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My Double Life from youngest daughter’s point of view
My youngest daughter is still at that point where she reads with Mom and Dad listening to help her with the big words. While we were driving to visit cousins, I thought I would make good use of time and…
Continue ReadingTucson Book Festival March 13-14
If any of you are in the area, I hope you’ll stop by and see me at the Tucson Book Festival so it looks like I have fans. (I like to pretend, often bribing near strangers into filling this role.)…
Continue ReadingCareer Day
Yesterday my daughter told me her school was having a dress-in-the-career-you’re going-to-have day. She couldn’t decide whether to go as an artist, a crazy cat lady, or an editor. “What do editors wear?” she asked.“Bow ties,” I said.“What do the…
Continue ReadingRandom.org has chosen the winner
I love the Random.org website because it boasts that it is truly random. As opposed to all those other things in life that are only pseudo-random. (Like, say, certain people’s editorial comments.) The first sentence on the site says: Perhaps…
Continue ReadingAnother book give-away
Laura Lofgreen,one of my blogging friends, just did an interview with me that is up on her blog: http://mydeartrash.blogspot.com/2010/02/janette-rallison-young-adult-author.html I think all of my followers should read it, because I can actually be insightful and witty when given questions I…
Continue ReadingAnd the winners are . . .
After my husband read my rejection contest blog, he stared at the screen and said, “Wow, those stories are really depressing.” Exactly. Welcome to my life. And yet at the same time I think we all have the right to…
Continue ReadingRejection Contest
My daughter worked at Putnam going through the slush pile a few summers back. She told people her official job title was: Dream Crusher. A lot of agents could also put this on their business cards. During my recent agent-quest,…
Continue ReadingThe writer and self-esteem
Since My Double Life is coming out in three months, I’ve written a lot of emails to my editor, Tim, AKA the bow-tied one, about marketing stuff. (I want to hold some sort of celebrity look-alike contest, but more about…
Continue ReadingThe oddities of Amazon . . .
I admit there are a lot of things to love about Amazon. It’s a great way to find all of those older books that your local book store doesn’t carry. But I’m not a big fan of all the used…
Continue ReadingIn which Janette begs for romance–wait, will that title get me blocked in filters?
When I was a teenager I used to love to read romances. Seriously, I was a Harlequin addict. I thought men were supposed to be tall, dark, and brooding. Now I have stacks of YA books to read (have to…
Continue ReadingManatees, Barbara and otherwise
Nicole, one of my intrepid fans, has asked me a couple of times to mention the plight of manatees in my blog. It isn’t really a writing-young-adult-fiction sort of topic, since I have never written or read a book about…
Continue Readingdo new writers need to worry about people "stealing" their book
Re: Stolen Ideas Posted by: “Clint Johnson” clintrj@q.com Thu Jan 21, 2010 10:40 am (PST) There’s an element of assumed brilliance in these fears that wears off when you realize how many talented people there are out there. (My assumptions…
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