Category: movies to books

The books of 2007

5 Comments

You guys had some great thoughts yesterday on the Facebook vs. MySpace debate. I do think that for now, anyway, MySpace is THE place to be to market to teens. But now that Facebook is open to everyone, we’ll see how that changes things later, perhaps.

So, is anyone writing through the holidays? Going to be scribbling in a notebook while sipping Aunt Lena’s eggnog? 🙂 I’ll be working because… I’m just over 10k words away from finishing my second book in the Canterwood Crest series! Yahoo! It’s all downhill from here, baby. I want to have it all bright and shiny when I present it to Agent A next month. The lack of good TV has kept me writing much later into the evening than usual.

Also, I rearranged the blog a little and put 2007’s read books at the very bottom of the page. The new titles for 2008 will fill their old position in the sidebar. I really wanted to create one link that would take you to all of those titles, but I haven’t figured out how to do so yet.

So, I’ll ask. What’s your favorite book that you read in 2007? It doesn’t have to have been pubbed in 2007, if you wish.

Note: from now on I’m going to keep cross-posting here and on LJ. There’s such a great LJ crowd (waves!) that I was leaving them out by only posting here.

Movies to Books

5 Comments

For some reason, I couldn’t get the daemon to work in a regular post, so I put him up there for a couple of days. Anyone else take the test? What’s your daemon? It was so much fun to see what mine was. 🙂

Lately, I’ve been scanning the papers to see what books to movies are in the works. Atonement (open now) seems to have Oscar buzz already for its actors, so I’m going to read the novel. The Reader by Bernard Schlink is due out in 2008 (with Nicole Kidman) and I’ve heard of it before, but never read it.

So, over the holidays, I’m trying to read two books at once. While I read YA or MG, I’m trying to get through the adult novels that have been sitting in my TBR pile forever.

Remember, check back tomorrow for an announcement! 🙂 And coming later this week, someone asked me if I ever blogged about where I was and what I was doing when I got “the call” that my manuscript had an offer. I’ll share that, too.