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Tallahassee’s first KidLit Drink Night: SO much fun!

Posted in angele's posts, KidLit Drink Night Tallahassee, stuff we love, tagged , , , , on February 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

We had a wonderful turn-out at our inaugural KidLit Drink Night last night – thanks so much to all the readers, writers, teachers and just plain delightful Tallahasseans who joined us for drinks, tasty treats and lots of book-alicious conversation. We’ll be doing it again in March, so stay tuned for all the details on [...]

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KidLit Drink Night is coming to Tallahassee!

Posted in angele's posts, KidLit Drink Night Tallahassee, tagged , , , , , , on January 21, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Okay, admit it – you’re totally jealous of all those super cool New Yorkers who get together for monthly YA-licious book chat + tasty adult beverages. The one time I was able to join them (lucky me being in town for the SCBWI Winter Conference), I spent the entire evening in blissful, awestruck rapture. I [...]

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CANDOR by Pam Bachorz

Posted in books we love, heather's posts, tagged , , , , , , on March 30, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Wouldn’t life be great if it was easy to make the “right” choices? If you had everything you needed and everyone was always happy? If crime was non-existent and the streets litter-free? That’s life in the town of Candor, from the book CANDOR by first-time novelist Pam Bachorz. The catch? Your thoughts aren’t your own. [...]

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A CURSE DARK AS GOLD by Elizabeth C. Bunce

Posted in angele's posts, books we love, editors we love, on writing, publishers we love, revisions, writers we love, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Years ago, I read with great interest author Elizabeth Bunce‘s posts on the SCBWI discussion boards about selling A Curse Dark as Gold to Arthur A. Levine Books. When her book was published in 2008, I put it on my “to read” list…where it kept company with the dozens already there. See where this is going [...]

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Revision is Tough Love #1: Break free from past drafts with a plot outline

Posted in heather's posts, on writing, Revision is Tough Love, revisions, tagged , , , , , , , , on March 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Writers often use plot outlines when planning a story, but this week I discovered how they can help in revising an existing manuscript. My YA novel is currently in its third draft. With each version, I had gone through the manuscript cutting and reworking scenes to make significant plot and character changes. The changes were [...]

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Serendipity and Creative Philanthropy

Posted in advice we love, angele's posts, blogs we love, on writing, revisions, tagged , , , , , , , on February 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

I’m a sucker for serendipity – that instant magic of meeting the perfect person at the perfect time or stumbling across the most brilliant idea exactly when you need it most. I’m an even bigger devotee of  creative, insanely personal philanthropy. I adore that flavor of giving that inspires us to snub simply sending a [...]

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Welcome to Red Eye Writers

Posted in angele's posts, musings, tagged , , , , , on December 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Every Monday night, the Red Eye Writers hook up around a big ol’ wooden (and sometimes wobbly) table to chit chat, to critique, to commiserate, but most of all, to create. For those few (way too few!) hours a week, we write and write and write, each of us feeding off the collective inspiration (and, [...]

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