Today I have Meg Medina with her book The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind!
TCR: Can you describe your book in ten words or less?
MM: Girl overcomes a mountain of myths, suffers, loves, saves herself.
TCR: What has surprised you the most about the publishing process?
MM: I have loved this process, but you’re right, it’s full of surprises.
The good: The world of children’s books and YA is filled with talented, generous people, who love books and want to help.
The bad: You do not become a millionaire...or even financially able to leave your day job for a long while.
The ugly: Once you start publishing, you have to keep up a pace of writing new manuscripts that can be grueling. That magic time of the first novel is over.Also, you will spend a lot of time supporting your own books through events, social media, promotional materials, etc. Often you will ask, "but when do I write?"
Still, I wouldn't trade this life for anthing.
TCR: What was your reaction when you first saw your cover?
MM: Girl overcomes a mountain of myths, suffers, loves, saves herself.
TCR: What has surprised you the most about the publishing process?
MM: I have loved this process, but you’re right, it’s full of surprises.
The good: The world of children’s books and YA is filled with talented, generous people, who love books and want to help.
The bad: You do not become a millionaire...or even financially able to leave your day job for a long while.
The ugly: Once you start publishing, you have to keep up a pace of writing new manuscripts that can be grueling. That magic time of the first novel is over.Also, you will spend a lot of time supporting your own books through events, social media, promotional materials, etc. Often you will ask, "but when do I write?"
Still, I wouldn't trade this life for anthing.
TCR: What was your reaction when you first saw your cover?
MM: I never like my covers when I first see them. It’s like seeing myself in film or something. Yikes. I’ve learned that this is a knee jerk reaction. In time, I truly love my covers.
TCR: Where can we stay up to date on you and your book?
TCR: Where can we stay up to date on you and your book?
MM: www.megmedina.com. I’m also on twitter http://twitter.com/#!/meg_medina
and on Facebook. I keep an author page on Amazon, too.
and on Facebook. I keep an author page on Amazon, too.
This one is available March 13th, 2012! Scroll down to read the official summary!
3 comments:
The books sounds amazing. Definitely going in my wants list!
I like the 10-word book description question! :)
We have to wait until March? How cruel! But thank you for the insights on the writer's world...now I will treasure my time with my unpublished first novels instead of wondering why they have to be so hard to write :)
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