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Hi! Today I’m interviewing my fabulous critique partner, Kathleen Foucart. 1. Can you tell us a little about yourself? Where you are in your writing journey? What are you currently working on? Hi Jess’s readers! I’m Kathleen Foucart, one of Jess’s critique partners & a newly-agented writer. I’m represented by Irene Skolnick of The Irene Skolnick Literary Agency. I’m currently in that post-agented, pre-sale (I hope!) phase, which is basically like being in the pre-agented phase, but now I have someone else worrying about things like submission details and follow-ups. 🙂 My current project is a YA historical fantasy set in a Regency-era world titled THE TIES OF BLOOD. You can read more details about it, and a small excerpt on my website, as well as details about my other projects. And if you want to hear me whinge about that revision, you can follow me on Twitter or keep... Read More

Hi! Today’s topic is about when I write. I do most of my writing after 10pm. I always have, since I was a teenager. For whatever reason, my brain focuses really well in those wee hours. When I’m on deadline and things are rolling, I’ve stayed up until 4 or 5 in the morning. Even when I worked the day job, I tended to stay up way too late (2 am was pretty common)(I also tended to arrive closer to 10 than 9)(and I drank lots of tea). When I’m not writing, my favorite part of the day is reading for a few hours while The Playwright and Monkey sleep next to me. My schedule, if it can be called such, is basically: sleep until 11am, catch up on blogs and twitter and email, late lunch, work for a few hours OR take a nap OR run errands, dinner and social time to... Read More

Hi! I’m taking a day off from Craft Week to announce a contest! Are you, like me, super-jealous of everyone who’s posting pictures of their stacks of BEA books? Well. I happen to have TWO extra Fall Breathless Reads slipcases! See how shiny they are? I’m going to give ONE of them away now. It features ARCs of: ORIGIN by Jessica Khoury THE INNOCENTS by Lili Peloquin VENOM by Fiona Paul BLACK CITY by Elizabeth Richards FALLING KINGDOMS by Morgan Rhodes All you have to do to enter is leave a comment below! But I’d like to thank readers who have taken the time to support BORN WICKED. So, if you have written a review of BW (even if it wasn’t your cup of tea!) somewhere, include the link for 5 extra points. If you’ve posted the review in multiple places like your blog, Goodreads, Amazon, etc, I’m very grateful,... Read More

Hi! Today’s topic is how I write. I do 99% of my writing on my Macbook Air, Roo (named after E. Lockhart’s Ruby Oliver), which I bought myself as a book-deal present. Before that, I used a cheap little Asus netbook named Hermione. Having a computer that’s portable is super-important to me, especially now that I’m traveling more. But even when I was working full-time, I’d sometimes write on long metro rides or bring my netbook to the office and write for half an hour at Starbucks on my lunch break. The other 1% is basically brainstorming. I make lists of names or plot points when I’m first developing ideas. I jot down bits of dialogue while I’m on the metro. It’s fun to look through old notebooks later and see these story-seeds sprinkled everywhere. I know lots of people think Word is the devil, but I love it and *knock on wood*... Read More