Tanya Egan Gibson's Blog

• The Monster at the End of This Blog

  August 7, 2009

  • One Little Golden Book on my daughter's bookshelf is not like the others.  The protagonist starts talking before the copyright information is displayed.  He talks about the wordy copyright page.  He calls attention to the fact that he is, indeed, in a book.  And then... he talks directly to the reader, warning, "There is a monster at the end of this book!"The protagonist is Grover, ...
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• Take Joy, Go Play, Be Kind

  August 2, 2009

  • More than anything, you want to be published.  You know how important it is to understand the "business" side of things, so you do everything you should.  And more. You read agents' blogs. You subscribe to Publishers Marketplace.  You post on three boards for writers.  You have an Excel spreadsheet devoted to tracking the comings and goings of agents and editors, which you dutifully ...
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• The Three P's of Conference Attendance (Or Why a Writer's Conference is Not a Reality TV Show)

  July 20, 2009

  • Ah, conference season!  You walk in, pitch memorized, nametagged, and first five pages in hand, ready to......berate Very Famous Editor during a morning one-on-one for not recognizing your manifest talent?  ...interrupt lunch conversation between your roommate and Very Famous Agent about their mutual adoration of labradoodles to "unobtrusively" slip in a plug for your novel? ...
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