WUWU! Good News!

We are thrilled and proud to announce that WU contributor Allison Winn Scotch has hit the NYT’s best-seller list with her new novel, Time of My Life–which, though released not even four weeks ago, has just gone into its fourth printing! (Click on the NYT’s picture for a full blow-up of the list.)

Learn more about Allison’s journey by visiting her personal blog, Ask Allison. Be sure to read her essay on “The Making of a Best Seller.”

But wait, that’s not all.

WU contributor Sophie Masson has sold the US rights to her forthcoming historical mystery novel The Madman of Venice to Random House US. The sale comes in advance of its April 2009 release in the UK and Australia! The Madman of Venice is the latest in Sophie’s wonderful Shakespearean series, YA stories inspired by the Bard–pretty great source material, if you ask us.

Venice, 1602. A beautiful city, full of elegant delights–but also sinister secrets and murderous intrigue. A missing girl accused of witchcraft. A powerful Venentian countess bent on vengeance. A deadly plague of pirates infecting the coast. A mysterious madman who haunts the city…

English merchant Matthew Ashby, his daughter Celia and young assistant Ned Fletcher come to Venice to investigate. What they find amongst the glistening canals and golden palaces is much darker and more dangerous than they ever imagined. And the shadows thrown by the past are terrible indeed.

Inspired by The Merchant of Venice and Romeo and Juliet, The Madman of Venice is a distinctively different historical mystery for young people.

Congratulations, Sophie!

To learn more, check out Sophie’s YouTube trailer about the Madman of Venice.

We’re excited to announce that WU contributor Juliet Marillier‘s next novel, Heir to Sevenwaters, will be released tomorrow in the U.S. Come back tomorrow for our Take Five interview with her.

Finally, if you haven’t noticed the sidebar lately, you may have missed the news that we have an upcoming interview with the Queen of the unboxed novel, Diana Gabaldon. Be sure to tune in this Friday for part one of a truly meaty ‘view.

Write on, all!

Writer Unboxed

Writer Unboxed began as a collaboration between Kathleen Bolton and Therese Walsh in 2006. Since then, the site has grown to include ~50 regular contributors and a variety of guests on rotation throughout a given year.

In 2016, the Writer Unboxed team published a book with Writer’s Digest / Random House. AUTHOR IN PROGRESS: A No-Holds-Barred Guide to What It Really Takes to Get Published is a comprehensive guide focused on helping writers over/around/through hurdles faced at every stage of the novel-writing process. It’s received some ***** reviews; we hope you’ll check it out.

If you’d like to be among the first to know about the next Writer Unboxed UnConference, which will likely tie-in with WU’s 20th Anniversary celebration, please sign up for our mailing list!

Write on!