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THE PLOT WHISPERER Blog Tour: Lacey Picks the Winners. Kind of.

Posted by beckylevine on 21 Oct 2011 in Blog Contest, Uncategorized |15 Comments

This post is dedicated to Trixie, Debbi Michiko Florence’s dog. I’ve met Trixie, and she’s a sweetie. She’s also amazing–I’m always impressed at how clever she is when she helps Debbi pick a winner in one of their giveaways. You can see Debbi and Trixie together, at Jama Kim Rattigan’s celebration of National Dog Day. […]

Wednesday Winner: My Choice for the Best Revision Metaphor

Posted by beckylevine on 18 May 2011 in Blog Contest |4 Comments

Well, my contest got some pretty great entries and even some back-and-forth between entrants, which is always cool. I think everybody came close, getting to that feeling of having to take things apart and–somehow–put them back together. Which is really what revision is all about! Thank you to everybody who entered. BUT..There can be only […]

Contest: What’s Your Revision Metaphor?

Posted by beckylevine on 11 May 2011 in Blog Contest |31 Comments

WARNING: MIXED METAPHORS (or possibly even analogies) AHEAD: You know that stage in revision, when things are FINALLY coming together? When you start to see the light at the end of the tunnel (and it’s NOT a train)? I have struggled for years to come up with a good way to describe. Something concise, cohesive, […]

The Gift of Writing for Kids—Bruce Coville Book Giveaway

Posted by beckylevine on 4 Apr 2011 in Blog Contest, Reading |19 Comments

So, this past weekend, I headed up to Sacramento for the SCBWI Spring Spirit conference. Which ROCKED. I may do another post this week telling more about it, along with perhaps a few car photos from my research trip, but what I wanted to talk about this morning was Bruce Coville‘s talk. Or part of […]

ANATHEMA Contest Winner

Posted by beckylevine on 2 Mar 2011 in Uncategorized |No Comments

Happy Wednesday! Today, one happy reader finds out that she has won a copy of Megg Jensen‘s Anathema! Drum roll, please. And the winner is… Ana Lucia Arroyave!! Ana Lucia, I don’t have an email for you. Please send me an email at beckylevine at ymail dot com, and I’ll set things up for you […]

SHIVER by Maggie Stiefvater: Plots & Subplots, Twisting & Weaving

Posted by beckylevine on 24 Mar 2010 in Blog Contest |38 Comments

Hey, everybody, watch out! There is a contest at the end of this post! And it is a contest for a scary book. And I, Grover, am here to warn you and to tell you not to keep reading. Do not scroll down to the end of this post! (Okay, I couldn’t resist, with much […]