Notes from the Slush Pile - Candy Gourlay's Blog on Trying to Get Published in Children's Books

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

The Kindle: What's it All About Amazon?

So is this future? I have to admit it's tempting. Wonder how long before the UK takes this up.

AND if you fancy self-publishing your novel, it's just a matter of click and upload.

Hmmm.

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Notes from the Slush Pile is reportage from the front line - news, talks, workshops and conferences on children's writing, getting published and how authors market themselves online.
By Candy Gourlay

I've Got A Shop! I've Got A Shop!

This shop helps me at least pretend that the blog has some commercial value thus improving marital relations and preserving the myth that sitting in front of a computer for hours at a time can legitimately be termed as 'work'.

The designs are my original work apart from the stuff I ripped off other people.

www.candygourlay.spreadshirt.net

Me Talk Good — Catch me if you can!

Nov 23 British SCBWI's Writer's and Illustrator's Day, Winchester, UK

April 20 Brighton Children's Book Festival, Brighton, UK

March 29-30 SCBWI Before-Bologna Conference, Bologna, italy

March 8 Scattered Authors Society, Coventry, UK

Freebie Alert! Download these web survival tools that I helpfully compiled for my 2007 talk Who’s Afraid of the World Wide Web – on how authors can survive the New Realities of the Internet.

NEWS NEWS NEWS NEEEEWS!

The excellent Anita Loughrey interviewed me in anticipation of my talk in Bologna and here it is on the Cynsations blog.
Undiscovered Voices, the ground-breaking anthology published by British SCBWI in association with Working Partners is out! My novel Ugly City won a place in the anthology at last year's competition. Buy the anthology.

My cartoon is featured on the cover of Simon Morse's The Pregnant Guy: Journey to the Center of the Birth. Simon's book answers previously neglected issues that affect expectant fathers such as "Am I getting fat?". All pregnant fathers must buy this book - it will be a nice thing to read while sleeping on the couch once the baby is born.

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I have very helpfully compiled this list of really useful books on writing and getting published. These occupy my bedside table and are well-thumbed and heavily underlined and markered. I refuse to lend them out - you'll just have to buy your own in my shop.

I have so many famous friends. They've got agents. Their books are out or nearly out. They've got Hollywood eyeing them up. Please, show them some pity and buy their books!