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0 2016 29 comments uncategorized this book is broken and other things i tell myself while writing i am currently writing attempting to write failing to write my 13th book authors often talk about murky middles or needing to stick the landing but i m going to be honest for me writing a first draft is one long doubt ridden roller coaster punctuated by brief moments of hope and long swells of you suck you suck you suck this isn t a matter of self doubt and self loathing this is a matter of being willing to write badly to let yourself fail over and over again to resist the urge to hold down delete and get to the end for me writing a first draft is an exercise in controlled failure or at least controlled falling the dilemma is that the more books you write the more aware you become of when things are not working but no matter how many books you write you don t become magically capable of fixing something until you have something to fix the amount of time i spend resisting this the time i spend trying to nail a landing without ever hitting the springs is astonishing it s also compounded by the fact that while trying to write something good instead of letting myself write something bad i m also usually doing the final read on a book i ve already written and revised and seen through every painful step so not only am i faced with an inferiority complex born of other writers work i m faced with my own evident decline since there s no way i ll ever write something that good again ignoring of course the fact it wasn t good when i first started the fact that at some point i had to simply let go enter that controlled fall that is a beginning this isn t a post with any advice it s simply a post to say that no matter how many books you write some voices don t go away some voices even get louder and the only way to shoulder past is to remind yourself over and over and over again that the only thing you can t improve on is a blank page yours from the trenches v jul 15 2016 75 comments news publishing on the slow pursuit of overnight success a few weeks ago i wrote a post over on tumblr about success i d just walked into a bookshop in edinburgh hoping as many author do to spot my own work tucked away somewhere on the shelf when i found not one but two major displays a table stand and a wall runner i stood very still trying to make a memory and then realizing i couldn t be counted on i snapped a photo instead the photo doesn t do the feelings justice these days i see my name paired more and more with the words overnight success and i ve heard that the average overnight success takes 10 years it s taken me 9 so if that means i m ahead of the curve so be it i started writing when i was a kid poetry mostly didn t try my hand at anything longer than a short story until i was in college i wrote my first novel as a sophomore an acid trip through the underworld that will never be published but it got close enough for me to get my first true tastes of failure a literary agent a year on sub to publishers five separate acquisitions meetings five times getting all the way to the door and then being told it wasn t good enough to go through i was a college senior when i decided to try again it would have been easy to walk away failure isn t fun and i was pretty good at other things that wouldn t take so much flesh but i couldn t bear the thought i was a fluke pride and all that plus i had this idea swimming through my head two sing song lines about a village and a witch and a secret in the wind it was called the near witch and the summer after i graduated it sold to disney it didn t get much press aside from the fact it was a debut the industry loves to tout debuts as though lack of experience is the natural precursor to massive success the book was in a select number of stores for a very short time 1 2 copies max and disappeared by the end of its first season out of print at 18 months i wrote a sequel the dark remains but the publisher decided after it was written that they d rather have something else so back into the drawer it went instead i wrote the archived about a library of the dead that one got a bit more traction and a loyal cultish following but by the time its sequel the unbound hit shelves i d been informed that the publisher wouldn t be finishining the trilogy it had earned out but still under performed by some invisible unknowable measurement the hardcover of the archived was just taken out of print at 25 i was scarred terrified that my career was over because i d given something everything i had and it wasn t enough and i didn t understand how or why or what i was supposed to do next and part of me wished i d walked away back when that first book didn t sell but i didn t i couldn t and my anger my frustration my stubborn resolve was louder than my fear so i sat down and wrote something else it was a book for me a book to restore my joy to remind me why i did this masochistic thing and it was a secret a sheltering of the creative process so that that no publisher could take away what the writing of it gave me that book was called vicious it was a strange supervillain origin story and it took me to a new publisher tor that took a chance on me and that over the next four years would restore my faith in myself and my industry the book itself was a risk a niche but i had an editor who championed me and a team who believed in my work and nearly 3 years after release that book is still selling strong also in the midst of the dear and chaos and loss of that first series i signed a work for hire contract for an early middle grade at scholastic the book were designed for scholastic clubs and fairs titles and sold more than 600 000 copies and still got turned down by barnes and noble i never got to see those on shelf my eighth book a darker shade of magic was probably the one that launched my ship the one that first garnered me that title of overnight success though it would be refurbished with each subsequent release adsom was the first title to get great store placement amazing reviews and it s still selling strong the hardcover is now in its 9th printing the paperback in its 6th and every signing i do is filled with fans of kell and lila holland and rhy and it s an amazing to have a readership that cares as much about these books as i do i recently sold tv rights and was signed on to write the pilot episode my ninth book was part of a multi author platform at scholastic i hope i didn t tank that series it feels like i might have or maybe it was just winding down as series do but i m really damn proud of that book my tenth book a gathering of shadows the sequel to a darker shade of magic was my first book to ever hit the new york times list it was the first time i got to go on a national book tour and see hundreds and hundreds of readers some who were new and some who d been with me since the beginning this savage song was my 11th book it was my first ya since the unbound a strange dark existential novel about what it means to be monstrous what it means to be human and this past week it debuted at 1 on the new york times list this is not a post meant to brag success is a thing so largely out of our control overnight success is almost always a myth half of this industry is luck and half is the refusal to quit jul 10 2016 1 comment uncategorized my san diego comic con and non con schedule hello lovelies as i head home today from the wonderful savage song tour i am getting ready to turn right around and head to san diego for sdcc below is everything you need to know about where to find me also if you re not attending sdcc please note that there s a special coffee shop date set up just for you thursday july 21st 1 30 2 30pm nerd trivia panel horton grand theatre nerd trivia challenge is a one hour game show featuring three teams of today s biggest authors competing for the chance to be the champions of nerdy knowledge authors patrick rothfuss the kingkiller chronicle pierce brown red rising romina russell zodiac chuck wendig invasive sam sykes the city stained red cecil castelucci star wars moving target v e schwab a gathering of shadows camilla d errico pop manga pop painting pop manga coloring book and duane swierczynski revolver test their knowledge of everything from marvel universe characters to harry potter moderated by brandon t snider what would captain kirk do 3 45 4 45pm i think nerd trivia signing i know that it s after the panel but i don t know the exact time or autograph area so check back but they will definitely say at the panel saturday july 23rd 9 11am non con event the amazing kevin hearne has organized an informal signing chatting date at upstart crow books and coffee come by at 9am and you can hang out and get books signed by kevin chuck wendig richard kadrey and me 2pm in booth signing i ll be at the tor booth 2707 signing free copies of vicious they will also have copies of adsom and agos for sale and of course you can bring your own sunday july 24th 11am 12pm what s hot in ya signing autograph area 09 please note that the signing for our panel is before the panel not after 3 45 4 45 what s hot in ya panel room 5ab strong protagonists engrossing romance humor action and angst join us for this popular annual chat about the hottest new titles and trends in ya fiction moderated by nathan bransford the jacob wonderbar series and featuring renee ahdieh the wrath and the dawn series victoria aveyard the red queen series michelle hodkin the mara dyer trilogy lauren oliver vanishing girls brendan reichs virals series victoria schwab a darker shade of magic laini taylor strange the dreamer and adam silvera more happy than not jun 09 2016 28 comments uncategorized my mental illness is a storm i m always searching for the right words for my stories for my life after all words are the form we give ideas a way to make the intangible tangible conceivable real words confess they admit they ground i ve always been an anxious person neurotic hyper vigilant i have high walls struggle with change emotion vulnerability at some point it tipped when i get overwhelmed my body shuts down i start shaking in that teeth chattering heart stuttering flushed and sick to my stomach way i try to mask it to pretend i m okay and sometimes that works and sometimes it gets worse and worse until i m sitting on a bathroom floor wishing i could find the plug and pull it it s always been a war mind versus body mind over body body over mind for someone who s pretty good with words i ve struggled to find the right ones for this for myself but also for my family and friends who wanted so badly to help to understand the storm in my head a storm it s taken me a long time to settle on that word but the more i think about it the more it fits sometimes my mind is so cloudless and blue that it s hard to imagine there ever was a storm let alone that i ll see one again sometimes there are dark clouds in the distance i can see them but i m able to skirt the weather other times i can t and i m forced to watch the weather roll in sometimes every day for weeks the forecast is dark and i have to keep my umbrella handy shuddering at every distant piece of thunder sometimes whole seasons are made of lightning hail turbulent winds sometimes the storm is so bad that all i can do is hunker down somewhere safe and remind myself over and over that storms pass it s what they do one of the most insidious things about mental illness is that it lies it tries to convince you that this how it is at its worst is how it will always be that the storm in your head is the new constant that because all you can see is bad weather that s all there is now all there will ever be you will never see the sun again but that s not how storms work which is why this metaphor is so important because no matter the weather the most important thing for me to remember for anyone to remember is this storms pass sometimes fast and sometimes slow sometimes without any damage and others with wreckage in their wake but they pass i guess i m putting this here as a reminder to myself and anyone else who needs it that storms are meant to be weathered may 20 2016 5 comments uncategorized this savage song makes the indie next list and an important reminder about preorders a couple of weeks ago i got the wonderful news that this savage song which comes out in just 6 weeks made the summer indie next list a pretty hard to land on list of new and upcoming titles that will be featured in independent bookstores across the country and as someone for whom indies have been absolutely vital i couldn t be happier here s the review that landed me on that list this savage song by victoria schwab greenwillow books 9780062380852 17 99 available july august and kate live in a broken world where violence breeds actual monsters kate wants to embrace her monstrous side while august would do anything to be human this savage song takes the darkness of the world around us and gives it form schwab has gifted readers with a fascinating if gory urban fantasy world a pair of unforgettable protagonists and a question that will linger long in the minds of readers what does it mean to be inhuman in a world where humans do such monstrous things nicole brinkley oblong books music millerton ny and while we re talking about indies now s a great time to remind you that if you pre order this savage song through either parnassus books or books of wonder two of my favorite indies you will receive a signed personalized hardcover a set of limited edition human monster tattoos my undying affection pre ordering a book is like a gift from present you to future you it s also one of the best ways to show a publisher there s excitement for a book series it s not a necessary thing by any means but it really does help may 13 2016 13 comments uncategorized on little gods i ve been thinking a lot about control as a writer you sculpt a world from scratch populate it with people with stories and control them all from the geography to the folklore the smallest details to the largest plots it s in your hands in that sense as a writer you become a little god but in publishing that business side of the art your control dissolves you don t control whether the book sells you don t control the marketing budget if he does you don t control the publisher s investment you don t control your place in house you don t control the sales plan you don t control the cover art you don t control the jacket copy you don t control how the book is portrayed publicized given sold to the world you don t control anything or at least it can feel that way because of course you still control one thing the words the content between the front cover and the back in the cyclone of publishing it s easy to forget how important that is easy to feel like the words don t matter as much as a six figure marketing campaign a national tour a lead title push they can feel like big gods it can be terrifying i...
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