MarcyKate Connolly

Middle Grade & Young Adult Author

Month: December, 2010

2011 — The Year of Revision

After spend­ing the last two years  writ­ing, I am offi­cially declar­ing 2011 The Year of Revi­sion. I will, of course, fin­ish writ­ing my two WIPs (CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE CYBORG and THE DEVIL IN THE DRAWING ROOM), but I do not intend to start any other new projects until I’ve thor­oughly revised all of my […]

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Sometimes You Need a Little Magic

This has been an odd hol­i­day sea­son for me. It’s the first one I’ve ever spent away from most of my fam­ily. And there’s no snow, which has always served as a nat­ural cue for Christ­mas. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not com­plain­ing that it’s 74 degrees out on Christ­mas Day, but it’s dif­fer­ent and […]

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Muppets + Christmas Carols = Awesome

For your lis­ten­ing plea­sure, two of my favorite things: Mup­pets & Christ­mas Car­ols HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

No Comments by  /  December 21, 2010  /  Posted in: featured, humor, Random Stuff, Social Media
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Writers Behaving Badly

Please excuse me while I put on my cranky pants for a few min­utes… Writ­ing is a soli­tary sort of craft. But every once in a while each of has to take our brand new shiny draft out into the world for feed­back from other writ­ers and read­ers. This is the sin­gle most dif­fi­cult thing […]

1 Comment by  /  December 7, 2010  /  Posted in: Social Media, Writing
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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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