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Got a special heart for Middle Grade books! Come be inspired and inspire others! Moderator ~ Sheri Larsen
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Latest Activity: May 13
Middle Grade Lair's Mission within YAlitchat!
Have a love of Middle Grade books? Come be inspired while inspiring others!
It's great being a Young Adult writer, isn't it? But some YA writers, like yourselves, choose to explore other arenas of the KidLit world, including Middle Grade. So here, in our fabulous MG Lair, we'll explore what makes those tween years of pre/post puberty infamous and memorable all at the same time. (Ages 8 -12; grades 3 - 6.)
Some of our agents are now taking submissions for Middle Grade. YAY! So keep that in mind. Please visit our First Pages, Pimp My Scene, Query Kick Around, & Synopsis Repair Groups just as you would for any YA manuscript you might have written. Shine those manuscripts up!!
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HELPFUL MG LINKS AND SITES!!
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The Strange World of Neve Rimbel
Started by Rosandra M. Davis. Last reply by Rosandra M. Davis Sep 21, 2012. 6 Replies 3 Likes
This is the cover of my self-published middle-grade fantasy novel that can be found on Amazon.com or createspace.com The Tooth Fairy is out there. Twelve year-old Neve Rimbel has the fuzzy snapshot…Continue
Tags: tooth, fairy, curses, town, middle-grade
Magefable - an illustrated fantasy adventure
Started by Travis Strout Jul 14, 2012. 0 Replies 1 Like
Hi, I wrote and illustrated a middle-grade fantasy adventure. I'm attempting to raise funds to publish it on Kickstarter. If anyone is interested in seeing the first few pages and giving me feedback…Continue
How to write an un-put-downable MG story!
Started by Sheri Larsen. Last reply by Beverly Stowe McClure Jun 25, 2012. 2 Replies 0 Likes
Read this link and then share your thoughts!! …Continue
Tags: MG
Let's Talk Revisions
Started by Diana Johnson. Last reply by Meredith Mansfield Jun 5, 2012. 3 Replies 0 Likes
Since revising is my crutch at the moment, I thought what better way than to work through it than to start a conversation about it. So here we go:I'd especially like to hear from other pantsers--we…Continue
Tags: revising
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Staff Comment by Sheri Larsen on May 13, 2013 at 8:37pm -
Thank you for sharing this link, Mike! I'll go tweet this.
How is everyone doing? Me....I haven't been working on my MG series, because I'm on sub with my YA and need to finish draft #1 of the sequel. :) Looking forward to finishing book I in my MG story, though. All of you??? And a hug PS to all our mothers. Happy Belated Mother's Day!!
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Comment by Mike Hays on May 13, 2013 at 5:15pm -
Faith. Family. Redemption. My post on my writer's point of view and the development of my book, THE YOUNGER DAYS for the "Discover New Books and Authors" blog event at MuseItUp Publishing's blog.
http://museituppublishing.blogspot.com/2013/05/faith-family-redempt...
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Staff Comment by C. Lee McKenzie on March 16, 2013 at 9:05pm -
The Friends offer great opportunities for writers to connect to local readers, Mike. So glad you had a good experience.
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Comment by Mike Hays on March 16, 2013 at 10:25am
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Thanks, Laura, Sheri, and Suzanne. It was so much fun.
Laura, I subscribe to our local paper mainly to be entertained by the mistakes, mis-quotes, and mis-information. Very entertaining, but also a little sad.
Suzanne, the parallels between sports coaching and the writing life have been a pleasant surprise. We called the vitals the P's (Purpose, Pride, Passion, Persistence, and Performance). In the end, though, in just about any endeavor, hard work is the magic.
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Comment by Suzanne Linn Kamata on March 15, 2013 at 9:11am -
Congratulations, Mike! I thought the analogy between coaching and writing was very interesting!
Today the very first blog review of my book Gadget Girl was posted here:
http://writingya.blogspot.jp/2013/03/thursday-preview-gadget-girl-b...
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Staff Comment by Sheri Larsen on March 13, 2013 at 8:37am -
That is so awesome, Mike! Congratulations!!
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Staff Comment by Laura Chesterson on March 13, 2013 at 2:00am -
Congrats, Mike! I read the article, and all the info was really interesting, plus they included a lot of quotes from you, so readers feel they got to know you as well as the book. Awesome! (Someone needs to teach the editor about punctuation though.)
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Comment by Mike Hays on March 12, 2013 at 10:25pm
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I had my first author speaking gig last Saturday. I had the honor to be the guest speaker at our local Friends of the Library annual meeting. Love my small town library!
Here is a link to the newspaper article (it's about 90% accurate, which is about a 40% accuracy increase over normal for our paper):
http://www.ccenterdispatch.com/news/local/article_c31f968a-8a8d-11e...
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Staff Comment by C. Lee McKenzie on March 10, 2013 at 9:14pm -
Here's to your birthday celebration, Anne! Hope it was great.
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Comment by Kelly Hashway on March 10, 2013 at 7:17am -
Happy birthday, Anne!
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