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 I'd sold...

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 series book...

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. I'll be starting line edits...

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 at both his...

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 both my writing...

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). It's a...

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 cover. Thanks, so much....

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...

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, but...

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 questions your...

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 not updated here though...

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 blah,...

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...

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...

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...