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Bookish sundries
7/10/10 13:25* Just got the word that LOVE STORY will be published in the Netherlands. My first sale of translation rights!
* Had a meeting today where I booktalked Holly Black's WHITE CAT. One of my favorite booktalks I've done because the emotional connection is so up-front and vivid. Not all great books can have their greatness conveyed in 2 minutes, and all too often the high-concept shiny books don't live up to their premise, but White Cat is the exception. By the way, can we have a moratorium on "Read ________ to find out!" in booktalks? You don't care what happens next until you're already invested in the story.
* I'm very very close to finishing up my read-through of SPARKS AND ASHES. Then a pretty light revision, and then it will be out of my hands. It's time for it to be out of my hands.
* Went to Catherynne Valente and Seanan McGuire's reading for the New York Review of Science Fiction Tuesday evening. Valente read from Habitation of the Blessed, a chapter which was utterly enchanting and pulled me into the book right away, and McGuire read from a short story about mad scientists. Thumbs up!
* I am thinking about the next book. This is something that always happens when the current WIP is off -- or almost off -- my desk. Nothing concrete as yet. Just thinking.
* Had a meeting today where I booktalked Holly Black's WHITE CAT. One of my favorite booktalks I've done because the emotional connection is so up-front and vivid. Not all great books can have their greatness conveyed in 2 minutes, and all too often the high-concept shiny books don't live up to their premise, but White Cat is the exception. By the way, can we have a moratorium on "Read ________ to find out!" in booktalks? You don't care what happens next until you're already invested in the story.
* I'm very very close to finishing up my read-through of SPARKS AND ASHES. Then a pretty light revision, and then it will be out of my hands. It's time for it to be out of my hands.
* Went to Catherynne Valente and Seanan McGuire's reading for the New York Review of Science Fiction Tuesday evening. Valente read from Habitation of the Blessed, a chapter which was utterly enchanting and pulled me into the book right away, and McGuire read from a short story about mad scientists. Thumbs up!
* I am thinking about the next book. This is something that always happens when the current WIP is off -- or almost off -- my desk. Nothing concrete as yet. Just thinking.
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