Kristin Wolden Nitz
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Another positive review for SUSPECT: “Mystery fans will root for Jen and speculate away as they try to figure out what really happened…” ―Booklist
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Reading Reviews
One extremely wise writer compared good reviews to crack and bad reviews to poison. And she’s right. It would probably be wiser to stay away from places like GoodReads where you run the simultaneous risk of becoming addicted to the “Attagirl!”…
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Best Fiction for Young Adults 2011
SUSPECT was nominated to YALSA’s Best Fiction for Young Adults list! A group of fifteen will evaluate the nominees at the American Library Association Midwinter conference and come up with the 80 or so finalists. I’ll add the link once…
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Some Advice for Those in NaNoWriMo
Let me start with a disclaimer. I tried NaNoWri National Novel Writing Month once about six years ago. I wound up stopping about halfway through with a tangled mess. It taught me that I really have to have one scene written…
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That Which Does Not Kill Us…
Writers have co-opted an old expression for their own use: That which does not kill us, gives us something to write about. Right now I’m in the process of editing Calyn’s darkest moment. As I work through it, I’m keeping…
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NaNoEdiMo
Since I’m deep into revisions for Calyn’s story, I knew that NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) wasn’t an option. But there are other options out there. A few other writers I know have decided to embark on NaNoEdiMo where editing is…
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Wading Through Story
Purple ink decorates the last forty pages of Calyn’s story. (My writing students might have a good idea of how that must look. My goal today is to get a goodly chunk of these change into the computer by noon. I have lots of other…
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Status on Stretch Goal?
Well, I did go through the rest of Calyn’s story on paper. It will take time to get these corrections and new scenes transferred into the computer. But I like how things are working. Fortunately for me, a lot of the…
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SUSPECT on First Page Panda
First Page Panda is a relatively new blog that shares the first pages of new novels. SUSPECT was posted today. This does look like a great place to taste books by familiar and unfamiliar authors.
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Lexile Score
Once upon a time, I used to do the combination grammar/spell checker with Microsoft Word on my middle grade novels and short stories. I’d reach the end where I’d find that I was writing on the 12th grade level. Well,…
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