen! - Comments (7)

After the... Series

Keeping Secrets in the Publishing Industry - Comments (2)
Happy Birthday, KINGDOM OF THE BLAZING PHOENIX! - Comments (3)
Remember To Celebrate the Small Joys - Comments (9)
How I Use Social Media As An Author - Comments (10)
Guest Post: Things I Know with my Second Novel I Wish I’d Known with my First - Comments (6)

Before the Deal Series

Keeping Secrets in the Publishing Industry - Comments (2)
Trends Never Die - Comments (1)
Sharing Editors’ Rejections For FOTL - Comments (37)
An Agent Or Editor Is Interested! What Next?! - Comments (14)
Guest Post: Surviving the Querying Trenches - Comments (2)

Beginner Resources

A Few Gift Ideas for Your Readers - Comments (5)
Adding to Your Writer’s Arsenal: School Visits - Comments (2)
Plot, PoV and Agenda. Or: Is This Your Story to Tell? - Comments (7)
My Cut Material File and How it Frees Me - Comments (14)
Preparing for public speaking - Comments (2)

Book Recommendations

Don’t Forget Your Nose—The Smell Of World Building - Comments (4)
You Tell Us: What’s Your Go-to Book Recommendation? - Comments (6)
Girl Friendships in YA - Comments (4)
Memorable Fictional Teachers - Comments (3)
Books to Movies - Comments (1)

Brewing Topics

INTERSECTIONALITY: A #DVPIT Blog Hop Roundtable Discussion (Part 2 of 2) - Comments (0)
INTERSECTIONALITY: A #DVPIT Blog Hop Roundtable Discussion (Part 1 of 2) - Comments (4)
Once You’ve Finished Reading - Comments (2)
Twitter & Literary Agents: Looking Below the Social Media Surface - Comments (2)
Should Books Make Us Uncomfortable - Comments (1)

Cover Reveal

Cover Reveal: The Skylark’s Song by J.M. Frey - Comments (0)
On Getting Query Help: Erica Boyce’s The Fifteen Wonders of Daniel Green, From Critique to Book Deal (And a Bonus Cover Reveal) - Comments (4)
Cover Reveal: Lauren Morrill’s Better Than the Best Plan - Comments (4)
Cover Reveal & Giveaway: Brief Chronicle of Another Stupid Heartbreak by Adi Alsaid! - Comments (2)
Cover Reveal! The Memory of Forgotten Things by Kat Zhang! - Comments (6)

Giveaways

Cover Reveal & Giveaway: Brief Chronicle of Another Stupid Heartbreak by Adi Alsaid! - Comments (2)
Cover Reveal! The Memory of Forgotten Things by Kat Zhang! - Comments (6)
Author Janet McNally on Writing about Music - Comments (10)
It Is Decidedly So - Comments (27)
Why Are We Here? - Comments (11)

Guest Post

Switching Genres - Comments (0)
Navigating the Switch Between Prose Novels and Graphic Novels - Comments (2)
Research, Research, Research: How to Write Historical Fiction - Comments (3)
Guest Post: Giving Up On Writing. Again. And Again. - Comments (8)
Guest Post: Who Is This Book For? - Comments (2)

Happy Hour

Happy Birthday, KINGDOM OF THE BLAZING PHOENIX! - Comments (3)
Introducing Sarah Gerton! - Comments (4)
Introducing Scott Reintgen! - Comments (1)
Remember To Celebrate the Small Joys - Comments (9)
Book release checklist! - Comments (3)

Industry Life

Keeping Secrets in the Publishing Industry - Comments (2)
Beating the Book Two Blues - Comments (2)
Happy Birthday, KINGDOM OF THE BLAZING PHOENIX! - Comments (3)
Taking Advantage of Our Unpublished Work - Comments (3)
Trends Never Die - Comments (1)

Industry News

The Elephant in the Industry - Comments (4)
I Don’t like… - Comments (2)
Discussing Race/Sexuality in Reviews - Comments (13)
April 2014 Releases! - Comments (17)
February & March 2014 Releases! - Comments (4)

Inspiration

Some encouragement. - Comments (10)
Happy Birthday, KINGDOM OF THE BLAZING PHOENIX! - Comments (3)
Taking Advantage of Our Unpublished Work - Comments (3)
Are You Afraid of the Dark? - Comments (4)
How To Fight Blocked Creativity - Comments (6)

Interviews

Introducing . . . AMINAH MAE SAFI! - Comments (2)
INTERSECTIONALITY: A #DVPIT Blog Hop Roundtable Discussion (Part 2 of 2) - Comments (0)
Interview With Literary Agent Tamar Rydzinski - Comments (2)
Don’t Forget Your Nose—The Smell Of World Building - Comments (4)
Author Janet McNally on Writing about Music - Comments (10)

Last Call

Last Call: Red by Alison Cherry - Comments (3)
Last Call: Far, Far Away by Tom McNeal - Comments (6)
Last Call: I Am Not a Serial Killer by Dan Wells - Comments (4)
Last Call: Proxy by Alex London - Comments (31)
Last Call: The End Games by T. Michael Martin - Comments (2)

Market Trends

More Hands in the Kitchen: Karuna Riazi on Baking Her Debut With a Book Packager - Comments (0)
PubCrawl Podcast: Introduction to Genre - Comments (0)
Violence in YA - Comments (3)
Should Award Winners Also Be Popular? - Comments (3)
Binge Reading - Comments (7)

Miscellaneous

Why book events are awesome (and some tips for pulling them off)! - Comments (1)
A Few Gift Ideas for Your Readers - Comments (5)
Writing friends are the best - Comments (2)
Switching Genres - Comments (0)
Are You Afraid of the Dark? - Comments (4)

PubCrawl Podcast

Pubcrawl Podcast: Announcement – First Pages Live Show - Comments (0)
PubCrawl Podcast: Updates & Announcements! - Comments (0)
PubCrawl Podcast: Reviews - Comments (2)
PubCrawl Podcast: Publishing Relationships - Comments (1)
PubCrawl Podcast: Crafting Characters – Narrative Arc & Change - Comments (1)

Question of the Month

QOTM: All about Villains! - Comments (7)
Back-to-School Reading Recs - Comments (13)
Favorite Opening Lines/Paragraphs - Comments (10)
Best of: Antiheros - Comments (33)
Pay It Forward: Books That Inspire - Comments (34)

Reader Questions

Post-Contract Schedules - Comments (3)
QOTM: All about Villains! - Comments (7)
Switching Genres — Can it hurt your author brand? - Comments (14)
Adding New Ideas vs. Knowing When to Streamline - Comments (7)
Writing 3-Dimensional Characters - Comments (10)

Shameless Self-Promotion

Happy Birthday, KINGDOM OF THE BLAZING PHOENIX! - Comments (3)
Remember To Celebrate the Small Joys - Comments (9)
Book release checklist! - Comments (3)
Contributing to an Anthology - Comments (0)
Cover Reveal! The Memory of Forgotten Things by Kat Zhang! - Comments (6)

Shameless Self-Promotion

Remember To Celebrate the Small Joys - Comments (9)
On Getting Query Help: Erica Boyce’s The Fifteen Wonders of Daniel Green, From Critique to Book Deal (And a Bonus Cover Reveal) - Comments (4)
Sharing Editors’ Rejections For FOTL - Comments (37)
PubCrawl Podcast: Wintersong - Comments (0)
In the Writers’ Room Where It Happened - Comments (2)

Speakeasy Sharing

Switching Genres - Comments (0)
Introducing . . . AMINAH MAE SAFI! - Comments (2)
Navigating the Switch Between Prose Novels and Graphic Novels - Comments (2)
Research, Research, Research: How to Write Historical Fiction - Comments (3)
Cover Reveal: The Skylark’s Song by J.M. Frey - Comments (0)

TGIF

Fixing Fictional Mothers - Comments (10)
The Rest of the Best MG & YA Books of 2015 - Comments (1)
Reading Goals - Comments (17)
PubCrawl Podcast: Recommended Reads of 2015 - Comments (4)
Agony! Misery! Woe! - Comments (6)

Tips From Industry Pros

Taking Advantage of Our Unpublished Work - Comments (3)
Adding to Your Writer’s Arsenal: School Visits - Comments (2)
Filling the Blank Page - Comments (2)
On Getting Query Help: Erica Boyce’s The Fifteen Wonders of Daniel Green, From Critique to Book Deal (And a Bonus Cover Reveal) - Comments (4)
Talking Down About Others & Yourself: Three Surprising Query Letter Mistakes - Comments (2)

Upcoming Titles

Happy Birthday, KINGDOM OF THE BLAZING PHOENIX! - Comments (3)
June 2017 Releases - Comments (1)
May 2017 Releases - Comments (1)
April 2017 Releases - Comments (0)
March 2017 Releases - Comments (1)

Week in Review

Week in Review - Comments (9)

Weekend Special

The Best of Pub Crawl 2012 - Comments (11)
The Assassin and the Pirate Lord by Sarah J. Maas - Comments (56)

What We're Reading

The Rest of the Best MG & YA Books of 2015 - Comments (1)
Reading Goals - Comments (17)
PubCrawl Podcast: Recommended Reads of 2015 - Comments (4)
What We’re Reading Now - Comments (6)
It’s the Weekend: What We’re Reading! - Comments (2)

Writers Toolbox

Deep Breath— There’s No Such Thing As A Waste - Comments (5)
A Few Gift Ideas for Your Readers - Comments (5)
Beating the Book Two Blues - Comments (2)
Your Characters Should Want Things - Comments (4)
Taking Advantage of Our Unpublished Work - Comments (3)

Writing Life

Deep Breath— There’s No Such Thing As A Waste - Comments (5)
Keeping Secrets in the Publishing Industry - Comments (2)
Some encouragement. - Comments (10)
A Few Gift Ideas for Your Readers - Comments (5)
Beating the Book Two Blues - Comments (2)

You Tell Us

What Your Hogwarts House Says About How and Why You Write - Comments (13)
You Tell Us–What Are Your Favorite Writing Quotes? - Comments (23)
You Tell Us: What’s Your Go-to Book Recommendation? - Comments (6)
My Favorite Book - Comments (3)
Should Award Winners Also Be Popular? - Comments (3)