MarcyKate Connolly

Middle Grade & Young Adult Author

Month: July, 2009

My (Fake) Debut YA Cover

I sub­scribe to a num­ber of pub­lish­ing and agent blogs.  Today, one of them, had this bril­liant (and enter­tain­ing) idea: HOW TO CREATE YOUR DEBUT YA COVER Go to Fake Name Gen­er­a­tor. The name that appears is your author name. Go to Ran­dom Word Gen­er­a­tor. The word listed under “Ran­dom Verb” is your title. Go to Flick­rCC. Type […]

Progress Report—July 27

# OF WORDS WRITTEN THIS WEEK: 6,899 Some­how, dur­ing the course of the week, my pri­or­i­ties com­pletely shifted, though not nec­es­sar­ily for the worse.   The Good: I revised the syn­op­sis for GLOW again, and I fin­ished Chap­ter 1 of THE GHOST WRITER.  The Bad: I did not write another chap­ter in SHADOW, nor did I […]

Novel Excerpts Added!

Inter­ested in read­ing a lit­tle of my recently com­pleted novel, Glow? Or my cur­rent WIP, The Ghost Writer? Now you can — with newly added excerpts from Chap­ter 1 of each novel. Don’t for­get to vote about whether you’d turn the page!

My Dog Can Lick Her Eyeballs

Seri­ously. Here’s proof: [fla­gallery gid=2 name=“Gallery”] And a few more gra­tu­itous pug pics… just because it’s Tuesday.

Thank You for Being a Jerk.

I belong to a online cri­tique forum: I’ve received some won­der­ful feed­back that’s really helped to strengthen my writ­ing so I’m kind of a fan.  Recently, there’s been a rash of peo­ple who post pages for cri­tique and then blast the con­struc­tive crit­i­cisms they receive. It’s because of this that I feel a need to point […]

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    I’m a writer and arts admin­is­tra­tor liv­ing in New Eng­land with my hus­band and pugs. I’m also a cof­fee addict, vora­cious reader, and recur­ring com­muter. I occa­sion­ally blog at From the Write Angle and vol­un­teer as a mod­er­a­tor at AgentQueryConnect.com. Rep­re­sented by Suzie Townsend of New Leaf Lit­er­ary & Media. My debut novel MONSTROUS will be out from Harper­Collins Children’s Books in 2014!

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