We interrupt our regularly scheduled program . . .
By Kathleen Bolton | March 27, 2009 |
. . . for a big time squee. WU friend Kristan Hoffman is a quarterfinalist in Amazon’s Breakthrough Novel Contest! WoW! Kristan’s story THE GOOD DAUGHTER is garnering rave reviews. Go check it out, you won’t regret it.
Good luck, Kristan!
And, erm, Therese and I apologize. We messed up our interview schedule through Keystone Kops series of garbled communications. So for possibly the first time in our three-year history, we will not have an interview for you this week.
So-wy :-(
But it got us wondering if you all had suggestions for us to apply to our interviewing process. Are there questions you wish we’d ask that we didn’t? Are there genres that we’ve been overlooking? Publishing professionals you’d wish we’d look up?
We try to do our best to be well-rounded, but sometimes we just can’t get in touch with our dream interviewee. Or they bail on us. Or . . . we just don’t think of them.
Let us know. We’ll do our best to follow up.
Meanwhile, check out Kristan’s submission at Amazon. We are rooting for you, Kristan!
And then check out this movie trailer for Maurice Sendak’s classic story, Where the Wild Things Are.
Kathleen Bolton is co-founder of Writer Unboxed. She writes under a variety of pseudonyms, including Ani Bolton.
She has written two novels as Cassidy Calloway: Confessions of a First Daughter, and Secrets of a First Daughter–both books in a YA series about the misadventures of the U.S. President’s teen-aged daughter, published by HarperCollins, and Tamara Blake, for the novel Slumber.
Aw, thank you guys so much!! (I’m actually just a quarterfinalist right now, haha, but the excitement I feel is big enough for finals! :P)
I really appreciate the support.
As for interviews, I don’t know if it’s a suggestion so much as just feedback, I really enjoy hearing a mix about the book and the process — at least for authors. Maybe it’s just me, but I can never get enough of hearing how authors work, find inspiration, work through blocks, participate (or don’t) in the publishing process, etc. :)
I’d love to see an interview with literary agent Jenoyne Adams of Bliss Literary Agency International. Not so much because I’m biased as she’s my agent, but because as the bestselling author of Resurrecting Mingus and Selah’s Bed, she has a very interesting perspective of the whole publishing business as an author turned agent (and a successful one at that)!
Jenoyne is funny, congenial, fascinating and has great empathy for authors and what they endure on the road to publication.