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This whole week we are featuring Grave Expectations here on EFG. We have a fantastic giveaway going on right now. Enter to win a copy of Grave Expectations (see below). Yesterday we heard from Sherri all about the experiences of writing mash-ups, and today we are going to have a little fun with Sherri! Coke [...]

This whole week we are featuring a new book called Grave Expectations by Sherri Browning Erwin. Today we are so pleased to share with you a guest blog post written by Sherri all about her experiences with writing mash-up novels. Grave Expectations is her second novel in which she took a classic (Great Expectations) and [...]

Lisa Schroeder’s latest book, The Day Before, was released on June 28.  Lisa wrote this guest blog about how and why she uses music in her books. Some of the reviews of THE DAY BEFORE have mentioned my use of songs (and movies in this case)and I thought it’d be fun to talk a little [...]

If I’d written to trends, my first YA novel never would have been published. That sounds pretty funny now, because Bones of Faerie is set in the aftermath of of a magical War between faeries and humans, and it combines two fairly trendy elements: faeries and post-apocalyptic fiction. But neither of those things were at [...]

The Future of Publishing by Jon Skovron If I am at home and working on a project and suddenly realize I need to re-read The Curious Case of Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson for research, I just pick up my iPad, download it from the Apple Book Store, and ten minutes [...]

Marketing Is a Moving Target By Saundra Mitchell For all we talk about marketing, nobody really knows how it all works. If there were a key, an absolute path to marketing success, every book would be a bestseller. Midlist titles would never suddenly become lead titles; lead titles would never fail to perform. But they [...]

Material Girls By Natalie Zaman and Charlotte Bennardo The jig is up. Char and I. Love. Stuff. And somehow, that materialistic streak (not too wide, we hope!) found it’s way into our debut YA novel SIRENZ. Clothes, shoes, gadgets, accessories are essential to the story, and we were excited to get some cool bling to [...]

The Arts and Crafts of Self-Promotion By Sarah Darer Littman Being a writer these days requires an almost Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde-like personality. On the one hand, you must be comfortable spending long periods of time in seclusion, capable of enormous feats of self-discipline to get your butt in the chair and fill that [...]

A Survival Guide to Minimalist Self-Promotion By Caragh M. O’Brien I can get all girly and excited with the best of them, but the prospect of self-promoting my book did not delight me. I hid. Spurned advice. Guffawed in ignorance and squeamish pride. Yet more than a year after my YA debut Birthmarked was released, [...]

Arts and Crafts- The Klasky Way By Mindy Klasky After publishing twelve novels, I thought that I had the “swag” thing down. I was a goddess at printing up bookmarks and postcards, about sending out free, signed bookplates to anyone (and everyone!) who asked. For some of my novels, I created other treats — personalized [...]

I’d like to start by thanking Maryanne for inviting me to participate in Camp Eve. The last time I went to summer camp I won a trophy for my newfound archery skills, kissed a freckle-faced girl by the lake in the moonlight and got eleven stitches in my knee. It was quite a formative week. [...]

Fun of Writing Beth Fantaskey Once upon a time – last spring, to be precise – I had a major freak out. Like a lot of people, I’m prone to minor freak outs, which happen to me on a pretty regular basis. But this was a BIG freak out. The kind that lasts a few [...]

The Rabbit Hole and the Fun of Writing By Sheela Chari When I first thought about writing a post for this topic, I wondered, Do I tell people what writing REALLY is about? Because we all know that most days, it’s NOT fun. Regardless of where you are in your writing career, you might be [...]

Telling Secrets Jennifer R. Hubbard Since writing The Secret Year, I’ve done a fair amount of talking and thinking about secrets. I’ve discussed secrecy as a plot device; I’ve shared author secrets. But today I’m thinking of a whole different angle: the relationship between reader and writer. People find secrets compelling. And often, what a [...]

Winter Stories by Janni Lee Simner The girl knelt by the old man’s bed, holding his hand. “Grampa,” she said, as sun glinted off the snow outside, “tell me a story. Tell how you walked among the Wailing Pines. How you wove a magic cloak to protect against their tears.” Always before, his eyes had [...]