Please help me welcome Author Alison Stine to my blog today!
Supervision by Alison Stine
Published by: HarperVoyager
Publication date: April 9th 2015
Genres: Paranormal, Young Adult
Published by: HarperVoyager
Publication date: April 9th 2015
Genres: Paranormal, Young Adult
Synopsis:
Something is wrong with Esmé.
Kicked out of school in New York, she’s sent to live with her grandmother in a small Appalachian town. But something is wrong with the grandmother Ez hasn’t seen for years; she leaves at midnight, carrying a big black bag. Something is wrong with her grandmother’s house, a decrepit mansion full of stray cats, stairs that lead to nowhere, beds that unmake themselves. Something is wrong in the town where a kid disappears every year, where a whistle sounds at night but no train arrives.
And something is wrong with the cute and friendly neighbor Ez’s age with black curls and ice-blue eyes: He’s dead.
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AUTHOR BIO
ALISON STINE’s first novel SUPERVISION will be released by Harper Voyager UK in 2015.
Also the author of three books of poetry: WAIT (University of Wisconsin Press, 2011), OHIO VIOLENCE (University of North Texas Press, 2009), and LOT OF MY SISTER (Kent State University Press, 2001), she has worked as an actor, an artist’s model, a high school teacher, and a professor. She holds a Ph.D. in English from Ohio University, and is an avid urban explorer.
Also the author of three books of poetry: WAIT (University of Wisconsin Press, 2011), OHIO VIOLENCE (University of North Texas Press, 2009), and LOT OF MY SISTER (Kent State University Press, 2001), she has worked as an actor, an artist’s model, a high school teacher, and a professor. She holds a Ph.D. in English from Ohio University, and is an avid urban explorer.
How much do you write?
Mornings
of Words
Every
morning I write for at least 1,000 words. Sometimes that takes just an hour.
Usually it takes most of the morning.
On
good days, I surpass 1,000 words easily. Well, the work doesn’t start out
easy, ever, but once I’ve been writing for a page or so, however long that
takes, things usually start to pick up. I re-discover the character. I find her
voice again. I know it’s going more difficult when I’m counting words: every
few minutes, stopping to highlight and check (Am I at 1,000 yet? Am I at
1,000 yet?).
On
days I’m not teaching, I also write in the afternoons. I concentrate then on
the work I do for magazines: researching, interviewing and writing pieces about
stories from history and the mountains of Appalachia, where I live. I am
especially fond of writing about abandoned places and forgotten things and
people.
Fiction
is hard for me, and so I try to give it the best of me: when I first wake up,
before I’m too worn out (by email, grading, cooking, bills, and everything
else) to think properly. If I write some in the morning, I also feel the rest
of the day can go badly, if it must…at least I got that writing done!
I
heard a rumor that one day when Charles Dickens wrote 10,000 words, he leapt
from his desk and ran through the streets, shouting, I wrote 10,000 words
today! I wrote 10,000 words today! Once, I wrote 10,000 words in one day,
but I didn’t run through the streets; I stayed home and iced my hands.
SUPERVISION
is not really my first novel; it’s my fourth. My first novel attempt was a mess
of outlines and index cards and autobiography and metaphors. I tried again
twice before SUPERVISION was accepted. I’ve completed another novel since
SUPERVISION, and I just started a new manuscript. I just try to keep going. I
don’t know how it’s going to turn out, what will be sold and read or not, so I
try not to think about it too much, to just keep my head down and do what I
love, which is telling tales.
So
the answer to how much I write is really: always. Just always. I am
always writing, if not physically on paper, then in my brain, turning over a
story, living with a character, trying to tell her truths.
I’m
happiest when I’m halfway—sometimes more than halfway—in the world of a new
novel. I carry it with me, in my head and in my heart, and then I am never
alone.
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Giveaway:
Tour-wide giveaway (INTL)
--3x ebook copies of SUPERVISION and 2x original graffiti art prints based on SUPERVISION
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You can find the tour schedule here: (http://xpressobooktours.com/
Please thank Alison for joining us today! Please check out all the links listed on this page!
Keep Writing!
Jodie Pierce
That's always what I hear from authors -that no matter what, just write, even if you don't feel like it. Set a certain daily goal and write. :) Great post, ladies!
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