Bowen Press, Molly O’Neill, Assistant Editor

February 11, 2009 Update: BOWEN PRESS has been closed and Brenda Bowen has left Harpercollins. I have no information on where Molly O’Neill is at this time.
Continuing my reports from the 2008 Winter SCBWI conference in New York City:

Fire in the Hole
Jennifer Hunt, Executive Editor, Little Brown Books
Molly O’Neill, Assistant Editor, Bowen Press
Reports on other [...]

Reports from 2008 SCBWI Conference

Continuing my reports from the 2008 Winter SCBWI conference in New York City:

Fire in the Hole
Jennifer Hunt, Executive Editor, Little Brown Books
Molly O’Neill, Assistant Editor, Bowen Press
Reports on other blogs about the 2008 conference.
Other Reports from the 2008 SCBWI Conference

Sarah Holmes gives her usual full-of-life commentary.
Gina Carey expresses the dual emotions or artists about conferences [...]

Little Brown Editor, Jennifer Hunt

Continuing my reports from the 2008 Winter SCBWI conference in New York City:

Fire in the Hole
Jennifer Hunt, Executive Editor, Little Brown Books
Molly O’Neill, Assistant Editor, Bowen Press
Reports on other blogs about the 2008 conference.
Jennifer Hunt, Executive Editor, Little Brown Books
Little Brown in a mid-sized, boutique publisher, which means editors acquire based on their tastes and [...]

Fire in the Hole

Continuing my reports from the 2008 Winter SCBWI conference in New York City:

Fire in the Hole
Jennifer Hunt, Executive Editor, Little Brown Books
Molly O’Neill, Assistant Editor, Bowen Press
Reports on other blogs about the 2008 conference.
There we were in the New York Hilton, New York City, NY, excited about the beginning of the Winter SCBWI conference. [...]

Tornado and Author Visit

What a week! February 5-12, 2008 was one of tornadoes, fires and more. I’ll recap the week in the next several posts.
This is NOT a Drill
On the night of February 5, I was at the Baxter County Library, Mountain Home, AR, a small town in the north-central part of Arkansas. I was [...]

Career in Writing

What does a career in writing look like?
Take these examples:

Author A: Has served in a leadership role for a writing organization for many years and is an inspiration to many people. She has published three picture books with major publishers. But in the end, she hates the sales and marketing part of [...]

Real Writers Have Framed Certificates

Wow! Thanks Sarah Miller for naming Revision Notes one of the Make My Day blogs! I’m thrilled.
Hand On Chin, with Piercing Eyes: The Dreaded Author Photo is discussed with humor.
The Cybils awards have a widget that lets you put the finalists on your blog automatically. The Cybils will be awarded next [...]

Staying Connected Housekeeping

There are a couple housekeeping issues on the blog that you might not notice, especially if you only receive this through a blog reader (Bloglines, Google Reader, etc) or on your LiveJournal Friends page.
Email Subscriptions to Revision Notes
First, I’ve added the capability to have this delivered to your mail box daily. You can do [...]

Spare to Baroque Writing

Do you prefer spare or baroque type novels?
My friend prefers Elmore Leonard’s spare and terse prose, and it doesn’t bother him that Leonard has a less-than-tight plot that meanders. He likes the way Leonard’s writing is invisible to him, giving him the experience of living with the characters.
On the other hand, a novelist like [...]