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Getting Personal! Gate Crashers’ Author Interviews
Getting Real With Real Authors If it isn’t personal, what the heck is it? Author Interviews That Rock! Jay Kristoff STORMDANCER HERE’S THE BLURB! A DYING LAND The Shima Imperium verges on the brink of...
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The Writing Student Perspective: Seeing in the Mind
Columbia College Chicago Hey folks. I’m a senior in the Fiction Writing program at Columbia College Chicago and every once in awhile I’ll post from the “Writing Student Perspective.” I’ve always been a...
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Student Writer’s Perspective – Bias
Get any group of writers together for any extended period of time and inevitably the classic question will come up. What was the first book to make a significant impact on you? Being someone who loves...
View Article“Younglings, Younglings, Gather ‘Round”
We all dream of finding our Yoda, the all-knowing Jedi master who will teach us the ways of “The Craft”. So we jump in, ready to take on the publishing world with this powerful force – the literary...
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Student Writer’s Perspective – The How To
One of the most useful forms I’ve used to jumpstart my understanding of a character or a situation is the “How-To” form. It’s exactly what it sounds like and chances are you’ve written variations of it...
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What’s Your USP?
Last week, my agent tweeted 140 characters of Really Brilliant Stuff. But Really Brilliant Stuff can be hard to explain in so few characters, so I will expound. Here it is… #bbpBox_301051311917502464 a...
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Student Writer’s Perspective – Rejection
I wonder if it has a gas station. Imagine taking a piece of yourself, a small sliver of your soul even, and sending it out to several strangers in the hopes that they will validate it and want to help...
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tech yourself: two cloud apps you can hop on from any device
The Cloud, The Cloud, it’s all a big scary thing with the accounts and the big fat hairy i which means Apple and maybe you don’t have Appley products and maybe you do and maybe you have an iPhone but...
View ArticleThe Ins & Outs of Copyedits
Last week, my debut thriller graduated from revisions to copyedits. When I first learned that NEARLY GONE’s final revision had been accepted by my editor, I sang it from the rooftops. “I’m going to...
View ArticleThe Responsibility of Kidlit Writers
They say tragedy comes in threes. Since last Thursday there have been three deaths of young people that I had either known since childhood or knew through association. The first was a boy I’ve known...
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Tech Yourself: Vine and Instagram Video–Go Where the Young Adults Are
Posting a photo to your Twitter or Tumblr isn’t enough anymore. Your picture’s gotta move. Or talk. Or read the future. As YA writers, we are all busy, um, WRITING. But if we want to reach our fans...
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SCINTILLATE Cover Reveal! We love Tracy Clark
We’re proud to reveal Tracy Clark’s SCINTILLATE cover! Coming out February 2014 from Entangled Teen Ember. The low down SCINTILLATE Author: Tracy Clark Release Date: February 4, 2014 Publisher:...
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A NaNoWriMo toolkit: practical tip, apps, & playlists
In lieu of the Ink Rally, this year I’m signing up for the insanity that is National Novel Writing Month. In part because I am that crazy, but in part because of the vibrant NaNo community in my home...
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NEARLY GONE Website Launch & Giveaway
We have a lot of talent here at I&A. One we’re particularly proud of is our in-house web designer extraordinaire, Tessa Elwood, founder of Pop Color. Her author websites are fast becoming the talk...
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NaNoWriMo: first week motivation
It’s day 4 of NaNoWriMo! And we’re already feeling it! The pressure! So maybe life does feel a little overwhelming, but don’t worry—help is on the way. The Secret Life of Writers have 10 tips to pull...
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Tech Yourself: Five Relaxing Apps to Keep You Going
HEY YOU! YEAH, I’M LOOKIN’ AT YOU! You’re out there writing and blogging and NaNoWriMoing and querying and subbing and rejectified and deadlined… YOU NEED TO RELAX. Here are five iPhone apps that will...
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Selfies: controlling the narration
So out in the world while I wasn’t paying attention, the Oxford Dictionary chose “Selfie” as its Word of the Year. Then my feeds all went anti-selfie insane, with a few rebuttals sprinkled in. Most...
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The Graduate: Rewriting
A couple weeks ago, I completed my Fiction Writing degree with Columbia College Chicago. When I started in Fiction Writing, I had no real rewriting “process” to speak of. I did a lot of rewriting as I...
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Absence Makes the Mind Grow Clearer (But Just How Much Absence Is Enough?)
I&A is proud to feature monthly guest posts from the Firehouse Five! Guest post by Lisa Cindrich One familiar bit of writing advice recommends that, after finishing a manuscript, you should put it...
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Last week, my debut thriller graduated from revisions to copyedits. When I first learned that NEARLY GONE’s final revision had been accepted by my editor, I sang it from the rooftops. “I’m going to...
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