by Denise Vega | April 19, 2008 | Writing Inspiration
So it’s 75 degrees here in Denver today. Beautiful sunny day but I can’t let it fool me. It was 80 on Tuesday and snowed on Wednesday—that’s Colorado weather for you. I’ve been spending a ton of time on my new website, and I’ve also been working this week on...
by Denise Vega | October 19, 2006 | Writing Inspiration
CLICK HERE actually WON the Colorado Book Award for Young Adult Literature! I was stunned and amazed. It’s like the Oscars where you don’t know if you’ve won until that night and when they called out the book title and my name, Isat in my chair...
by Denise Vega | July 7, 2006 | Writing Inspiration
Well, that book I wrote about on June 14, Fact of Life #31, is now in the hands of my agent, which means it will soon be in the hands of publishers…so the waiting begins. But not really because I believe in always having a project to work on that I’m...
by Denise Vega | July 5, 2006 | Writing Inspiration
I attended the RMC-SCBWI summer retreat with author Randy Powell. I wanted to get back to the Click Here “unsequel” because I’d finished the revisions for Fact of Life #31 (FOL) and was ready to get back to it. Randy suggested a “road...
by Denise Vega | June 14, 2006 | Writing Inspiration
Those of you who are novelists reading this will probably be able to relate to the joys and sorrows of revision. In revising and rewriting my young adult novel, Fact of Life #31, I realized I had to lose a favorite scene. It was a long scene, over several pages, and I...
