March Book in a Week
A dozen people decided to go for the Book in the Week page-push this March. Despite the awful cold that was making the rounds and left some of our participants in bed rather than at their computer, the group still came up with 349 new pages.
It was neck and neck between Nancy Badger and Scott Berger near the end, but Scott surged ahead at the last moment, totaling 65 pages!
Let's hear it for all involved!
Sale
Nancy Lee Badger signed a contract with Whispers Publishing for her 30k word Scottish historical paranormal DRAGON'S CURSE.
Books Signing
Kelly Gay will signing her first novel, THE BETTER PART OF DARKNESS at Barnes & Noble, Streets at Southpoint Mall in Durham, NC on Firday, December 4th, 2009, starting at 7:30 PM.
Books Sold
Kelly Gay writing as Kelly Keaton sold DARKNESS BECOMES HER, (GODS & MONSTERS, Books 1 & 2), in which a hardened teen on the run searches for the truth about her monstrous heritage with a group of misfit kids in a post-apocalyptic New Orleans, a city state now run by the creatures of the night, to Simon Pulse for publication in Spring 2011.
Book Signing
HCRW authors Sabrina Jeffries and Deb Marlowe along with Michelle Willingham will be doing a book signing at the Brier Creek Barnes and Noble in Raleigh, NC on October 3rd at 1 pm. Hope to see you there!
Bookseller Pick
Kelly Gay's debut urban fantasy, THE BETTER PART OF DARKNESS, was chosen by SIBA, the Southern Indie Booksellers Alliance, as a fall 2009 Okra Pick. To see the picks: http://www.sibaweb.com/
September Book in a Week Results
For September Book in a Week we had only five participants, who together wrote 110 new pages! That was with writers' conferences, sick babies and such going on, too. Karen M. said she got to where she wanted to be in her book by the time the week was done.
Virginia K. likes to use timed writing to get the most output, so try that. Set a timer for whatever, put your butt in the chair knowing that you'll be free! Free! after
it goes off, and see how that works for you.
The person who wrote the most this week was Laura Webb, who produced 48 pages! Hooray for her and for the rest of our hard-working group!
The next BiaW should start Oct. 3.
August Book in a Week Results
The hot week in August brought in 10 participants, more or less, who together produced 177 pages in addition to doing all those revisions, plotting, and query packages that you're supposed to set aside during BiaW. That's energy!
Edging out the others in personal page count was Nancy Badger, whose work on a new book netted her 33 pages. Yay!
The next BiaW will begin September 5.
