it's not called brainstorming
Had a great in the moment conversation with BFF about co-writing a YA idea that needs serious work, but has what we think is awesome potential. I *love* those moments when you're not even trying to...
View ArticlePlaying with an outline . . .
in my head for the new YA. Did a little research and the topic so far hasn't appeared in YA lit. But it could pop up in Publisher's Lunch tomorrow, so I'm hoping to get an outline down when I've turned...
View ArticleJessica Ashley is Jessica Burkhart :)
Made the official announcement on my other blog that Jessica Burkhart is my pen name. I thought it was definitely time to start connecting my real name to my pseudonym. I'm starting to get farther...
View ArticleAnd it's agent query time!
(Cross posting from my other blog because Jessica Ashley's really the one querying...)Wrote my first agent query letter last night since, well, 2006 and it's going to need some tweaking before it's...
View ArticleQuery #1 is out!
Busy with Canterwood deadline all weekend, BUT did do something exciting on the YA front on Monday. I sent out my first query! Just one to test the waters and now all I can do is wait. But I barely...
View ArticleBlackBerry Bold hates Hotmail
After well over 5 hours of trying to get my BlackBerry Bold 9700 to synch with Hotmail--I think I'm down to 2 options. Either pay to upgrade Hotmail ($20 a year), which I'd do, OR get a new Gmail...
View ArticleLate start to NaNo--kind of . . .
Well, I'll be getting a late start, anyway. I took off the first week of Nov so I'll probably start writing NaNo-style on Monday. I'm not officially doing NaNo, but that's kind of how I write with my...
View ArticleHappy Christmas!
Hope you're all spending the day with loved ones! See you in the New Year! :)
View ArticleClik here to view.
Kate and J.R. Angelella's blog is live!
Cross posting from my tween blog:This is the blog of 2011, guys! (Tweens, this is YA content, FYI . . .) Kate and Ross started their blog for their two books (Crossed and Cursed) from Sourcebooks' FIRE...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A week in BlackBerry pix
Today, Bailey in the window watching the snow.Bailey in her pink blanket.Manis with K7th Avenue during Brooklyn Blizzard #1DittoI climbed several of those piles . . .Pretty, though.Stuck car.All of...
View ArticleHung up on Dear Teen Me essay
After eavesdropping (true fact!) on a Twitter exchange between my lovely friend Saundra Mitchell and a new Twitter acquaintance, Sara Megibow, I learned about DearTeenMe.com. I was so excited that I...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Dear Teen Me is turned in
I just sent it off to Miranda a few minutes ago. I wrote it a couple of nights ago, listening to my iPod around 2am. The thing I'd been TERRIFIED of came flooding out on the page. The essay is supposed...
View ArticleDoubts
Fueled with Bigelow's French Vanilla Black tea, cereal and am ready to kick off the weekend writing! I'm excited to attempt to get a huge chunk of INITIATION done.I'm also a little sidetracked. I had a...
View ArticleEssay live on Dear Teen Me and the rest of the essay
My essay is live at Dear Teen Me! So excited and, well, kind of nervous to have it out there. The essay posted at DTM is only a portion of the full essay, so here it is in its entirety. Big thank yous...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Brooklyn girl, baby!
I opened the door expecting to have a package from UPS with stuff from work or something I'd ordered online. Instead, a nice guy asked for Jess Ashley and handed me a vase of flowers.Kate and Ross got...
View ArticleMight be MIA
Just a heads up, I'm going through some serious personal issues and might be offline for a while. I will do my best to blog/Tweet/celebrate Chosen's release as I can, but I wanted to let Team...
View ArticleWell, hello again!
Yes, it's been forever since I've blogged here. It's been an insane time--the craziest of my life. Some things that have happened since I last blogged:* I spent three weeks at the Mayo Clinic in...
View ArticleNow vs. then
I hope the saying's true about things getting really bad before they get better...because things are REALLY bad right now. It's kind of one of those times where it feels as if things will never...
View ArticleChoices
Super busy getting back into work. POPULAR is due soon and we just got back from the third trip to Mayo. Making a fourth trip in December and I'm continually hoping for good results.Lots of things went...
View Article
