Posted by Barry Lyga | May 18, 2015 | Writing
The May 15 edition of Booklist contains the second review of After the Red Rain, following on the heels of a great first one from School Library Journal. Here you go: Lyga’s foray into the popular genre of dystopian romance...
Read MorePosted by Barry Lyga | May 18, 2015 | Geeking Out
[Warning: Spoilers for Mad Men.] Of course it ended with a commercial. In retrospect, it’s obvious and the only way to do it, but I applaud Matt Weiner for picking the absolute perfect commercial, one that is not merely...
Read MorePosted by Barry Lyga | May 13, 2015 | Life
A few days back, Laura June, writing on The Awl, published a piece titled “Every Day is a Disaster.” At 10:15 am on Monday, I got a text from Zelda’s nanny, who we expected at around 11:30 am: She was sick, and she...
Read MorePosted by Barry Lyga | May 11, 2015 | The Publishing Biz, Writing
A piece of the final page of Blood of My Blood from copyediting. Click for the whole image. Spoilers!I’ve written before about copyediting. More specifically, about copyeditors. And more specifically than that about the...
Read MorePosted by Barry Lyga | May 8, 2015 | Life, The Publishing Biz, Writing
The fifteenth episode of Writing in Real Life…lives! The winner of the first WiRL contest! Some necessary followup discussion on the nature of writing routines. Morgan wakes up early. Introducing Lyga’s Axiom. Morgan needs...
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