by Jan Lewis | Apr 26, 2013 | Imported from AYAP
Kiki Strike’s first brush with mortality occurred shortly after her birth, when her entire family was poisoned by a wig-wearing, power-hungry aunt. Since then, the girl mastermind/kung-fu movie star/renegade princess has cheated death on countless occasions. So as you...
by Jan Lewis | Apr 25, 2013 | Imported from AYAP
Here’s a question for you. What’s on the bucket list of a guy who’s been dead for 150 years? Nathaniel Pierce is a casualty of the Battle of Gettysburg, but he wasn’t killed by enemy fire. Nope, he was murdered, and his spirit has wandered in a desperate quest to...
by Martina Boone | Apr 24, 2013 | Imported from AYAP
Good writing advice inspires me to sit down and fit words on paper. Bad advice makes me nervous that I’m doing something wrong. Good advice sings, makes me want to hum its tune like Jerome Stern’s MAKING SHAPELY FICTION, Stephen King’s ON WRITING, and Anne Lamott’s...
by Jan Lewis | Apr 23, 2013 | Imported from AYAP
Confession. When I first started writing HOW I LOST YOU, I titled it, Buds Before Studs. That’s probably about as bad as a book title can be. I am ashamed. I hang my head. But, in my defense and from experience, I knew that the good folks at Sourcebooks Fire would...
by Jan Lewis | Apr 22, 2013 | Imported from AYAP
First lines are like the lamp-post. Not a lamp-post, the lamp-post, the most important lamp-post in the whole of literature. The one which first greets Lucy Pevensie as she pushes her way through a pile of winter coats, and into Narnia. It’s such a famous scene to us...
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