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For your viewing enjoyment, here are this year’s pumpkin offerings courtesy of hubby—who carved offerings one and three—and older son—who carved offerings two and four.

Here are three fun exercises to help you get to know your characters better. You’re welcome to share your results in the comments

Exercise A:

1. My character wants _______________________ more than anything else in the world.

2. My character will do anything to avoid________________________. (What a character wants to avoid can be as important/compelling as what she/he wants to gain.)

3. My character’s greatest fear is____________________________. (May be the same or different than what she/he...

Writers write. We do it in isolation for the most part, alone with a computer and a bunch of wild and wonderful thoughts. And despite a ton of information available through the internet, magazines, workshops, writing courses, and mentors, we make our own mistakes. Because part of figuring out how to be the best writer you can be is by making mistakes and learning from them. Still, it’s nice to have a warning, a bit of advice from the trenches, so here without further ado are some easy fixes f...

I’ve been meaning to start up Writer Wednesday posts for a while now, but something always came up. So today, I put it at the top of my to-do list (well, sort of at the top…there were only about seven things ahead of it) and here it is, my first Writer Wednesday post. If people enjoy it, I’ll keep going and post writing advice at least a couple of times a month.

Some writers might glance at the title of this post and think that since they don’t work with a critique group there’s nothing here r...

Street Team! I created a closed group for readers/bloggers/reviewers who love my books. There will be fun tasks every week, and I'll be sending out bookmarks, offering prizes and more—just for team members.

If you'd like to be part of the team with special access to prizes and deleted scenes and chapters written just for team members, head over and join.

The team will be for both my YA and adult titles, but you're welcome to participate only in tasks that involve one or the other.

Want to know my dream of happiness? My idea of misery? My principal fault? My greatest extravagance? Check it out: Open Book Toronto

I have advance copies of three books that I’ve read and loved and I want to give them to three of you!

First up is Melissa Marr’s incredible new novel of magic and mayhem, wonder and the Wasteland: The Arrivals . (adult)

Next up is The Burning Sky by Sherry Thomas, a novel of intrigue, adventure, mages, missions and love. (Young Adult) (note: The cover of the ARC differs from the cover shown here.)

Next up is Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner’s These Broken Stars , a story of hyperspace, a distant p...

Want a copy of DARK DESIRES for only 99 cents? Head over to Kobo or Amazon before July 6.

**Originally posted at Once Upon a Twilight.

The story of RUSH:

Rewind to 2011: I had two ideas for young adult books. The first was a post-apocalyptic story set in the frozen Northern Waste with ice truckers and rebels and Reavers and action. The second was…well, we’ll come back to that.

I loved both ideas, so I tossed a coin and went with the first idea. I wrote a proposal, sent it to my agent. The timing for that proposal was off and it didn’t sell. Clouds gathered, heartbreak ensued and I wa...

Five amazing bloggers are helping me to reveal the book trailer for RUSH. Visit one (or all) and check out the trailer, read an excerpt and enter to win a signed copy of RUSH!

Check it out at:

YABookshelf

Iceybooks

ForeverYoungAdult

PortraitOfABook

BooksCompleteMe