Upcoming classes and events
I'm teaching a class next week on what authors need to know about the publishing business. I devised the curriculum based on everything my author friends don't know about publishing, everything my publishing friends assume that authors should know, and what I learned from a decade of doing both. I'm covering advances, royalties, sub rights, multi-book deals, relationships with editors and publicists, what an author is supposed to do when they get copyedits or proofs, and a bunch more. The class is online, so you can attend no matter where you live. Register here.
For those of you writers in Texas, I'm also teaching a craft workshop at the Writing Barn next month. And for those of you who are YA fans, come see me and a stellar lineup of authors at the North Texas Teen Book Fest in March!
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Introducing... We Made Uranium!
I edited an anthology of personal essays about the University of Chicago's infamous Scavenger Hunt. It's called We Made Uranium!, and it's out on April 16. If this cover strikes you as wacky, well, just wait until you read the stories themselves. You can pre-order your copy from the University of Chicago Press now, and as a special offer to newsletter subscribers, get 25% off your pre-order with the code URANIUM25.
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The Book Engineer
Check out the website for my book development agency the Book Engineer. I am extremely proud of it! If you are yourself a writer, I especially recommend this page.
The Book Engineer takes everything I know about creating books—as an author, an editor, and a brand manager—and puts it all in one place. Here are a few examples of people whom the Book Engineer is designed to help:
- Brands, influencers, and storytellers across a range of media who are looking to add book publishing under their umbrella.
- Editors with books under contract in need of an outside hand to get those projects into ideal publishable shape.
- Agents representing clients who need editorial guidance to create the strongest possible book proposal to take out on submission.
- Publishers looking for projects designed specially for them, to fulfill a market need.
- Authors who want help in conceptualizing and outlining their next book, or want editorial feedback on a draft.
Learn more about how the Book Engineer can work with you here.
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A few new accolades
I'm so grateful to the Irish Times for saying that If You Don't Have Anything Nice to Say "should be required reading for anyone using social media." (And, speaking as someone who just the other day received a tweet from a stranger that said, "This is disgusting and you should be ashamed of yourself," I couldn't agree more.)
Meanwhile, I'm honored that Once Was a Time has been selected for the 2019 NYC Reads 365 list. (And that's in addition to the five state lists it already appears on!) I love hearing that people are reading and responding to my books.
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