Monthly Archives: October 2011

Wordplay Podcast Episode 9: Aprilynne Pike, Frame of Mind, Networking

October 24, 2011

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NYT bestselling author Aprilynne Pike joins the Wordplay podcast, where we answer the questions:

What two frames of mind do all authors experience?

What will depress James his whole life?

How is asking for a blurb like asking someone to have your children?

This may be our first PG 13 rated episode and you have Aprilynne to blame!

The good news is, you can win a signed copy of Wings, the book that started it all.

Since we couldn’t come up with a new way of picking a winner, we’re leaving it up to you. What would you do to get a signed copy of Wings? Best answer gets the book. Also, don’t forget we are extending our Just For Kids book giveaway to Halloween.

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Wordplay Podcast Episode 8: Just For Kids With Chris Grabenstein

October 17, 2011

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Halloween is almost here and the Wordplay crew is in the spirit. Chris Grabenstein joins us as we discuss how to make your writing scary, funny, and just plain entertaining. Then join us for a game of “Can you?” Which of the four authors smokes the other three in getting Neville Noodlenose out of one predicament and into another?

Add your own ending to the story to win Chris’s creepy new book. The Smokey Corridor.

No this podcast isn’t two days late. I er, um, just wanted to give you more time to post your creepy endings. Since I’ve been fighting and cold and might have posted this late, I’m extending the contest until Halloween. Winners from last week will be posted tomorrow morning.

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Wordplay Podcast Episode 7: Kiersten White, Beginnings, and Dialogue

October 9, 2011

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Kiersten White, author of Paranormalcy & Supernaturally joins the Wordplay team.

Learn why Kiersten lies to her kids, hides in the garage, and wrote the worst middle grade beginning ever. Oh, and we also discuss how to make your story beginning more gripping and what makes dialogue work.

Also follow Wordplay Podcast (and the Wordplay team!) To win a copy of Paranormalcy and Supernaturally.

Congratulations to last week’s winners:

diana is the winner of a paperback copy of Nightshade

Michael Runyan is the winner of a hardback copy of Wolfsbane

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Wordplay Podcast Episode 6: Andrea Cremer–Is Your Story Too Similar to Something Else? Reading While You Are Writing & Dealing With Rejection

October 3, 2011

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For the month of October, we thought it would be fun to have some some paranormal YA and MG authors. This week we have the awesome Andrea Cremer, author of:

Nightshade, Wolfsbane, and the upcoming Bloodrose. In this episode you can learn why a writer should try to break their hand or have a boring job, what the Zeitgeist Lottery is, and which authors can and can't read similar genres to what they are writing at the time. Her rejection stories from Andrea, James, Nathan, and Jeff. (Feel free to weep a little if you must!)

And . . . since we had such a great time giving away Robison Wells' novel, Variant. We're at it again. Cooment on the blog and you are automatically entered to win a paperback copy of Nightshade. If we get at least 30 comments, we'll throw in a hardback of Wolfbane--because we're just that nice. Okay, Andrea is just that nice. We're sort of cantankerous.

Drawing will be done October 9th, 2011.

Check in over the next few weeks when we will have Kiersten White, Aprilynne Pike, and Chris Grabenstein.

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