What One Life to Live Taught Me About Endings

/ January 24, 2012

Back in November (when I confessed how I loved the reality show Dirty Soap), I shared with you all my love of the daytime soap, One Life to Live. OLTL has been off air for over a week, but I finally brought myself to watch the finale on Sunday night. I watched it with mixed feelings: anticipation over how they

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Susan Dennard and the Revision Process

/ January 20, 2012

Today The Pie welcomes Susan Dennard, author of the 2012 debut Something Strange and Deadly. This week, the WOA girls have promoted this fantastic debut and giving you a chance to read it before you can buy it. Read on to learn more about Susan’s revision process.  My revising process is…well, the word “intense” comes to mind. As I’ve talked

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Tuesday Haiku

/ January 17, 2012

After a harrowing week of revisions, my brain is ultimate mush. Thank goodness for weeks where the blog writes itself. Like today with yet another bad haiku*. #8 Water tortures me Threatening to cleanse my soul Alack! Bare me not * I need to start a new library of these, by the way. I have only two left. It’s tragic,

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Head’s Up: Susan Dennard Blog Tour Week

/ January 17, 2012

One great thing about the YA community is that everyone is super supportive. We cheer each other on through Twitter and our blogs. We share our successes and disappointments over email and IM. When we finally get published, we like to spread the word. That’s what’s happening this week. Debut YA author Susan Dennard is travelling the blogosphere this week

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Nomad in the Apartment

/ January 13, 2012

On a previous Friday Fives, I shared my favorite writing locations. These still hold true, but sometimes I need a change of scenery within a location, especially when I’m at the apartment. I have different places to work when I’m working on different things. 1. My desk has been a good place as of late. I work here when my

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