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Posted by Justine at 1:01, June 19th, 2007 under Bloggery, Writing goals & milestones, Writing life |
Posted by Justine at 17:12, June 10th, 2007 under Bloggery, Excuses, Whingeing, Writing goals & milestones, Writing life |
My big news is that my next two books are going to be published by
Bloomsbury USA. That's right the great Aussie cricket mangosteen monkey knife fighting fairy YA novel has found a home! Not to mention an actual title: The Ultimate Fairy Book.
I am so excited I cannot sit still. I'm bouncing as I type this. I am all over with yays!
My new editor is Melanie Cecka who is wonderful. We had a three-hour lunch last year where we learned conclusively that we are each girls after each other's heart. Hot sauce! Mexican food! Dessert! Love of many of the same books!
The whole team at Bloomsbury are incredibly impressive and seem to be almost as excited ...
Posted by Justine at 11:39, June 7th, 2007 under How To Ditch Your Fairy, New York City/USA, Praising, Vainglory, Writing goals & milestones, Young Adult literature |
Posted by Justine at 13:16, April 6th, 2007 under Scott's books, Writing goals & milestones |
Scott's working so hard that bicycles have started growing out of his head:
I'm afraid of what's next . . .
Posted by Justine at 18:31, March 28th, 2007 under Scott's books, Writing goals & milestones |
Posted by Justine at 0:16, March 23rd, 2007 under Magic or Madness trilogy, Writing goals & milestones |
Remember
way back when I asked you to help me to decide what to write next? You all told me the fairy book, which I dutifully wrote, but now I'm feeling all indecisive again. Can you help me out?
Here are the options:
The great Australian feminist monkey knife-fighting cricket Elvis mangosteen fairy novel . This one is written.
The compulsive liar book narrated by a---you guessed it---compulsive liar. Downside: will involve lots of outlining. I hates outlining. Plus it's going to be so hard! Upside: whenever I mention this one folks get very excited.
The beginnings of cricket historical romance. Downside: lots of research and all my cricket history books are in storage in Sydney. Upside: yumminess. I am besotted ...
Posted by Justine at 8:07, March 16th, 2007 under Liar, Manga, Research, Writing goals & milestones |
Posted by Justine at 14:25, January 10th, 2007 under Food, How To Ditch Your Fairy, Liquids, Listening, Praising, Sydney/Australia, Viewing, Writing goals & milestones |
Posted by Justine at 12:56, January 9th, 2007 under Bloggery, How To Ditch Your Fairy, Vainglory, Writing goals & milestones |
Posted by Justine at 9:01, January 8th, 2007 under Cricket, Excuses, How To Ditch Your Fairy, Viewing, Writing goals & milestones, Writing life |
It's been another good year for me professionally and I will now skite about it: My second and third books, Magic Lessons and Daughters of Earth, were both published to some very nice
reviews and
reader responses. The whole Magic or Madness trilogy sold to
Editora Record in Brazil, Magic or Madness and Magic Lessons sold to
Mondadori in Italy, while Magic Lessons and Magic's Chld sold to
Amarin in Thailand. And then there was the recent sale of the trilogy to the
Science Fiction Book Club for a 3-in-1. Not to mention Magic Lessons being on the shortlist for the Aurealis.
It was a great year for
Scott who hit the ...
Posted by Justine at 9:50, December 31st, 2006 under Bloggery, Cricket, Daughters of Earth, How To Ditch Your Fairy, Last Day of the Year, Magic or Madness trilogy, Praising, Scott's books, Sport, State of the World, Sydney/Australia, Vainglory, Writing goals & milestones |
Posted by Justine at 8:41, November 21st, 2006 under How To Ditch Your Fairy, Magic or Madness trilogy, Writing goals & milestones |
Posted by Justine at 11:29, November 14th, 2006 under Bloggery, Publishing business, Writing goals & milestones |
Posted by Justine at 13:38, November 10th, 2006 under Food, How To Ditch Your Fairy, Magic or Madness trilogy, Mangosteens, Scott's books, Travelling, Writing goals & milestones |
Blessed release: Magic's Child is now on its way into Polly Watson's genius copyediting hands. Thank Elvis!
I confess I was worried. Especially when Penguin's spring catalogue arrived with Magic's Child listed as if it was an actual finished book. Gah! I thought. Booksellers will be ordering a non-existent book!
Well, it exists now---in finished form even! And, if you don't object to a moment of skiting, it's not too foul, not too foul at all. Phew!
Rather than thanking all the peoples what helped (their moment of glory is in the book's acks) I'm gunna list the music what got me through the last few gruelling weeks:
Benny Goodman Sextet (with Charlie Christian prominently featured)
Billie Holiday
Blur (Think Tank---thanks
Andrew)
Cat Power (Moon Pix---thanks ...
Posted by Justine at 2:25, August 28th, 2006 under Listening, Magic or Madness trilogy, Praising, Whingeing, Writing goals & milestones |
Posted by Justine at 18:05, August 5th, 2006 under Bloggery, Cricket, Frippery, Magic or Madness trilogy, New York City/USA, State of the World, Writing goals & milestones |
That sound? Is me running by fast with my wings asingin'
Silence is because I been:
working, working, working on the making good of
book,
seeing Bill Clinton walk down 50th street to the sound of a hundred school kids letting out I-am-near-a-rock-star squeals,
plotting out my liar book,
hanging out with the wondrous
house guests,
seeing the
New York Liberty (mostly) get beaten at Madison Square Garden,
attending the launch of Catherine Gilbert Murdoch's Dairy Queen. How good is this new young adult book? Very very very. It has cows, gridiron, dentistry and true love and the most wonderful first person protag I've come across in an age. I heart DJ.
In the meantime here are some intermanet webby things of great interest:
a ...
Posted by Justine at 21:04, June 17th, 2006 under Writing goals & milestones |
There's a
fun profile I did up on
Norm Geras's blog (a blog I discovered via
Rjurik. Thank you, Rjurik!). I went to read Norm's words of wisdom on cricket and stayed cause it's most excellent.
I've already been asked what I mean by giving the answer "passion" to the question of what's a person's worst fault as well as their best quality. I'm with W. B. Yeats on "passionate intensity": every day someone somewhere is killed because of someone else's passion. On the other hand every day someone somewhere is creating something beautiful because of that passion.
Marrije enjoys Magic Lessons and has many many questions for the final book in the trilogy, which although smart and ...
Posted by Justine at 8:41, April 22nd, 2006 under Bloggery, Magic or Madness trilogy, Vainglory, Writing goals & milestones |
Posted by Justine at 10:57, April 20th, 2006 under Bloggery, Magic or Madness trilogy, Ranting, Whingeing, Writing goals & milestones, Writing life, Zombies |
I just pressed the send button, and now Magic! Magic! Magic! Oi! Oi! Oi! is winging its way across the Pacific, and then across mainland USA, all the way to Hudson Street in New York City. Except that, you know, technology, being what it is, my baby is already there. Freaky, eh?
I can now watch the Sri Lanka v South Africa One Day International in good conscience. Who am I barracking for? Sri Lanka, natch. But it would prolly be more interesting for the competition if South Africa won. But, frankly, without Makhaya Ntini South Africa just ain't that interesting. Even if Sean Pollock does look uncannily like my husband.
Sean Pollock aka
Scott Westerfeld (
original source)
Can ...
Posted by Justine at 21:45, January 24th, 2006 under Cricket, Magic or Madness trilogy, New York City/USA, Sport, Writing goals & milestones |
Posted by Justine at 20:40, December 31st, 2005 under Bloggery, Last Day of the Year, Magic or Madness trilogy, Praising, Reading, Scott's books, Sydney/Australia, Vainglory, Writing goals & milestones |
The
Daughters of Earth manuscript was finished, packed in a box, and posted back to the tender ministrations of its publisher yesterday (only a couple of days late). Magic Lessons is also back with its publisher (on time) and about to be typeset. It should be an ARC in a few weeks. Yay!
Thanks to
Tim Pratt and Pauline Dickinson and the good folks of Sydney Uni library's Rare Books (why didn't I think of them in the first place? [Slaps forehead]) for coming through with the page numbers. And thanks to everyone for being kind during these last few weeks of way, way, way too much work. Now I can go back to writing the new novel. ...
Posted by Justine at 9:11, June 22nd, 2005 under Daughters of Earth, Magic or Madness trilogy, Writing goals & milestones |
Now there are
two manuscripts sitting on my desk glaring at me, waiting to be checked and made perfect. The pages for the Australian edition of Magic or Madness just arrived. Corrections on it and Daughters of Earth are due the same day. At least morm isn't 800 pages long and full of complicated footnotes and bibliography and other irritating scholarly apparatus. Stupid scholarly apparatus.
There go my fingernails.
Posted by Justine at 12:53, June 7th, 2005 under Daughters of Earth, Magic or Madness trilogy, Writing goals & milestones |
There's an 800 page manuscript sitting on my desk. It's so very big. The biggest ms. I've ever had anything to do with. The enormity of it is paralysing me.
Daughters of Earth, my anthology of feminist sf stories and essays, has to be checked and made as perfect as possible in a terrifyingly short amount of time if we're going to launch it at WisCon next year. I have to photocopy 11 essays to send to their authors to check. Then I have to read through and correct the whole thing.
I have four unsharpened red pencils. I have a sharpener. I have the Chicago Manual of Style. I have
Scott's moral support.
Wish me luck!
Posted by Justine at 13:13, June 3rd, 2005 under Daughters of Earth, Whingeing, Writing goals & milestones |
some stupendously good news
Posted by Justine at 1:23, April 17th, 2005 under Magic or Madness trilogy, Musings, Writing goals & milestones |
the sequel to Magic or Madness is finished
Posted by Justine at 1:36, January 26th, 2005 under Daughters of Earth, Magic or Madness trilogy, Musings, Writing goals & milestones |
