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So, my last video got CRAZY RESPONSE. So here’s a follow up, just to clarify some things before moving on.

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We’re so young. We’re so young. We’re twenty-two years old. We have so much time. There’s this sentiment I sometimes sense, creeping in our collective conscious as we lay alone after a party, or pack up our books when we give in and go out – that it is somehow too late. That others are somehow ahead. More accomplished, more specialized. More on the path to somehow saving the world, somehow creating or inventing or improving. That it’s too late now to BEGIN a beginning and we must settle for continuance, for commencement…

What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over. Get a post-bac or try writing for the first time. The notion that it’s too late to do anything is comical. It’s hilarious. We’re graduating college. We’re so young. We can’t, we MUST not lose this sense of possibility because in the end, it’s all we have.

(Excerpt of The Opposite of Loneliness by Marina Keegan)

CLICK to read her full article.

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So, if you have been wandering around these parts for any period of time, you probably know that I am a HUGE fan of outlining. HUGE. I outline everything– short stories, novels, essays, you name it.

I very frequently get asked about this process, and I’ve tried to explain, but…it’s sort of like your grandmother trying to explain how she makes her secret biscuit recipe. “Just throw in a little flour…oh, I don’t know how much, just till it feels right…what do you mean, you don’t know when it feels right? It just does.”

So, for next week’s liveshow, we’ll be outlining a novel together. I’ll have the premise and some ideas, and the chat will come up with everything to flesh the story out, and we’ll go through a mini version of the process complete with Scrivener, Post-Its, and legal pads.

Tuesday, May 22, 8:00pm EST. This chat might run a little longer than our usual hour, just warning you. CLICK to go to the Liveshow page!

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So, if you come to liveshows, you’ve heard me say that cover changes are coming.

If you don’t come to liveshows…what’s wrong with you?

Anyhow, the long and short of it is that SISTERS RED and SWEETLY are getting new paperback covers to match FATHOMLESS’s hardback cover. There are a lot of reasons publishers change the covers of an already-published book: to revive the series, to reach a new audience, to market toward a specific crowd, etc. Which, if you ask me, are pretty damn good reasons.

BUT…I will be the first to admit, I was a little wary. I LOVE the original SISTERS RED and SWEETLY covers. And I was a little sad that there wouldn’t be a matching FATHOMLESS cover. So when the final covers for SWEETLY and FATHOMLESS came in the other day, I had my fingers crossed and was wishing and praying and hoping and–

AHHHHHHH THEY’RE SO GOOD I JUST CAN’T EVEN

(I don’t have the new SISTERS RED cover yet, but based on the fact that I want to eat these, I imagine it’ll be pretty fantastic.)

Only the paperbacks of SWEETLY and SISTERS RED are changing– I believe you’ll still be able to order the hardback with the original covers if you want. The new covers will be available in August!

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