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Jill Murray's young adult book, RHYTHM AND BLUES is hitting store shelves and her main character, Alya is popping buy to interview Andre and Lucas from KEEP OUT! This is great since Andre and Lucas are young enough to be Alya's annoying little next door neighbours, waking her up early in the morning after a late night of dancing and singing, bouncing their basketballs and screaming up and down the street with their bikes.

Fun!

Get your very own signed copy of RHYTHM AND BLUES when Jill is in...

COMING: April, 2010!



In KEEP OUT! Lucas and Andre try to solve the mystery of who, or what, has destroyed the endangered piping plover's nest of Prince Edward Island National Park. And Lucas hatches a plan to get Andre to keep his dirty socks on his side of the room!

Read the first chapter:  HERE!

Pre-order: chapters.indigo.ca │amazon.ca

KEEP OUT!

COMING: April, 2010!

In KEEP OUT! Lucas and Andre try to solve the mystery of who, or what, has destroyed the endangered piping plover's nest of Prince Edward Island National Park. And Lucas hatches a plan to get Andre to keep his dirty socks on his side of the room!

Read the first chapter: coming soon…

Purchase: chapters.indigo.ca │amazon.ca

A variety of links to news, views and interviews…

*An interview with Brigita Pavshich over at ALL THINGS GIRL/EVERYTHING GIRL.

*A fun podcast I did with the wonderful folks at JUST ONE MORE BOOK , chatting about the complex art of storytelling.

*Ten minutes with Simone Joseph at the ECONOMIST & SUN.

Well, maybe not easy peasy, but you've written a whole novel, right? A super awesome unputdownable, potential to rival the greats novel, right? You're not going to let a one-page query come between you and getting it published, are you?!

I know, I know…queries are super hard. I know!! I've written about a kajillion of them and have had to tinker with them endlessly before coming up with my final copy.

For those wondering what a query actually *is*, it's a letter from an author to an editor or a...

Well, maybe not easy peasy, but you've written a whole novel, right? A super awesome unputdownable, potential to rival the greats novel, right? You're not going to let a one-page query come between you and getting it published, are you?!

I know, I know…queries are super hard. I know!! I've written about a kajillion of them and have had to tinker with them endlessly before coming up with my final copy.

For those wondering what a query actually *is*, it's a letter from an author to an editor or a...

I hope I can do this correctly, but here is my cover for my new early chapter book KEEP OUT! (spring 2010), the first volume in the RED DUNE ADVENTURES SERIES. (the cover! )

In KEEP OUT! Lucas and Andre try to solve the mystery of who, or what, has destroyed the endangered piping plover's nest. And Lucas hatches a plan to get Andre to keep his dirty socks on his side of the room!

It will be out in Canada in April and (hopefully!) everywhere else this fall.

YA author extraordinaire, Kody Keplinger has started a grassroots Unofficially Official Agent Appreciation Day (today!) so I thought I'd join in on the fun. Check out Lisa and Laura Roecker's blog  for a list of all the participating authors.

I tweeted this on twitter, but here's a more permanent (slightly tweaked) record of my appreciation for @bostonbookgirl (i.e. Lauren MacLeod of The Strothman Agency)

If I told you how funny, smart, lovely & savvy Lauren MacLeod was, you'd all want to...

Ah, the dreaded synopsis. Authors hate to write them but they're a necessary, albeit evil, step in the querying process.

When querying agents/editors, some require a 1 or 2 page synopsis with your initial query. Others will ask for it when they request pages, especially a partial. A synopsis is a re-telling of your story from beginning to end, hitting all of the major plot points (and yes, in a synopsis, agents/editors want to know the end).

I know, I know…it's sooo hard to distill a whole...

What a week! I'm shaking my head in total disbelief. First THIS happened and now MORE good news. Far more than I deserve.

From today's Publisher's Marketplace:

Children's/Middle Grade

Helene Boudreau's REAL MERMAIDS DON'T WEAR TOE RINGS, about an aquaphobic mer-girl trying to balance the drama of two-legged teenage life with her quest to rescue her mermaid mother from really scary mer-dudes, to Rebecca Frazer at Jabberwocky, for publication in Fall 2010, by Lauren MacLeod at The Strothman...