Comments on: >Served by a window with an ocean view http://www.hbook.com/2009/08/blogs/read-roger/served-by-a-window-with-an-ocean-view/ Publications about books for children and young adults Tue, 14 May 2013 17:58:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: S. Krishna http://www.hbook.com/2009/08/blogs/read-roger/served-by-a-window-with-an-ocean-view/#comment-8586 S. Krishna Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:04:47 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3345#comment-8586 >I am working on BBAW (Book Blogger Appreciation Week)and your blog, Read Roger, has been nominated for an award! More information will be forthcoming, but please e-mail me your e-mail address as soon as possible, within the next 24 hours at the latest. My e-mail address is skrishna [at] skrishnasbooks [dot] com. Thanks! >I am working on BBAW (Book Blogger Appreciation Week)and your blog, Read Roger, has been nominated for an award! More information will be forthcoming, but please e-mail me your e-mail address as soon as possible, within the next 24 hours at the latest. My e-mail address is skrishna [at] skrishnasbooks [dot] com. Thanks!

]]> By: Lyle Blake http://www.hbook.com/2009/08/blogs/read-roger/served-by-a-window-with-an-ocean-view/#comment-8583 Lyle Blake Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:44:06 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3345#comment-8583 >As to being too late to catch a trend: While holding down a full-time librarian job and a part-time acting job, I have been sporadically working, in what might laughably be called my spare time, on a YA novel about a teenage vampire, which I started in 2004. That would be one year before Ms. Meyer published the first TWILIGHT book. My book is maybe halfway finished. Ha.<br /><br />Lyle Blake Smythers >As to being too late to catch a trend: While holding down a full-time librarian job and a part-time acting job, I have been sporadically working, in what might laughably be called my spare time, on a YA novel about a teenage vampire, which I started in 2004. That would be one year before Ms. Meyer published the first TWILIGHT book. My book is maybe halfway finished. Ha.

Lyle Blake Smythers

]]> By: Andy Laties http://www.hbook.com/2009/08/blogs/read-roger/served-by-a-window-with-an-ocean-view/#comment-8581 Andy Laties Sun, 16 Aug 2009 16:16:50 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3345#comment-8581 >Incidentally, if someone does happen to ask you about gaps in the market, my stock response for 25 years has been: "Dinosaurs in The Congo." Title could be "Congo Dino"....remember that Bigfoot/Loch-Ness/Yeti-like tale of live dinosaurs being sighted recently roaming in the Congo? <br /><br />I want 5% of the royalty though. >Incidentally, if someone does happen to ask you about gaps in the market, my stock response for 25 years has been: "Dinosaurs in The Congo." Title could be "Congo Dino"….remember that Bigfoot/Loch-Ness/Yeti-like tale of live dinosaurs being sighted recently roaming in the Congo?

I want 5% of the royalty though.

]]> By: sdl http://www.hbook.com/2009/08/blogs/read-roger/served-by-a-window-with-an-ocean-view/#comment-8580 sdl Sun, 16 Aug 2009 13:33:11 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3345#comment-8580 >That is a pretty sweet career you have these days, my friend! Remember the fun days of summer reading in the public library? >That is a pretty sweet career you have these days, my friend! Remember the fun days of summer reading in the public library?

]]> By: Mitali Perkins http://www.hbook.com/2009/08/blogs/read-roger/served-by-a-window-with-an-ocean-view/#comment-8579 Mitali Perkins Sun, 16 Aug 2009 04:25:21 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3345#comment-8579 >I hope the non-virtual me does not disappoint. See you tomorrow! >I hope the non-virtual me does not disappoint. See you tomorrow!

]]> By: Andy Laties http://www.hbook.com/2009/08/blogs/read-roger/served-by-a-window-with-an-ocean-view/#comment-8578 Andy Laties Sat, 15 Aug 2009 15:36:21 +0000 http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3345#comment-8578 >People are always asking me what trends I am seeing. They also ask me the complete opposite question: "What are the gaps in the market?" I think the second is a better question than the first. >People are always asking me what trends I am seeing. They also ask me the complete opposite question: "What are the gaps in the market?" I think the second is a better question than the first.

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