Uncreated Conscience

Yakko: It’s that time again! Wakko: To make bizarre faces? Dot: To encourage kids to send us candy? Yakko: No, it’s time to learn today’s lesson! And to find out what it is, we turn to the Wheel of Morality! Wheel of Morality, turn, turn, turn, tell us the lesson that we should learn. -Animaniacs, [...]

I like the alliterative quality of that blog title. Anyway, last night on YAlitchat, I announced the requests for full manuscripts from the 18 partial winners from the New Adult Contest. They are as follows: Elissa Hoole THE DHARMA BUM BUSINESS Kristan Hoffman TWENTYSOMEWHERE Luke Tennis BERNARDO THE DAREDEVIL Rae Carson REBEL PRINCESS Nicole Beattie [...]

Some housekeeping! Cap’n Sweet Valley and I have reached a decision on which manuscripts from the partial winners we would like to see and I will be giving the names on tonight’s #YAlitchat on Twitter, after an interview with literary agent Elana Roth. Hosted by the lovely Georgia McBride, make sure to stay until the [...]

Bloomsbury seems to be on everyone’s shit list right now, owing to the second time they’ve white-washed a cover. The first fiasco involved Justine Larbalestier‘s very excellent LIAR, which was thankfully rectified. But as Aja Romano pointed out, Larbalestier is an established author with an established online following–enough to warrant a change in cover. Poor [...]

One can consider skiing cross-training, right? Also, I just have to point out the hilarity of what I was wearing (non-ironically) this weekend. Picture below the cut.

Our first early morning run completed! Read about it here.

A few days ago, I wrote about rejecting manuscripts we felt were too YA for our list. But I’ve also said we wouldn’t turn down really great YA that’s solidly for the YA market. Are we being contradictory? Not intentionally. Certain YA novels are really wonderful and truly belong on teen shelves but they can [...]

I’m sure you’ve heard about the devastating earthquake in Haiti. Please consider donating to an organization to help these poor people out. I donated to Doctors without Borders (an organization Bear has considered joining after finishing med school). As that CNN article says, “The hospitals are gone” and “medical supplies and heavy equipment are desperately [...]

I have (perhaps stupidly) committed myself to another blog, in which my roommate and I will document our progress as we train for the 2011 marathon. Last night Psychic Roommate and I completed our first run around the Reservoir in Central Park. Read about it here! It’s a good thing we’ve started training. There are [...]

First, some exciting news! Cap’n Sweet Valley and I have acquired our first manuscript. Stay tuned for deal news. We’re pretty excited about this (for a number of reasons, possibly differing from each other’s). Second, some housekeeping news: please, please, PLEASE do not submit your manuscript to me via this website. The New Adult contest [...]