The new kitten People always ask writers, "Where do you get your ideas?" (Okay, not many people have asked me that yet, but once I have more titles to my credit, they'll start asking.) Really good ideas for a book - the sort of premises Michael Chricton is famous for - don't come along every day. But bad ideas… Continue reading Where do you get your Ideas?
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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
In Defence of Outlines
I’ve met so many writers who don’t outline. They say, “If I knew what was going to happen, I wouldn’t care enough to write the story.” Those words always make me feel odd and out of place, for I am not that way. I outline. My outlines are twenty pages long. Even before I outline,… Continue reading In Defence of Outlines
Catherine Austen 