My dear friend Heather Dixon is hosting a coloring contest on her blog. Her book, ENTWINED, came out at the end of last month and it is just fantastic. The pictures are girls from the story, and she has the contest open to different age groups (go and print them off for your kids because […]
book review: The Dark and Hollow Place by Carrie Ryan
Ryan, Carrie. The Dark and Hollow Places. Delacrote Books for Young Readers; March 22, 2011. **I got some Carrie Ryan swag when I went to her book signing – I’ll pick a winner from whoever comments on this post!** Similar books: I Am Not a Serial Killer by Dan Wells; Wither by Lauren DeStefano; Shiver […]
First Line Contest Winners Announced
Here are some of the trends we noticed: Death /killing/dying: 12 Mentions of underwear: 2 Mentions of a god: 3 Mention of knives: 2 Shortest: 1 word [running] Longest: 32 words Mentions of drool: 2 Waking up: 3 And without further ado, the WINNERS! First Place: Kalen O’Donnell For my sixteenth birthday, my oldest brother […]
in which I follow my own advice…
So I decided to listen to my own advice (I generally try to do this, I swear!) by revising my first page for The Last Onest (or TLO). Back in July 2010, I encouraged my readers to revise their first page. To recap, it was after I’d listened to Ally Condie speak. At the WIFYR […]
how to create a character binder or THE BINDER OF DOOM
So I’m a neurotic planner when it comes to my books. And possibly about life, but let’s disregard that for the moment. So I have this BINDER OF DOOM and it is my life. Well, the life of my TLO story (the one for Invisible is blue). It’s quite thick, and has all of the […]
Chersti Nieveen 