May 18
2009
Your Summer Blog Blast Tour schedule for Day #1:
Andrew Mueller at Chasing Ray: "There really is very little demand for news about the proverbial far away countries of which we know nothing - go to the website of any quality news agency or highbrow newspaper, and look at their most read/forwarded stories and you'll find that celebrity sex and skateboarding meerkats have it all over pestilence, war, famine and death. "
Kekla Magoon at Fuse Number 8: "I’ve realized in writing this book that the way we tell history to kids is very hero-focused. It’s especially true of Black History. How does the story go? There was slavery, then Abraham Lincoln. Segregation, then Rosa Parks. Then Dr. King came along, and now we’re all living happily ever after. Ummm….simplified much?"
Carrie Jones at Writing & Ruminating: "Girls deserve stories where the butt-kicking and the saving isn’t ALWAYS done by the guys. They deserve stories where the female isn’t always the damsel in distress. She can be in distress sometimes, but not all the time."
Amber Benson at Little Willow: "In the end, I decided that it would be kind of cool to model the trilogy on Dante's "Divine Comedy" - not that what I'm writing is literature, per se. It's really more of a fun, fast read. So, the first book takes place in Hell, the second in Purgatory and the third in Heaven."
Greg van Eekhout at Shaken & Stirred: "Right there, you've got all these questions about predestiny and free will and making the most of your numbered days. These are very human issues, which means the gods and the mortals in my book are dealing with the same stuff."
And don't forget the Guys Lit Wire Book Fair for Boys to benefit the boys incarcerated in the LA County juvenile justice system! Read more here.
And a bonus interview of Lisa Yee over at Into the Wardrobe as part of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. This one is worth reading for the picture of Lisa's office alone! "I had been every other sort of writer there was--journalist, copywriter, screenwriter, etc. Everything but what I wanted most: author. So finally, I realized it was something that was going to plague me for the rest of my life unless I gave it a shot."
May 19
2009
02:32 AM
Intriguing!