epicreads: FREE FOUR is available now on Facebook! http://divergent.pgtb.me/cQlP #DivergentNation @veronicaroth Hear Tobias’s side of the story!
Divergent Nation, we did it. We reached 35,000 preorders of INSURGENT, and we freed Four! Now, here’s a never-before-seen piece from #1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth: a pivotal scene from DIVERGENT told from Four’s point of view.
Read it. Love it. Share it with your friends.
Can it be May 1st already?
So the first giveaway I’ll be doing is a big one. I’ll be giving away 3 (THREE!) SHUT OUT gym bags full of fun football and soccer swag. Inside I’ll also pack an audiobook of SHUT OUT and a paperback of THE DUFF.
To enter, you just have to do 2 things.
1.) Follow this Tumblr.
2.) Reblog this.
Is it possible to be a perfect writer? “Either you’re an incredibly attractive, charming, popular, successful actor-astronaut, or you’re not, and trying to become the ‘perfect’ person using a mix of makeup and voodoo magic usually doesn’t work.”
Today on the Highway: Query Tips with Melissa Landers & Nicole Resciniti
In our Query Series, writers share the query letters that helped them land an agent - and their agents share reasons why the letter worked. Today we hear from author Melissa Landers and her agent, Nicole Resciniti of the Seymour Agency. Melissa’s young adult debut, ALIENATED, is slated to release in 2013 from Disney-Hyperion as the first book in her humorous, light sci-fi series. Nicole is a hands-on editorial agent whose memberships include AAR, ACFW, RWA, and Mensa.
(To anyone currently querying or working on their query: good luck from all of us!)
Some insights from Veronica into Tris’ character and a mistake she wishes she could take back from the first book.
This month is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. And in the past year, I’ve seen a lot of blog posts from very smart people about a new and problematic trend in YA: the “throwaway” sexual assault trope. This trope is included to artificially raise the stakes in a plot or situation, or to further establish how bad a villain is, but it doesn’t actually affect the character all that much moving forward. It is problematic to include a sensitive issue in your work as a plot device only, without making it important for the character. Not just on a moral level, but on a storymaking level, too.
(via yaflash)
Rush Limbaugh on Katniss and the Hunger Games
(from our April 1st post. obviously. leave a comment and enter to win the Hunger Games soundtrack.)
Reminds me of Kristin Halbrook’s Nobody But Us!
(via lovepropheteer)
