MarcyKate Connolly

Middle Grade & Young Adult Author

Month: March, 2011

Did You Know Shakespeare Invented Teenagers?

If you’ve been pay­ing atten­tion, you may have an inkling that I have a slight obses­sion with Shake­speare. Case in point, the opera I wrote about what hap­pened after Ham­let and the threads of Ham­let weaved through­out THE GHOST WRITER. So when I saw this arti­cle this morn­ing, it kind of made my day.

No Comments by  /  March 30, 2011  /  Posted in: books, Theatre, Writing
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Free Stuff Friday: QueryTracker.net

In a Nut­shell: QueryTracker.net is a vet­ted data­base of agents and pub­lish­ers which allows writ­ers to track and orga­nize their sub­mis­sions to said agents and pub­lish­ers. Also pro­vides inter­est­ing sta­tis­tics on response times, etc., and a com­mu­nity forum.

1 Comment by  /  March 25, 2011  /  Posted in: Free stuff

Show Me The Voice Blogfest Contest!

I entered another on con­test on the fab­u­lous Brenda Drake’s blog, the Show Me the Voice Blogfest Con­test judged by lit­er­ary agent Natalie Fis­cher! Help me pol­ish my entry for THE GHOST WRITER by com­ment­ing on the first 250 words below!

Thanks in advance for your feedback!

4 Comments by  /  March 20, 2011  /  Posted in: contest, featured, Writing

Road Trip, Part Deux – Day #6

AND WE’RE OFFICIALLY BACK! Today it rained. All. Day. Long. Need­less to say, walk­ing around Her­shey Park was ruled out, but we did drive by it and got to see the fun Her­shey Kisses street lamps and the amuse­ment park. Also, Milo expe­ri­enced snow for the first time in his life: He’s not thrilled about it, but […]

No Comments by  /  March 11, 2011  /  Posted in: Commuting, Random Stuff
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Road Trip, Part Deux – Day #5

We blew through four states today — Vir­ginia, West Vir­ginia, Mary­land, and landed in Her­shey, Penn­syl­va­nia. And we found a Pan­era Bread! I can’t believe how much I missed Panera’s! Again, the ride was rel­a­tively unevent­ful — there was a ton of rain (through all four states, no less). The pup­pies were very good (and sleepy) […]

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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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