BIW member Ele is involved in an interesting venture called Virtual Book Tour. It’s a convenient way of using the internet to connect with more readers and fans than a regular bookstore tour allows. You can learn about the latest tour through either of these two links: Blog Book Tours Lens Blog Tours Blog Don’t […]
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The Value of a Plot Consultant
Guest Blogger: Candie Moonshower Candie Moonshower is the author of The Legend of Zoey (Delacorte Press), which won the SCBWI Sue Alexander Most Promising New Work Award. In 2008, her biography of young adult author Vivian Vande Velde will be published by Enslow Press. When not rushing to meet deadlines as a regional business writer, […]
Kiran Desai Wins Man Booker
Is it me, or are more younger people being recognized as great writers sooner? Last night at an awards dinner for the Man Booker Prize for fiction the youngest winner to ever win was announced. Kiran Desai is a 35 year
Elizabeth Crook – Author Interview
Austin, Texas is the home of this full time writer who has been writing for “as long as I can remember”. Her husband, two “terrific” children and a Korean exchange student are a delightful distraction from her writing.
Lisa Selin Davis – Author Interview
In 1999 freelance writer Lisa Selin Davis started writing “seriously”. The result? A continuous flow of article and prose publications. It seems only natural that the next step for this Brooklyn, New York writer would be commercial publication with Little, Brown