Children's Fiction and Nonfiction
Fellow Elevensies Kathy McCullough, Shawn Goodman, and Randy Russell have put together a pretty cool site for young writers called the Young Writers Notebook. They’re still in the beta testing stage–with a planned official launch in September. But, if you’re a teen writer (or know of one) who’d like to help them test what works and what doesn’t, hop on over to the Notebook site.
Today the delightful Kelsey Jones is featuring an interview with me on her blog, The Book Scout.
Marshall Cavendish had it’s launch / marketing meeting for my book earlier this week. And we have a pub date! Or at least a month. MEMENTO NORA will be coming out in April 2011.
While I have your attention, I put this trailer together a few months ago. What do you think?
I’m not normally an artsy-craftsy girl, and I can’t really draw. But, I have hit upon a crafty way that helps me visualize the characters and elements of my novel(s).
I have a notebook for each book. (A sturdy black notebook one with gridlines and color-coded sections. These notebooks remind me of the engineering lab books at KSC. ) In each book, I use a combination of images from magazines, the web, or stock photo places, sketches, and notes to cobble together my vision for that book.
For characters, I usually end up with a collage. Seldom do you find your vision of a character right there in Wired or Entertainment Weekly. So I may take the general looks of one image and combine it with the attitude of another. Since MEMENTO NORA has so many visual (and a few scientific) elements, I created pages for different settings and the weird and wonderful stuff therein.