Kristin Wolden Nitz

Category: Suspect

  • Rolling, Rolling, Rolling

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    For many writers, the wheels of publishing tend to turn more slowly than the wheels of justice.  I know of picture book authorswriters whose projects hit the shelves close to five years after being accepted by the editor.  (Note: Editors and art directors do their best to hook just the right illustrator for a project.  Often that…

  • Suspect

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    It’s official!  SUSPECT, my YA mystery, will be released October 1! Here’s a description from the publisher: Seventeen-year-old Jen is scheduled to spend the summer helping Grandma Kay run the Shoenhaus, a Victorian bed and breakfast. But Grandma Kay’s plans include a lot more than housekeeping; she intends to solve a real mystery from the past…

  • Hitting the Send Button

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    Incoming!  Thwump!  That’s the sound of 51,000 words landing in my editor’s electronic inbox. My YA mystery is done, at least for the moment.  It was a pretty major revision, so I’ll have to see what my editor thinks about the changes and additions.  But my kids, who are in high school and college, liked…

  • Revising YA Mystery: Done?

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    It took a writing binge of epic proportions, but I completed a draft of the YA mystery very early on Saturday morning after putting in a marathon day on Friday.  Deadlines can be a powerful thing.  This one was  self-imposed.  I knew that my technical advisors–aka college-age daughters–would be able to read the book if…

  • YA Mystery Revision: Halfway There!

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    With respect to numbers of pages, I’m halfway through the revision of my YA mystery.  But in many other ways, I could very well be within a week of a semi-polished draft.  I’ll have to draft a few other new scenes, but they won’t be anywhere near as hard as what I’ve already accomplished.  At least I’m…

  • Forward Progress

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    Goals are good things.  My editor established one goal when she gave me a due date for the mystery revision: February 15.  But it was pretty clear that she’d like to have it sooner, so I have a private goal of getting it out the door by the end of the third week in January.  I also have…

  • Stand-in for Murder

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    It’s not a 100% certainty, but it looks like my YA mystery will be released in the fall of 2010 with the title of STAND-IN FOR MURDER.  This morning, I finished the preliminary revisions to the first three chapters.  I’m sure that they’ll need some polishing, but I want to wrap up a draft by Christmas…