Posts Tagged ‘women’s fiction’
FUZZY SLIPPER CONFERENCE!
This is the second year in a row I’m attending the Muse Online Writer’s Conference. This year is special because I’m attending as a published author.
Today is the second day of the weeklong conference and I’m already filled with great information, ideas, and inspiration.
My only complaint is I may have registered for too many classes!
Choosing was so difficult. I thought, okay, I’ll squeeze in that forum, too. In all, I’m taking seven Forum workshops and seven chat workshops. The forum workshops are weeklong courses, with assignments, discussions, questions, and answers all posted on an electronic list. It’s available 24/7, interactive, and intense.
The Chat workshops are one-hour events scheduled at a specific time. All participants meet in an electronic chat room and posts questions for an expert – one-by-one, as a moderator allows. The expert answers in a fast-paced give and take.
Some topics for the workshops I’m taking include craft-based courses such as 12 Stages of the Writer’s Adventure and Assaulting A Writer’s Thinking. Others focus on the business-side of publishing, such as Website Makeover Workshop and What Writers Need to Know About Book Distribution.
In addition to the way too many workshops I’m delving into this week, I earned on of ten coveted spots to pitch my new middle grade chapter book to a literary agent. I’m excited and nervous. I’ll let you what I learn from that experience later in the week. Wish me luck!
Off to do my homework!
Lisa Lipkind Leibow
Author of Smart Women’s Fiction
www.LLLeibow.com
MY FIRST BOOK SIGNING EVENT – ALBANY, SEPT. 2009
Sorry it took me so long to post these photos! Things have been so busy on the Double Out and Back Virtual Tour ’09 that I haven’t had a chance to fill you in on my live appearances. My publisher set up a fantastic event at the Borders Books, Crossgates Mall in Albany, New York. Six, Red Rose authors, including me, had a blast meeting fans, signing books and cd’s of e-books, and taking Albany by storm.
A few lucky purchasers took home their own teddy bear wearing a t-shirt with the Double Out and Back or other Red Rose covers. Not only did this event help to get the word out about my debut novel and other Red Rose titles, it was a great opportunity for me to get to know some of my fellow authors – a spectacular group of ladies. Pictured from left to right: Nika Dixon, Debbie Gould, LaVerne Thompson, Sam Cheever, Pat McDermott, and yours truly, Lisa Lipkind Leibow.
National Book Festival 2009
I had a fantastic time at the National Book Festival on Saturday, September 27, 2009. I volunteered this year and was assigned to the Fiction and Fantasy Tent — the perfect place for me! I got to meet John Grisham, Jodi Picoult, and Jeanette Walls.
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09/01/09 Zensanity http://zensanity.blogspot.com/
09/02/09 The Fantasy Pages http://fantasy-pages.blogspot.com/
09/03/09 Book Madness http://bookmadness.wordpress.com/
09/04/09 Book Tours and More http://booktoursandmore.blogspot.com/
09/07/09 The Plot http://theplotline.wordpress.com/
09/08/09 The Plot http://theplotline.wordpress.com/
09/09 The Writer’s Life http://www.thewriterslife.blogspot.com/
09/10/09 Divine Caroline
09/11/09 Café of Dreams http://cafeofdreams.blogspot.com/
EXCLUSIVE SNEAK PREVIEW BEFORE IT HITS THE BOOK STORES
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Not every woman who rides the fertility treatment roller coaster winds up like Octomom.
Who will find friends, family, and fertility?
Three women’s lives are intricately intertwined, as Amelia Schwartz and Summer Curtis struggle with the complex dynamics of intrafamily embryo adoption, and Chandy Markum strives to make her patients’ dreams a reality.
After more than a decade, of mourning her parents’ deaths, anal-retentive Amelia Schwartz decides to take control of her life, pursuing single motherhood via embryo adoption. While her fertility doctor, Chandy, is preoccupied with the destruction of the cosmopolitan Cape Town of her youth and her first love in apartheid-torn South Africa, believing all is lost, her niece, a young, married, overachieving attorney Summer Curtis, juggles zealous career ambitions, demanding bosses, and friction with her husband over family and fertility issues. They must confront the painful reality that, no matter what technology humans devise to manipulate reproduction, prolong life, and construct family units, they have not yet mastered control over their beginnings and endings.
Thrown all into this is one story that can make or break. Are you up to it?
Judging My Book By Its Cover
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The past two weeks have been filled with working with my line editor and my cover artist. The manuscript is almost ready to be formatted and taken out of my hands. This will be a relief, because I think there’s something wrong with me — I could keep tinkering with the text forever.
As for the cover for Double Out and Back, I’m thrilled with it. I hope you think it looks great, too! It was exciting to have some input on its look. Most authors I’ve heard speak of their book covers have said they had no say on the matter. I guess it’s one of the “perks” of working with a small press.
Thanks for sharing this journey with me.
UPDATE ON DOUBLE OUT AND BACK
Exciting news! My debut novel is making its way along the road to publication. I was interviewed over the Memorial Day Weekend by KT Bishop. www.kenibird.blogspot.com.
I have made some updates to my website, too. I added a sneak peek of Double Out and Back. You can find it at www.LisaLipkindLeibow.com
The latest development is the release of a video book trailer. Check it out!
THE ROSES OF PROSE
Here is an invitation to a new group blog. I’ll be a contributing member! I hope you stop by to check it out.