I used to have this weird typo tic where I never got the acronym for work-in-progress right. It always came out WOP. I’ve even tweeted about my wop and never noticed until it was too late. Maybe there was something Freudian about this little tic. Because “wop” always makes me think about a cartoon where some character is being repeatedly bludgeoned over the head. Not that my works…
Unlike some of the other lovelies of the Deb Ball, I didn’t have a playlist for TINY PRETTY THINGS. With three characters going at once, my writing time for that book was usually all about finding the right first line for a chapter — i.e. pondering for hours — and then spilling the whole thing out. Yes, each girl had murky (sometimes mournful) emotional depths, but the way I wrote…
Happy New Year, friends! So, a show of hands: who out there is excited for 2013? Anyone? I, for one, cannot wait to see what this new year brings. Not only will my first book come out in just over a month (squee!)*, but my fellow Debs — these four lovely ladies who have become my writer sisters — will see their books enter the world this year as well….
