Tag Archives: Things that Make Kate Panic

Help! I’ll Be Very Embarrassed if I’m the Weak Link at YA for NJ.

Yes, I know this isn’t about me. It’s about raising money for the Community Foodbank of New Jersey. But look:  I want to be useful. And in this context, I am useful if someone (or a few someones) out there in the world are excited enough about getting a signed set of The Boneshaker, The Broken Lands, and The Kairos Mechanism that they’ll whip out their preferred means of online payment and bid like auction-crazed fools. The winner will be donating [...]

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The Importance of Dark Stories; or, Kate Talks for a Long Time about Lois Lowry and Crying a Lot

Wednesday night I got to meet Lois Lowry and spend 45 minutes in conversation with her before her appearance in conversation with Anna Holmes and Lizzie Skurnick of Jezebel.com. I was the guest of Jen Doll at the Atlantic Wire (you can read her interview here), because the two of us are reading The Giver Quartet for her YA for Grownups column (first part here), and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt had asked if we’d like to meet Ms. Lowry since she was going [...]

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Novellablog, BEA Edition: My Beautiful Advance Copies and the Grammatical Error on Page One

First of all, LOOK AT THE PRETTY!! Beth at McNally Jackson took my PDFs of The Kairos Mechanism‘s book text and front matter and laid them out all sorts of pretty. Then, since I won’t have Andrea Offermann’s cover illustration until about mid-July, Erin at McNally made a basic cover from my title page (the back cover has the disclaimer on it about this being an advance copy and to check all quotes against the final text). Then, ten minutes [...]

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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 [...]

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