On the Horizon
It hit me this weekend that Prized is coming out in a month. I’m happy about that, curious and a little anxious, too. The stakes feel higher with the second book because more people are interested in the trilogy now than when Birthmarked came out, and the potential to delight or disappoint is proportionately magnified. I’m depending more than ever on the team… Continue reading
More on Covers
A month from now when Prized comes out in the U.S., it’s also coming out in the U.K., Australia and La France. I find it cool that the covers are all different, and that the cover artists for each country not only designed one cover, but clearly planned for the subsequent covers to evolve through the series. They had to do this before the books were even written. That boggles my mind.
My editor and I have recently been discussing cover art concepts for Promised, the… Continue reading
Seeking a Small, Fictional Town
Like a lot of us in rural New England, I come from a small town where we value our farmer’s markets, town festivals, and libraries. People think we’re not as friendly as Southerners, or as wholesome as Midwesterners, or as laidback as our counterparts in the West, but just as they don’t all match their stereotypes, we New Englanders are not all brainy, aloof types.
I sometimes wonder how much a writer’s place of living has to do with what she writes. I don’t mean just scenic details… Continue reading
Spain (Birthmarked in!)
Here’s the cover of Birthmarked in Spain, where it came out yesterday. It’s sweet to see the same U.S. artwork used with another language.
From the Everest site:
En un mundo futuro agostado por el sol inclemente, donde el agua es más valiosa que el oro, hay quienes viven dentro de las murallas del Enclave y quienes, como Gaia Stone, comadrona de dieciséis años, viven extramuros. Gaia siempre ha creído que su deber, como el de su madre, es entregar una pequeña cuota de bebés saludables a los residentes… Continue reading
Beauty Librarian Contest
One of our big tourist attractions in this neck of the woods is the Mohegan Sun Casino, which naturally makes me think of librarians. They all go together: gambling, second-hand smoke, glamour, live bands, and librarians. Small-talking in line for the bar, I discovered I’m not the only one to find this combination delightfully absurd.
Last Thursday, the CT Authors Trail had its culminating event in the casino’s Cabaret Theater, just past the no-smoking slots, and while the highlight of the evening was listening to author Jane… Continue reading
Friends and Writers at the BBF
What most surprised me about the Brooklyn Book Festival was how big it was, and how many people were meandering around looking at books, reading on the steps, and filling up the chairs for the panels. At first, it was too much to take in, but once I had a map and saw where the Youth Stoop stage was, I had my landmark for the day.
I enjoyed being on the… Continue reading