Three (Writing) Reads and a Giveaway

Unforgettable Settings continued!

The Bookshelf Muse: Creating Unforgettable Settings, Part 4

I’m heading to our local SCWBI Social tomorrow night. Part of it is going to include a round table discussion about strengthening scenes in your novels. I’m bring to the table...micro-tension, something I learned about when I attended Donald Maass’s workshops at the Surrey International Writer’s Conference a couple of years ago. Here is an information blog post about it :

wordswimmer: Beachtalk with Donald Maass: On Creating Micro-tension

And just came across this post from Critically Yours. All about Creating Independent Characters. Liked that she shared what E.M. Forrester once said...good stuff.


Critically Yours: Creating independent characters

The Giveaway (it’s massive!). This one is U.S. only, ends January 31, 2010 and is well worth entering if you can and if you can’t, help spread the word, buy L.K. Madigan’s books, order them for your library! I read Flash Burnout when it came out and can attest to it’s quality and that it’s one to recommend to teens. I will be sure to get it and The Mermaid’s Mirror for my new library (and my own collection). Yeah, what the 2009 Debuts are doing is made of awesome...it’s one of the reasons I love (love) the kid lit community and have since I starting working for library youth services so many years ago. NUFF SAID...here’s the link!

2009 Debutantes - L. K. Madigan's Feast of Awesome Giveaway!