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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New Year’s Kick Off

/ January 3, 2012

We’re a few days into the new year and, so far, it’s looking slightly nicer than 2011. I’m still working out my goals for the new year, so that post will come later. Today is all about the blog’s outlook for 2012. We’d love to hear your feedback on what we should do here. Please fill out the survey below

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Writers and Social Media Fatigue

/ November 1, 2011

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been finding it difficult to keep up with Twitter, Facebook, email, and even blogging. No matter how hard I try, I end up missing something and then feel guilty. Let’s not even get into the fact that with my phone, I’m plugged in to social networking 24/7. After over seven years, I’ve finally got

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Now I’m Feeling Linkified*

/ September 20, 2011

The Pie got another award**. This is pretty exciting. When we get an award, it’s not only a prize for the blog, but a prize for the blogger. And by prize I totally mean built in blog post. Kelley at Writtled shared the 7×7 Link Award with the Pie. She’s a fellow campaigner where I’ve been lurking lately***. I like

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Ask Us Anything!

/ May 23, 2011

Credit It’s a hectic week over at The Pie, this might have everything to do with revision deadlines and convention recoveries*. This in mind, we’re turning the blog over to you!Say wha?For reals. Ask Miranda or Alicia any question that comes to mind. We’ll answer. More complicated questions will take longer for us to answer, but we still will. You

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