Holy crap, Genesis Earth made the quarter finals for the 2011 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest! That means that it’s one of 250 other entries that will go on to the next round of voting. The grand prize is a publishing contract with Penguin for a $15k advance. I’m happy to see I’m not the… Continue reading Quarter Finalist? AAAHHHH!!!
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Blarg.
I’ve got a bad case of writer’s avoidance. It’s annoying. I wrote 1,500 words in Bringing Stella Home today, and about 800 words of outlining. That might seem like a lot, but when you consider how much free time I had today, it’s really not that much. Blarg. I’m all moved in to my new… Continue reading Blarg.
The end of an era
Today was my last writing meeting as Quark writing vp. :'( It’s been a good run, two years as leader of the Quark Writing Group at BYU. I remember how it was when I started–I was still just a hobby writer, with a nebulous interest in getting published someday but without any real goals or… Continue reading The end of an era
Revision is underway
Well, I started working on Genesis Earth 2.0 over the weekend. I’ve got to say, I’m really excited about it! I’ve gotten a lot of really useful response from my alpha readers and I’ve compiled a master draft with everyone’s comments on it. I’m reading that now, keeping a list of revisions that I need… Continue reading Revision is underway
…and they all lived evily ever after.
Today we had a quark writing group party, and it was lots of fun! We all went up to drek‘s new house, up in Draper, and read some of our really old, really bad first attempts at writing stories. Good times! Drek, Nick, lexish, slipperyjim, jakeson, gamila, aneeka, and one of my friends from the… Continue reading …and they all lived evily ever after.