My writing blahs were blown away last week at the Quebec Writers' Federation Gala in Montreal. It was even bigger and better than I'd expected - definitely worth the drive. Mingling with other writers, celebrating local literature, consuming free wine and hors d'oeuvres... it was just what I needed to renew my interest in the written word. After the food… Continue reading QWF Gala
Tag: children’s books
Fall Faves
Writing isn't going so well for me just now--I'm scattered among different projects and I keep going back and forth between two possible plot directions in my sequel to All Good Children. Not good. I don't like writing blind. I don't want to whine -- that's why I haven't blogged in a month -- so I'll write about other people's… Continue reading Fall Faves
Feast and Famine
In 2008, after several years of writing for children, I had the good fortune to sell two manuscripts in the same year: a picture book to Kids Can Press in the spring; and a middle-grade novel to Orca Book Publishers in the fall. I did not understand the bleak book market at that time and I had no idea how… Continue reading Feast and Famine
Hard Work Rewarded
The YA novel I've been working on for the past year, All Good Children, has found its home with Orca Book Publishers. My editor loves it and sold it to her board and they're already asking if there will be a sequel. (And just so you know, my editor rejected other manuscripts in between Walking Backward and this new one.… Continue reading Hard Work Rewarded
Good News
First, my plane did not crash. (Make that planes, five of them, and not a single one crashed. What luck!) So I am back at home, alive, perfectly able to edit my draft novel/monstrosity before anyone reads it. But after two weeks vacation, I really don't feel like it. We're having a mild spell in central Canada, the days are getting longer… Continue reading Good News
Catherine Austen 