tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78027230021870282452024-03-07T19:21:53.239-08:00Chelsea BobulskiWriter. Reader. Daydreamer. Gryffindor.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05397143823061698282noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7802723002187028245.post-80814918045365535552015-10-22T15:58:00.000-07:002015-10-22T15:59:55.199-07:00BOOK NEWS!!!!<div class="MsoNormal">
Sitting here, writing this, I’m feeling so humbled. It’s
been five years and five manuscripts since I decided to pursue writing as my
career, and I am so thrilled to share that my YA debut, THE WOOD, will be
published by Feiwel and Friends in Spring 2017! <o:p></o:p></div>
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Here’s the official announcement: <a href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-book-news/article/68434-rights-report-week-of-october-19-2015.html">http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-book-news/article/68434-rights-report-week-of-october-19-2015.html</a>
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THE WOOD is definitely the book of my heart. I wrote it
during a very difficult time in my life, and thus there is darkness in its
pages, but also a lot of hope. And
because I’m the kid who always fast forwarded through movies to get to the
kissing scenes, there’s also a lot of romance, too. <o:p></o:p></div>
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One of the main reasons I became a writer (aside from the
excuse to live in other worlds all day) is because books have a way of helping
people. Whether you’ve had a long day, or you’re going through something really
tough, or you just really love books, being able to escape into another world
by way of paper and ink is its own special brand of magic. I hope all of you
amazing readers out there will find such an escape in my book, and hopefully
some lifelong friends, too. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I’m planning on writing a more in-depth “Road to Publication”
post detailing my journey over the past five years, but for now, I just want to
say thank you. Thank you to my incredible agent, Andrea Somberg, who is the greatest
cheerleader-warrior-agent a girl could ask for. Thank you to my editor, Anna
Roberto, for believing in my little book. I cannot wait to work with you and see
just how amazing it can be! Thank you to my CPs, Lori Goldstein, N.K. Traver, Naomi Hughes, and May Robertson, for all of the encouraging emails and for always bringing out
the best in my work. Thank you to my husband (my best friend, my soulmate) for
never letting me give up. And thank you to the entire book community—authors, readers,
publishers, agents, booksellers, bloggers, reviewers, teachers, librarians—for being
the amazing people you are. It is because of all of you that the magic of books
lives, and for that, I am eternally grateful. <o:p></o:p></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05397143823061698282noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7802723002187028245.post-66099453441071992632015-08-07T12:39:00.000-07:002015-08-07T13:30:40.782-07:00Top 5's!<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Hey Pitch Wars Peeps! I hope by now you’ve
had time to look over the bios and wish lists of all the amazing Pitch Wars
mentors (here’s <a href="http://chelseabobulski.blogspot.com/2015/08/pitch-wars-2015.html" target="_blank">my bio</a> if you need a refresher for the types of YA
submissions Lori Goldstein and I are looking for!) and that you’ve started
narrowing down your mentor picks! I know it can be really hard to narrow down
your choices to a Top 5, so I thought I’d give you some Top 5’s of my own and
hopefully help you figure out if we’d be a good match! Because even
though all of us mentors are super competitive and want all of your talented
manuscripts to be submitted to us and us alone (*grudgingly puts away greedy grabby hands*),
we want to do everything we can to help YOU find your perfect mentor match! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Harry Potter and
the Order of the Phoenix</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> by J.K. Rowling (my hands-down favorite HP*)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Night Circus</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> by Erin
Morgenstern<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Scorpio
Races</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">
by Maggie Stiefvater<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Girl of Fire
and Thorns</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">
by Rae Carson <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Mentions</span></u><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">:</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> <i>Anna and the French Kiss</i> by Stephanie
Perkins; <i>City of Bones</i> by Cassandra
Clare; <i>Red</i> by Alison Cherry; <i>Cinder</i> by Marissa Meyer; <i>The Diviners</i> by Libba Bray; and
basically all the other books out there because it’s impossible to narrow down
books to a Top 5. Top 100, <i>maybe</i>, but
not Top 5. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Medicine Woman</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">
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<u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Honorable
Mentions</span></u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">:
<i>I Love Lucy</i>; <i>Game of Thrones</i>; <i>The Knick</i>;
<i>Frasier</i>; <i>Scandal</i>; <i>Band of Brothers</i>;
<i>The Sopranos</i>; and two shows from my childhood
that greatly inspired my imagination, <i>So
Weird</i> and <i>Are You Afraid of the Dark?</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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are in my “Top 5,” k?)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i>Star Wars</i>; <i>The Notebook</i>; <i>Jurassic Park</i>;
<i>Father of the Bride</i>; <i>Tommy Boy</i>; <i>The Breakfast Club</i>; <i>Christmas
Vacation</i>; <i>Pearl Harbor</i>; <i>Center Stage</i>; <i>Catch Me If You can</i>; and…a million others, if I’m being honest.
Ugh, this Top 5 thing is so hard! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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kind of a musical nerd, too.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Seven Brothers</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i>Chicago</i>; <i>Sound of Music</i>; <i>On the Town</i>;
<i>Footloose</i>; <i>Hello, Dolly!</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
am an insanely nostalgic 90s kid, so if you ever want to talk about ANYTHING
90s related, I’M YOUR GIRL. ;-) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
am absolutely crazy about college football, but I don’t know the first thing
about the NFL. That’s what you get for growing up in a college town, I guess. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
still play my Super Nintendo from time to time (see #1)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Speaking
of Super Nintendo, I’m pretty sure I’ve beaten the Aladdin game at least a
dozen times, a fact I like to brag about since it’s the only game I’ve ever
beaten aside from Tomb Raider: Legend.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I’m
also a big Tomb Raider fan. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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this Top 5 thing isn’t as easy as I thought, since I pretty much cheated on all
of my categories by not really making up my mind about anything. Oops! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I'd love to get to know the mentees better, so what
about you guys? What would you put in your Top 5's for the above categories? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">*When
I list any Harry Potter book as my #1 favorite book of all time, all of the
other Harry Potter books can be included in that number one spot, because,
really, my favorite “book” is the entire
Harry Potter series. And for anyone wondering, if I <i>had</i> to rank the Harry Potter series in order from favorite to least
favorite (with the full understanding that they all still occupy the #1 spot)
it would be as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Harry Potter and
the Order of the Phoenix</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Harry Potter and
the Goblet of Fire</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Harry Potter and
the Half-Blood Prince</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Harry Potter and
the Deathly Hallows</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Harry Potter and
the Prisoner of Azkaban</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Harry Potter and
the Sorcerer’s Stone</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Harry Potter and
the Chamber of Secrets</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hotly contested issue, so please feel free to include your own Harry Potter
rankings below :-)</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05397143823061698282noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7802723002187028245.post-47446342513493187612015-08-03T03:00:00.000-07:002015-08-07T13:29:43.474-07:00Pitch Wars 2015!<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Hi everyone! I’m so excited to be a part
of Pitch Wars again, this time as a co-mentor with my insanely talented friend
and CP, Lori Goldstein! My first time around, I was a mentee of YA author Sarah
Nicolas during Pitch Wars 2012, where I received 7 agent requests, which ultimately
led to me signing with the incredible Andrea Somberg of Harvey Klinger, Inc. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Pitch Wars is such an amazing
opportunity for everyone who participates, both to get your work seen by multiple
agents and to get more involved in the writing community. I made three lifelong
friends and CPs thanks to Pitch Wars, including Lori Goldstein, whose keen
editorial eye and knack for untangling even my most complicated plot threads
have made all the difference in my writing. For more information on Lori and
her editorial style, check out her Pitch Wars 2015 <a href="http://www.lorigoldsteinbooks.com/2015/08/03/pitch-wars/" target="_blank">blog post</a>!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">As for my editorial style, I pay
particular attention to pacing, tension, and conflict—drama is what makes the
book go ’round! If an agent/editor/reader doesn’t care about your character or
their (hopefully escalating) stakes, it doesn’t matter how exciting that
opening car chase is or how meticulously you’ve outlined your plot, they’re
going to put the book down and walk away. You need to make them care about your
characters from page one, sentence one, in order to stand out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For more information, you can check out the ‘About
Me’ page on my <a href="http://chelseabobulski.com/" target="_blank">website</a>. You can also follow me on my blog and on <a href="https://twitter.com/ChelseaBobulski" target="_blank">twitter </a>for Pitch
Wars updates and writing tips. For more on the contest, including submission
details and the agent list, visit host <a href="http://www.brenda-drake.com/2015/07/pitch-wars-2015-is-coming-are-you-ready/"><span style="color: #6c0a16; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Brenda Drake’s
Web site</span></a>.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And now, without further ado, here is
our joint wish list!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">While we read and
love all genres, we feel we can have the greatest impact on YA contemporary,
contemporary fantasy/urban fantasy, and realistic or light science fiction. We
welcome strong friendships and romance. We don't mind love triangles (see
Lori's #TVD above). But above all, if your book makes us laugh, you will
win our hearts. Characters rule for us. The stronger, the better.
We love stories that blend genres and styles: a dash of humor, a pinch of
suspense, an ounce of romance. Make your characters real and make us
care about them, and you've got us. We're less drawn to straight-out
action, crime, horror, and high fantasy. Stories involving religious themes,
sports of all sorts (unless they are in the <i>Friday Night Lights</i> vein,
where the sport serves as a backdrop to strong character arcs), and very dark
or political aspects are probably not for us.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Our critique will
be full of smiley faces but won’t shy away from pointing out the areas that
need work. Lori has an ear for dialogue and Chelsea
is particularly good at trimming the fat. We won’t ask you to do anything
we won’t, and haven’t, done. Lori will use everything she's learned as a
third-time Pitch Wars mentor and as a survivor of a Big 5 publisher's editing
rounds for two books. Chelsea will use her experience as a Pitch Wars mentee in
2012 to ensure she knows what it's like to be in your shoes and she'll guide
you every step of the way.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We both know firsthand
how one or two pointed questions can make your book better. We've done this for
each other, and now we can do the same for you. If you pick us as your
mentor, you'll get two minds for the price of one. We’ll devote all we’ve
learned to make your book the best it can be.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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