by Joelle | Jun 17, 2009 | Daily Writings
Lately, the wonderful and funny writer Eileen Cook and I have been commiserating about the fact that while we have the best job in the world, we also don’t have enough to do writing-wise and it makes us blue at times. I know I had the misconception that once...
by Joelle | Jun 16, 2009 | Daily Writings
I am starting to worry about a disturbing book trend. Okay, maybe not a trend, but this is the second ARC I’ve read in the last month where the book doesn’t actually have an ending. Yes, these are both the first books in a series, but the beauty of a good...
by Joelle | Jun 15, 2009 | Need to Read
Funny…I just looked at the book cover to get the title because I had no idea what it was! I picked this book up for one reason only. Dame Mary Stewart wrote it. It’s set during Arthurian times and based on a legend (which I didn’t know until the end...
by Joelle | Jun 13, 2009 | Daily Writings
I bet y’all thought I forgot about this. It’s been sometime since I asked for your help thinking of some sort of school/activity/career for my main character, Jamie, in my current WIP. I didn’t forget…I was just editing Restoring Harmony....
by Joelle | Jun 11, 2009 | Uncategorized
Some of the best advice I’ve seen on keeping a blog is, “Make it easy for people to comment.” It sounds simple, but it appears to me that bloggers are so worried about dreaded spam that they want me to jump through hoops just to comment. I...
by Joelle | Jun 10, 2009 | Daily Writings
A lot of you have emailed and asked me who did the cover for my book. Until now, I didn’t know, but I am happy to say that my editor has passed on that info. The artist’s name is Hugh Syme and he has some wonderful work up online for your viewing pleasure...
by Joelle | Jun 9, 2009 | Daily Writings
POW! Going, going, gone! That is the sound of my edits going off into cyberspace and landing in my editor’s inbox. Ahhhhhhh…..life is good! I am basically way too fried to tell y’all all the stuff I want to, all the wonderful things I learned about...
by Joelle | Jun 7, 2009 | Daily Writings
If you’ve been hanging around here for a while, or you have clicked on the above link to read about Restoring Harmony, then you know the story of my friend, Sarah Tradewell, the fiddler who looks just like my character, Molly in RH (who is also a fiddler)....
by Joelle | Jun 6, 2009 | Daily Writings
Not only do I not have to get dressed, but apparently, I don’t even have to comb my hair! If you’ve emailed me and I haven’t responded, it’s because I have been editing. I will surface eventually and LOVE to hear all your nice comments about my...
by Joelle | Jun 3, 2009 | Daily Writings
I am thrilled to share with you the cover* of my very first novel, Restoring Harmony! I am so excited because I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this cover! It says everything I could want the cover to say. Click on it to see it bigger. *Still slightly in progress as some enhancement...
by Joelle | Jun 1, 2009 | Daily Writings
Guess what? Just found out that Restoring Harmony is going to be a Summer 2010 release! So excited, as I thought it wasn’t coming out until the fall. Also, any time now, I should get a sneak peek at the cover! It may be a while before I have anything I can post,...
by Joelle | May 30, 2009 | Daily Writings
I am on a very, very tight deadline, which of course explains why I’m procrastinating here on my blog. As I do this edit, I think I will add to this post all the things I’m learning. Free advice for you! What I have learned so far: 1. If your editor...
by Joelle | May 28, 2009 | Daily Writings
I know…I know…I have not been a good blogger. I have not updated Need To Read much because I’ve read a bunch of stuff that I either wasn’t that enthusiastic about or was adult fiction that I didn’t really feel like blogging about. I have...
by Joelle | May 22, 2009 | Daily Writings
After I signed with my brilliant agent, I sent him a long letter (yeah, it could probably have been cut by 30%) telling him all the things I would do as a writer to make his job easier and to help sell books – like publicity stuff, and meeting deadlines, and...
by Joelle | May 20, 2009 | Daily Writings
When I started college, I was a theatre major. My grandmother kept telling me to take classes like accounting and typing (yes, this was way back when everyone used typewriters and computers were still in the future). I was not about to take anything so that I could...
by Joelle | May 18, 2009 | Need to Read
I know I haven’t posted here much, but I’ve been reading some adult fiction and also the couple of YAs I’ve tried just did not work for me. However, I am HAPPY to say that Audrey, Wait! is fantastic. I first heard about it on Meg Cabot’s blog,...
by Joelle | May 15, 2009 | Daily Writings
This picture was taken this morning. I was laying in the sunshine on the porch and my cat Grinder came out and climbed up onto my chest and licked my face. After a while, he crawled under this coffee table so that he could get into the box. He had never met a box he...
by Joelle | May 15, 2009 | Daily Writings
Joëlle Anthony is a writer and sometimes-actress who currently lives on a tiny island in British Columbia. Her debut novel, Restoring Harmony, was long listed for the American Library Association’s Best New Young Adult Fiction 2010, and chosen as the Feature Title for...
by Joelle | May 13, 2009 | Daily Writings
Probably not, but over at my husband’s photo blog, there’s a great story to go with this picture/quilt. You can see it bigger there, too.
by Joelle | May 11, 2009 | Daily Writings
People say that writing is solitary. For the most part I agree, but I have had a bit of a change of heart lately. For years I wrote alone, only having one or two people read my stuff when I thought it was finished. I learned a lot, but it seemed like I did a lot of...
by Joelle | May 8, 2009 | Daily Writings
This picture is the one that I said looks like my superhero character Enviro Avenger. The photographer noticed that people were clicking over from my site to hers and emailed and offered to let me put it up here! Cool, eh? You may have noticed that not only have I not...
by Joelle | May 5, 2009 | Daily Writings
Every once in a while there are just so many cool things that I think y’all would like to see, but might miss. So here are a few links for you. First, I would be remiss not to mention my first interview (again), right? Do stop by because I’m so much more...
by Joelle | May 5, 2009 | My Nonfiction
This was originally published in the SCBWI bulletin in 2009. I wanted to cut and paste their formatted version, but their new site kept crashing my computer. Hopefully, it will get fixed because it looks really cool over there now! Avoiding the Character Cliché By...
by Joelle | May 4, 2009 | Daily Writings
Guess what? I just did my very first author interview! Stop on over at Steph Bowe’s blog and be impressed. No, not with me! With Steph. She’s a fifteen year old YA writer and book reviewer and she’s got a fantastic blog going over there, so...
by Joelle | May 1, 2009 | Daily Writings
I’m hoping you all will celebrate the release of my debut YA novel, Restoring Harmony with me and to show you how thankful I am for your support, I’m going to make it fun! There will be several contests and giveaways. And here are a few rules guidelines...
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