Barry Lyga's Blog: The BLog, page 65

Hi, everyone!

Yep, I'm on GoodReads now.

It will take me a little time to get up to speed (especially since I'm on a deadline right now!), so please be patient with me. But I should have some fun stuff coming up soon.

In the meantime, I'll be funneling my BLog from barrylyga.com here, so if you're not already following me there or on Tumblr, you'll be able to keep up right here.

See y'all soon!

Barry

Here’s what I posted recently on Tumblr…

"If you’re born with a gift, to behave like it’s an achievement is not right."

"What you write is private until YOU decide to make it public. Don’t be afraid to write the suckiest,…"

This Week in Rejection!: Two Rejections, One Letter!

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Do you think love triangles are overused in YA fiction?

"You don’t “get” your ideas — they just pounce on you."

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I had to blur a lot of stuff out of this week’s letter. Sorry, gang.

What I love most about this letter is that it offers two separate reasons for declining to represent Young Barry. First, the agent says (quite sensibly) that s/he is forming his/her own agency and, therefore, does not currently have room on his/her client list. Fair enough!

But as if that weren’t enough: S/he also wants to make sure I understand that even if there were room on this client list, I wouldn’t be muscling onto it any time soon, since the subject of my book is not something of interest to this particular client! The subtext (barely) is: “And even when I am expanding my list, don’t bother trying, buck-o.”

Very efficient!

Here’s what I posted recently on Tumblr…

"Education matters for one reason — because you learn new things and you become curious about them."

Holy crap. Leave it to the Japanese to develop a way to turn…

AMBER Alerts on your iPhone: What they are and how to manage them | iMore

"But then I realized that the title was misspelled. On the cover."

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Daily Bunny,…

"you don’t want someone just to say, “This is a piece of shit.” You need someone who can articulate…"

"we all start out writing crap"

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For the past two nights, I have dreamed of The Book That Will Kill Me. This is strange because I haven’t worked on it for several months now — it’s in the hands of my editor, and given the sheer length and density of it, I don’t expect to hear anything soon.

But dream of it I have, twice now, and this from a guy who rarely repeats his dreams.

The first night, I dreamed that the book had been published. And it was beautiful. But as I flipped through my copy, I realized that the publisher had decided at some point to, well, embellish the book. There were lavishly illustrated sections that had nothing to do with my story. Portions of the book were now, for some reason, written in French. And the structure of the book had changed completely. I was baffled and a little upset because — in the dream — I feared that “their” version was better than the original!

Last night, I once again dreamed that the book was published. It had a beautiful cover and it was hefty as hell. A nice chunk of words, you know? When I opened it, I discovered — much to my shock — several comic book pages in addition to my prose. But they seemed to fit, so it was okay. But then I realized that the title was misspelled. On the cover.

I have no idea if these are bad omens or what. I started writing The Book That Will Kill Me in 2009, and at this point, the earliest it will get published is 2016. That’s a long time to wait. Maybe the anxiety is just getting to me. I dunno.

Here’s what I posted recently on Tumblr…

Memory Monday: Super-Heroes Super-Size It

tompeyer:

THERE’S MONEY IN COMICS! 

"The internet is a glittering carnival of diversions, and that’s wonderful – until you need to get…"

"So, how did artists make a living before the 1700s and 1800s? Basically, all great art —…"

"The best way to write outside the box is not to realize there’s a box in the first place."

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Here’s what it looks like when super-heroes order fast food.

Admit it: You’ve always wondered.

(From Infinity Inc. #2, May 1984. Written by Roy Thomas, art by Jerry Ordway and Mike Machlan.)

Here’s what I posted recently on Tumblr…

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buzzfeed:

This cake of Jupiter is not only…

This Week in Rejection!: Penguin

"The problem is not that he’s too powerful, the problem is that he has to think and he has to…"

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Ten years ago (ish), I received this in the mail:

Still haven’t found the right publisher for it.

Here’s what I posted recently on Tumblr…

"I’m almost certain my years-long squat of self-promotion has been entirely pointless. If I could…"

hmhkids:

Looking for your next great read? Try these YA…

"We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will."

"What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and…"

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