Tag Archives: The Kid Editor Crew
Novellablog: Seven Days Left for The Kairos Mechanism on Kickstarter!
That’s right, one week remains. Seven days, friends, count ‘em. If at any point you were thinking you might want to get involved with the glorious insanity that is The Kairos Mechanism and its equally glorious Kickstarter campaign, now’s the time! Here’s the link. What’s in it for you? My endless thanks, plus goodies. There are so many ridiculously exciting rewards, you just won’t believe your eyes. BUT BELIEVE THEM!! At the time of my writing this, the campaign is [...]
Novellablog: A Kid Editor Interview with Mason, and My Thoughts on Reading Military History.
Ah, the Kid Editors. We’ve discussed that they’re brilliant. We’ve discussed that giving your book to a kid basically guarantees that you’re going to be given insights about your work, yourself, your talents and your shortcomings in completely unexpected ways. If a kid gets you, give yourself a pat on the back. If a kid tells you you got it wrong, FIX IT IMMEDIATELY. Well, apart from getting some good story notes, I learned something about myself from the second [...]
Novellablog: Yes, You Can Edit Your Own Work, but You Will Probably Frack It Up.
It will not surprise my nerd audience that I’m watching Battlestar Galactica as I write this. But that’s neither here nor there. We are now progressing into the portion of this series I like to call From Beta Readers to Copyeditors; In Which Kate Panics About the Editing Process. Here’s a list of things I am worried about with this project: 1) Finishing the novella. (April Kate checking in: done and done.) 2) Raising the money. (June Kate, did you [...]
Countdown to THE BROKEN LANDS: the Cover, and a Contest or Two
About a week ago I got to see the final cover of my next book at last. Yes, The Broken Lands jacket art has been finalized, and all I can say is that it’s truly beautiful. Not that I expected anything less for a moment. Andrea Offermann, the amazing artist behind the cover and illustrations of The Boneshaker, returned for this book, and I’m just in love with what she’s done this time. In fact, I’m so in love I [...]
The Kid Editor Crew, Part the Third: The Discussion
The discussion begins with a phone call. Ah, the phone call. I could probably do this by Skype, but I always think I look awful in pictures and video, and while obviously nobody but me cares whether or not I look elegant and put-together in this sort of situation, I don’t want to be distracted. So phone it is. In the email setting up the phone call, I ask the readers to go over my questions, and, which is more [...]
The Kid Editor Crew, Part the Second: How it Works
Continuing with our discussion of kid beta-readers, we rejoin the Kid Editor Crew for Part the Second: How it Works. Here’s how it works. When I have a draft almost ready, I send out an email to the Kid Editors to find out what everybody’s schedules look like, and the Editors let me know if they’ve got busy times coming up (family trips, school projects, that kind of stuff), and we figure out when a good time for me to [...]
My Secret Weapon: The Beta-Reading Geniuses of the Kid Editor Crew (Part the First)
Every writer eventually gets asked at least once or twice what she thinks the most important things are for someone who wants to be a writer. There are any number of good answers to this question (persistence, self-motivation, delusions of having something to say, delusions of being able to take criticism, etc). Today I’m going to focus on this one: writers need critical readers they trust. We need them like we need coffee. Which is to say, they are absolutely [...]
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