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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

Guest Post: Things I Know with my Second Novel I Wish I’d Known with my First - Comments (6)
Five Things I’ve Learned About Being a Pre-Published Debut - Comments (13)
10 Things I Learned About Publishing from My Debut Series - Comments (3)
Agent As Patronus - Comments (6)
Choosing the Best Length for your Story - Comments (4)

Before the Deal Series

Sharing Editors’ Rejections For FOTL - Comments (37)
An Agent Or Editor Is Interested! What Next?! - Comments (13)
Guest Post: Surviving the Querying Trenches - Comments (2)
Pre-Queries And How To Avoid Them - Comments (1)
Twitter & Literary Agents: Looking Below the Social Media Surface - Comments (2)

Beginner Resources

Working on multiple projects - Comments (8)
Finding those wrong turns - Comments (6)
Crafting a Strong Beginning - Comments (10)
Some NaNoWriMo Tips From Someone Who Has Never Done NaNoWriMo - Comments (0)
Pre-Queries And How To Avoid Them - Comments (1)

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 & Giveaway: Brief Chronicle of Another Stupid Heartbreak by Adi Alsaid! - Comments (2)
Cover Reveal! The Memory of Forgotten Things by Kat Zhang! - Comments (6)
Cover Reveal! FLOWER MOON by Gina Linko–plus a guest post by the author! - Comments (0)
Cover Reveal! GIRLS IN THE MOON by Janet McNally! (Plus ARC giveaway!) - Comments (17)
Wandering Wild Cover Reveal & Giveaway - Comments (26)

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

Guest Post: Giving Up On Writing. Again. And Again. - Comments (8)
Guest Post: Who Is This Book For? - Comments (2)
Guest Post: Finding the Middle Grade Voice - Comments (6)
Guest Post: Things I Know with my Second Novel I Wish I’d Known with my First - Comments (6)
Benefits of being a hybrid author: When to self-publish and when to go the traditional route? Part Two: Self-Publishing - Comments (0)

Happy Hour

Contributing to an Anthology - Comments (0)
Cover Reveal! The Memory of Forgotten Things by Kat Zhang! - Comments (6)
Introducing Patrice Caldwell! - Comments (1)
Introducing Eric Smith! - Comments (4)
Introducing Caleb Roehrig! - Comments (3)

Industry Life

Talking Down About Others & Yourself: Three Surprising Query Letter Mistakes - Comments (2)
Kill Your Darlings - Comments (9)
The Ones That Got Away - Comments (4)
Writing Non-Fiction: Building Your Author Platform Through Publication (And a Bonus Cover Reveal!) - Comments (0)
The Query Conundrum - Comments (38)

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

Guest Post: Giving Up On Writing. Again. And Again. - Comments (8)
Knowing Yourself Better Through Writing - Comments (12)
For the writers writing sequels - Comments (14)
Making Attainable Goals - Comments (11)
Taking Writing breaks, especially when you don’t want to - Comments (7)

Interviews

INTERSECTIONALITY: A #DVPIT Blog Hop Roundtable Discussion (Part 2 of 2) - Comments (0)
Interview With Literary Agent Tamar Rydzinski - Comments (1)
Don’t Forget Your Nose—The Smell Of World Building - Comments (4)
Author Janet McNally on Writing about Music - Comments (10)
How to Cultivate a Winning Author/Blogger Relationship - Comments (20)

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

Guest Post: Giving Up On Writing. Again. And Again. - Comments (8)
The Ones That Got Away - Comments (4)
2017 Debuts’ Most Memorable Moments of Debut Year! - Comments (6)
Five Tips for the Halfway Point of NaNoWriMo - Comments (4)
Five Tips For Writing Antiheroes - Comments (4)

PubCrawl Podcast

PubCrawl Podcast: Reviews - Comments (2)
PubCrawl Podcast: Publishing Relationships - Comments (1)
PubCrawl Podcast: Crafting Characters – Narrative Arc & Change - Comments (1)
PubCrawl Podcast: Crafting Characters – Relationships - Comments (1)
PubCrawl Podcast: Creating Characters – Strengths & Weaknesses - 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

Contributing to an Anthology - Comments (0)
Cover Reveal! The Memory of Forgotten Things by Kat Zhang! - Comments (6)
Don’t Forget Your Nose—The Smell Of World Building - Comments (4)
2016 PubCrawl Releases! - Comments (0)
ARC Giveaway of IVORY AND BONE! - Comments (30)

Shameless Self-Promotion

Sharing Editors’ Rejections For FOTL - Comments (37)
PubCrawl Podcast: Wintersong - Comments (0)
In the Writers’ Room Where It Happened - Comments (2)
Wherever books are sold - Comments (1)
Sending Out Your Book Baby - Comments (2)

Speakeasy Sharing

Guest Post: Giving Up On Writing. Again. And Again. - Comments (8)
Cover Reveal & Giveaway: Brief Chronicle of Another Stupid Heartbreak by Adi Alsaid! - Comments (2)
Guest Post: Who Is This Book For? - Comments (2)
Guest Post: Finding the Middle Grade Voice - Comments (6)
Guest Post: Things I Know with my Second Novel I Wish I’d Known with my First - Comments (6)

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

Talking Down About Others & Yourself: Three Surprising Query Letter Mistakes - Comments (2)
Kill Your Darlings - Comments (9)
Writing Non-Fiction: Building Your Author Platform Through Publication (And a Bonus Cover Reveal!) - Comments (0)
The Importance (And Subjectiveness) of Comparative Titles in Querying - Comments (3)
INTERSECTIONALITY: A #DVPIT Blog Hop Roundtable Discussion (Part 2 of 2) - Comments (0)

Upcoming Titles

June 2017 Releases - Comments (1)
May 2017 Releases - Comments (1)
April 2017 Releases - Comments (0)
March 2017 Releases - Comments (1)
February 2017 Releases - Comments (0)

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

Working on multiple projects - Comments (8)
The Secret To Writing Emotionally Engaging Stories - Comments (1)
What Is Good Pacing, and Why Does It Matter? - Comments (3)
Kill Your Darlings - Comments (9)
Finding those wrong turns - Comments (6)

Writing Life

Working on multiple projects - Comments (8)
Guest Post: Giving Up On Writing. Again. And Again. - Comments (8)
Knowing Yourself Better Through Writing - Comments (12)
Finding those wrong turns - Comments (6)
To Be (Continued) or Not to Be… - 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)