by Rebecca | Jun 12, 2014 | agents, AWESOMENESS, books, Egmont, feel the love, gratitude, happy happy joy joy, historical fiction, i heart the beach, middle grade, New Leaf, news, PW, Summer of Lost and Found, watch out I'm getting all verklempt, WIP, writing
So you might have seen this in Publishers Weekly this afternoon (click to make big!): That’s right! I* sold my second book! The Summer of Lost and Found will be in bookstores in 2016. It’s full of everything I loved to read about as a middle-grader:...
by Rebecca | Oct 9, 2013 | ARCs, audrey and alice, contests and giveaways, covers, What I'm Reading Right Now, what's up wednesday, writing
What’s Up Wednesday is a weekly meme that helps readers and writers touch base with blog friends. If you’d like to join in, you can find the link widget on Jaime’s and Erin’s blog posts. I love this idea because it gives a structured, easy way...
by Rebecca | Oct 9, 2012 | Adventures in Bloggysitting, audrey and alice, AWESOMENESS, gratitude, happy happy joy joy, I'm bringing Balki back, middle grade, watch out I'm getting all verklempt, writing
From Publisher’s Marketplace today: Click to read, or see below: Rebecca Behrens’s debut WHEN AUDREY MET ALICE, featuring the thirteen-year-old First Daughter who finds Alice Roosevelt’s secret diary hidden beneath the floorboards of the White...
by Rebecca | Oct 5, 2012 | Adventures in Bloggysitting, audrey and alice, characters, middle grade, nerdiness, nostalgia, WIP, writing
Thanks to Katy Upperman for tagging me. I loved reading about her fabulous WIP, Cross My Heart. Here are some answers about my upper-MG WIP:What is the working title of your book?When Audrey Met AliceWhere did the idea come from? It’s kind of a long story. I...
by Rebecca | Sep 20, 2010 | nerdiness, revising, talking about writing, writing
Before I started inputting my hard-copy edits Saturday, I decided to make a Wordle of my MS. (Yes, I was procrastinating.) Copying my entire 70K MS to the clipboard and pasting it into the Wordle maker almost killed my computer, which was probably EXTREMELY STUPID to...
by Rebecca | Aug 30, 2010 | revising, WIP, writing
I love getting comments from beta readers. In particular, I love getting comments from my mom as a beta.My mom isn’t just a sweetheart reader, although she is very encouraging and supportive and tactful. She’s also a really good critic. I must have...
