Crystal Book Reviews: Open Wounds
Viviane Crystal at Crystal Book Reviews has posted a nice review of Open Wounds on her blog-site. Take a look at the link: Review. She reviews all genres but has a special place in her heart, I think, for swordplay and historical novels. Thank you, Viviane.
Trainjotting.com Interview
I wrote a column on trainjotting.com for a few years called straphanger joe, and Mike Malone, trainjotting himself, has run an interview we did recently so check it out. Mike was around when Cid was just beginning to emerge as a character and has probably read Open Wounds more times than anyone I know. He’s a fine writer himself and I expect to see his name on a book’s binding some time soon.
In the Half-Light Essay in Hunger Mountain
Hunger Mountain is a wonderful online magazine (and print in the fall), whose editor, Bethany Hegedus (who wrote the wonderful Between Us Baxters), asked me to write an essay for them on the development of Cid Wymann, the protagonist of Open Wounds, and a secondary character named Winston Arnolf Leftingsham (aka: Lefty). Hunger Mountain is both a print and online journal of the arts that publishes fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, visual art, young adult and children’s writing, writing for stage and screen, interviews, reviews, and craft essays and I’m honored to have been selected by them to write this piece.
After a difficult birth (on my part) Bethany pulled my piece together with some great suggestions and trimming, and I have to say I’m pleased with the way it came out. The essay is called “In the Half-Light” and is in the current online edition which has just gone live. The first chapter of Open Wounds is also included in the issue. If you’d like some insight into the creation of these two characters, and my own creative process (yes, I do have one), then take a look.
Check out what Andrew Smith has been writing about how he develops characters in his blog Ghostmedicine.com for a look at how another author, and the writer’s who comment on his blog, look at the subject.
Elizabeth Willse: Book Blogger Review
I met Elizabeth at BEA’s Book Blogger convention last week and I’m happy to see that she put up a review of Open Wounds on her site today! Elizabeth was a fencer in high school and speaking with her at the end of the Book Blogger Conference (BBC at the BEA) was a wonderful way to finish off a week of book talk and promotion. Check out her review on her Elizabeth Willse Blog.
Signature Page
Casey Blackwell - The Bookish Type
Yesterday I received my first in-person request to sign a book. Casey Blackwell, who YA book review blog is thebookishtype.blogspot.com, just as the speed dating session was over pulled out her copy of my book and asked me politely to sign her book. It was sweet and made me smile. She was kind enough to let me take her picture and gave me permission to post it. It was a nice ending to a flurry of pitches, card-giving out sessions, and trying to remember who I’d said what to and in what order. Casey’s got a great blog site and I look forward to seeing her review of Open Wounds there.
Postscript: I didn’t know this but the page in the book with the title but nothing else is for author signatures. Sometimes it’s called the signature page. Of course it is. Author’s can also personalize their signature by addressing some comment to the individual and putting their name there. Jim Higley told me this as he signed his book, Bobblehead Dad, for me. (thanks, Jim!).
I need to get out more often.
Why didn’t I know this?
Well, at least now I do…
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