Notes from the Slushpile

Notes from the Slushpile is a team blog maintained by eight friends who also happen to be children's authors at different stages of the publishing journey.

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Showing posts with label who's afraid of the worldwide web. Show all posts

Showing posts with label who's afraid of the worldwide web. Show all posts

Saturday, 29 August 2009

What happens when authors become cool online personalities

Not that YA author John Green ( Paper Towns , Looking for Alaska ) is a cool online personality only because he's trying to sell his boo...

Friday, 24 July 2009

Wanna sell your book? Just go on Oprah!

If you feel for this guy, spare a thought for all the other authors out there. If you can't see the video click here (It's long by Y...

Sunday, 12 July 2009

Twitter vs Facebook - what's a children's writer to do?

Social Networking is dangerous territory for writers. Perhaps more so for novelists. All the writers I know seem to suffer addictive tendenc...

Monday, 25 May 2009

Nicola Morgan's hilarious DIY video

Yes you can! Make your own promotional video that is - and you don't need a camera or video skills or sound equipment. All you need is a...

Sunday, 24 May 2009

Further Education: be published, be seen and be sold.

I admit it. I'm becoming increasingly dependent on YouTube videos to keep my blog updated regularly. But seriously, you guys, I am inter...

Tuesday, 19 May 2009

Maureen Johnson manages to be funny in a serious book video

MJ is one of the funniest YA bloggers around and here's her new video! It looks like the Scholastic had this serious video made and Mau...

Monday, 11 May 2009

Performing authors and Fiona's video

My friend Fiona Dunbar's new book Tiger-Lily Gold has just come out and to celebrate she made this video (I helped!) Meanwhile, Nicola...

Saturday, 7 March 2009

Happy Random Things

So today, I had the choice of blogging about something really serious, heavy and mind blowing about the publishing industry or just chilling...

Wednesday, 25 February 2009

Oh how can we measure up to John Green?

So, if you are an author/soon-to-be author worried about the fact that authors now have to be not only writers but speakers, entertainers, w...

Saturday, 24 January 2009

Do websites and book trailers sell books?

Yesterday on Facebook, I launched my new wheeze - web mentoring workshops . I've been trying out all the different website-creating tool...

Monday, 19 January 2009

YouTube Bit Me! (But I Deserved It)

I've gotten away with it so far but now, technology is catching up with me. I got the following email from YouTube today: Dear Candy Gou...

Friday, 7 November 2008

Book Trailers on My Mind

I've been giving book trailers some thought recently. I've just realised that I have two rather talented brothers in the film-making...

Saturday, 11 October 2008

New Technology's Eternal Problems

Thanks to Jane Friedman of the There Are No Rules blog for this. And so it goes. If you can't see video, click here

Tuesday, 30 September 2008

Meg Cabot's World Tour

Meg Cabot has left the UK ( Chicklish is running a Meg Cabot week featuring interviews they blagged while Meg was here ). I still think it...

Sunday, 28 September 2008

Shoo Rayner's Drawing School

Okay, I'm trying to be a good author and ignore all distractions. However Shoo Rayner is evil and has started a drawing school over on...

Wednesday, 10 September 2008

My Friends Are Dragging Me Kicking and Screaming Into Facebook

So you see, though I've got a page on MySpace and a page on Facebook and a page on Bebo and a page on YouTube , and a page on Ning (bet ...

Tuesday, 2 September 2008

What's In a Website?

a quick note: friends, please visit my Volcano Child blog (yes, yes, I know, obsessive compulsive me etc etc) - help me make a good impress...

Tuesday, 5 August 2008

Here's a New Idea: Sell Shares in Your Novel

I had never heard of the author Tao Lin before but he has managed to paste himself onto my radar screen and I might just buy one of his boo...

Saturday, 2 August 2008

When Reality Suffers in Translation, Try Fantasy

Sweating profusely in the tube the other day, I reached for a copy of the Metro freesheet to use as a fan. An interview with poet Bernardine...

Wednesday, 30 July 2008

How to Write

My neighbour, Hugo (age 9), often sits at the other end of my office, writing. He is capable of producing one of his graphic novels in the t...

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