We’re holding a SETTING workshop with some of our wonderful Pitch Wars mentors during the month of June! They’ll critique 500 words from any part of your manuscript to help bring your settings to life. Critiques will be posted daily on my blog for the month of June. This is Read more…
Don’t Be a Bully (or Raise One) by Laura Heffernan This month, some of the other mentors have shared their experience with bullying, how it changed them. I hope these posts have made some people think about this problem, in realizing that our actions really do impact those around us. Read more…
Friends Stop Bullies by C.M. McCoy Bullies have been the bane of my existence since the sixth grade, and when I saw Brenda Drake was doing a blog series dedicated to anti-bullying, I knew I wanted to contribute. This cause is close to my heart. Before I go into my Read more…
I usually keep this site to contests, workshops, promoting others, and book announcements. Rarely do I veer off and talk about myself, but I have something to share today. Some of you may have seen a clip of a video I passed around last month. It’s of a young member Read more…
Are You Ready to Query, Sub, or Enter that Contest? Four Writing Contest Finalists Share Their Tips for Success by Martina Boone I remember the first time that I tried try to write a pitch and had to condense my novel into a couple of paragraphs. Writing the book had Read more…
We’re holding a VOICE workshop with some of our wonderful Pitch Wars mentors during the month of May! They’ll critique 500 words from any part of your manuscript to help you find your voice. Critiques will be posted daily on my blog for the month of May. We have 30 Read more…
Welcome to YA Scavenger Hunt! Hello! I’m Brenda Drake, your hostess for this leg of the hunt. About Me … I’m addicted to Gold Fish crackers. My favorite color is red. But I must say that since seeing the THIEF OF LIES book cover, purple is changing my mind. I Read more…
Welcome to YA Scavenger Hunt! Hello! I’m Brenda Drake, your hostess for this leg of the hunt. About Me … I’m addicted to Gold Fish crackers. My favorite color is red. But I must say that since seeing the THIEF OF LIES book cover, purple is changing my mind. I Read more…
It’s coming. . . March 29th – April 3rd, 2016It’s the YA Scavenger Hunt Spring 2016! Now that the authors have signed up to participate in this exciting event, they were put into teams of 20 by color. There are nine teams total this round! Check out the teams below to see Read more…
WHEN I LIED By Michelle Kemper Brownlow New Adult Romance RELEASE DATE: April 19, 2016 RELEASING FROM BOROUGHS PUBLISHING GROUP Add it to Goodreads! About the book … Honor student, Kate Green, sees promise in an out-of-character dive into social media as an innocuous attempt to prepare for her freshman Read more…