Sunday, February 27, 2011
To Feed My Reading Addiction...
Maggie Stiefvater (uber fabulous writer of Shiver, Linger, Forever) has an awesome blog and an awesome book giveaway going on!! Go check out her blog and facebook page... She's always updating it with cool insight to her crazy writer life :) Enter the giveaway! *I hope I can snag a few books myself* ;)
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Word count
2,000 words done today. Wahoo! Its 2:30am. The MS is weighin' in at about 44,500ish words right now. I can't wait till it has a solid beginning, middle, and end. It does already, but I mean that actually flows and make sense 8-) Then I can rip it apart and make it better. Yeah baby. I'm getting ready for red markers and too much chocolate. LOL. Oh, btw! I got a runner's up prize from Aprilynne Pike's blog! I'm getting goodies. YUM!
Playing Around: Rough Book Covers for my Novel...
See what happens when you have writer's block? You play with pictures... =) If I ever get published, I won't really have any say with cover art so I figured I could play with it now...
The first one is actually from Fernanda Brussi's portfolio (the cover artist for Lauren Kate's Fallen). Now, when I get published I hope I have a dazzling cover artist that will do 100x better than these... but after seeing quite a few books with mediocre covers, I wonder if many authors are disappointed with their cover art when they see it. Hmmm. Wouldn't that suck? You pour your heart into a book and then have no say how it looks in the end? Oh well. I guess that is how it works. It's fun to hear when publishers let authors actually be involved in the creative design process... Know some amazing cover artists? Know of a fun cover art/author story?
The first one is actually from Fernanda Brussi's portfolio (the cover artist for Lauren Kate's Fallen). Now, when I get published I hope I have a dazzling cover artist that will do 100x better than these... but after seeing quite a few books with mediocre covers, I wonder if many authors are disappointed with their cover art when they see it. Hmmm. Wouldn't that suck? You pour your heart into a book and then have no say how it looks in the end? Oh well. I guess that is how it works. It's fun to hear when publishers let authors actually be involved in the creative design process... Know some amazing cover artists? Know of a fun cover art/author story?
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Err, ADD much?
WHAT I'M READING:
THE REPLACEMENT BY BRENNA YOVANOFF
UGLIES BY SCOTT WESTERFIELD
&
UNWIND BY NEAL SHUSTERMAN
WHAT I'M LISTENING TO:
RON POPE - A DROP IN THE OCEAN
PINK - F*ING PERFECT
KILLERS - MR BRIGHTSIDE (ACOUSTIC)
WHAT I SHOULD BE DOING:
WRITING!!!!
Ever get ADD? What pulls you away from your writing? What *distractions* actually help you write? Have a writing playlist?
Want to feed my ADD? What are you reading? =) What are you listening to?
THE REPLACEMENT BY BRENNA YOVANOFF
UGLIES BY SCOTT WESTERFIELD
&
UNWIND BY NEAL SHUSTERMAN
WHAT I'M LISTENING TO:
RON POPE - A DROP IN THE OCEAN
PINK - F*ING PERFECT
KILLERS - MR BRIGHTSIDE (ACOUSTIC)
WHAT I SHOULD BE DOING:
WRITING!!!!
Ever get ADD? What pulls you away from your writing? What *distractions* actually help you write? Have a writing playlist?
Want to feed my ADD? What are you reading? =) What are you listening to?
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Favorite Book Cover?
Alrighty, ladies and gents... what is YOUR favorite book cover? I am convinced that we do judge a book by it's cover and if it sucks, errr... not buying it (unless I know it is going to be awesome :)
I have a few I l-o-v-e. Some that come to mind are:
What are your favorite book covers?
I have a few I l-o-v-e. Some that come to mind are:
What are your favorite book covers?
Monday, February 14, 2011
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