Twenty Years!
(Above: Portrait of the Artist as a Young(er) Man — me about 20 years ago.) Today, August 5,...
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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...
Read MoreSomething Else I Should Have Confessed To…
After yesterday’s post, I heard from some other authors. They said things like this: @novaren @barrylyga YES. Everything you said, Barry. — Malinda Lo (@malindalo) November 24, 2014 Other folks chimed in, as well,...
Read MoreThe 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...
Read MorePeter Brown on the Amazon Mess
“Now Amazon is holding my books hostage.” I have much to say on the Amazon mess, but my buddy Peter Brown has said so much, so well that it would be a crime not to point you in his direction: Amazon Is Destroying My...
Read MoreWriting Life #17: Hamlet Was a Douchebag
I’m back! Sorry I was absent for so long. As I indicated previously, I recently took a long-overdue vacation. But right before I left, I got sick, so some blogging stuff went undone. And when I returned, my internet...
Read MoreWriting 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...
Read MoreWriting 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...
Read MoreWriting Life #14: Screwing Up; Moving On
Oh, man. The Writing Life is killing me right now! I have self-imposed a deadline: By September 1, I have to finish new drafts of both I Hunt Killers and The Book That Will Kill Me. The reason for this is that as of September 1,...
Read MoreWriting Life #13: Lucky Thirteen!
Hey, it’s the thirteenth post in Writing Life! Here’s a black cat for you… And here’s a ladder… And last but not least, here’s a black cat…walking...
Read MoreWriting 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,...
Read MoreWriting 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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