This Week in Rejection!: Sci Fiction
I show this one for one reason and one reason only: It cracks me up to this day that there was a time when websites required hard copy submissions…and sent hard copy rejections!
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A Blockbuster-Free Summer?
Posted by Barry Lyga | Jul 26, 2012 | The Publishing Biz
The folks over at YARN (that’s Young Adult Review Network, for the uninitiated) are doing something kinda cool right now. They’re throwing out the summer blockbusters (you know, the big books, the ones everyone knows...
Read MoreInterview: School Library Journal
Posted by Barry Lyga | Jul 26, 2012 | Interviews
I’m doing some kind of cool, tech-y online panel thing for the fine folks at School Library Journal in a couple of weeks. They’re preceding this with online interviews with the panelists. You know where this is...
Read MoreYahoo! on I Hunt Killers
Posted by Barry Lyga | Jul 25, 2012 | The Publishing Biz
Yahoo! asked authors Melissa Kantor, Stacy Kramer, and Valerie Thomas for some suggested YA reading this summer. Along with work from John Green, Melissa Walker, Gary Schmidt, and others, they recommended I Hunt Killers, calling...
Read MoreMemory Monday: “Vainglorious dolt!”
Posted by Barry Lyga | Jul 23, 2012 | Geeking Out, Memory Monday
I always loved this moment from the legendary “Judas Contract” storyline. Deathstroke the Terminator — international mercenary without peer — has taken down the Changeling by drugging the envelope glue he...
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