Category: Writing Life

Kentucky Fried Lyga

Last week, I was honored to attend the Kentucky Library Association/Kentucky Association of School Librarians annual conference in Louisville, where I was presented with the Kentucky Bluegrass Award for I Hunt Killers. The award...

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The End of My Career

Anyone who knows me well will tell you that I have a general and ingrained distaste for what I think of as our “confessional culture.” Which is to say, people very publicly (and often quite loudly) spilling their...

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Writing Life #16: Boxes of Books!

Still incredibly super-duper busy these days, trying to brain out some last minute revision issues before I go on vacation. Plus, I just agreed to moderate a panel at the Brooklyn Book Festival in two weeks, meaning I have some...

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Writing Life #15: Catching Up

I have been super-busy today, hence the lateness of this post. I spent most of the day doing some final tweaks to I Hunt Killers before sending it off to my second round of betas. Now, usually I send a manuscript to all of my...

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Writing Life #12: Mutually Exclusive

As has been the case for the past while, my main focus right now is on I Hunt Killers, which currently lives at the intersection of “Ready?” and “Hmm.” I have a very solid draft finished and the ending is, in my opinion,...

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Writing Life #11

Aaaand… We’re back! It’s been a while since I wrote about the Writing Life. Mostly because there hasn’t been a lot of writing in my life for the past two weeks or so. I’ve been busy with other...

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Writing Life #10

Today is a good day, a celebratory day — today I finished the first draft of I Hunt Killers! I had set a goal for myself of finishing this version of the book before I left town for ALA and I just barely made it. Now I have to...

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