Jill Murray
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Julie Wilson has a great piece up at Book Madam & Associates about critiques, first readers, and getting your manuscript ready for submission.
Spoiler: I am one of the writers interviewed. I highlight the important differences between listening to voices that come from inside and outside your own head.
Continue Reading →I’m interviewed today by my neighborhood pal Alan Silberberg. Alan is a middle-grade author, cartoonist, and TV writer whose latest book, MILO is coming out later this summer. I’m really looking forward to reading it. He interviewed me about everything from food to writing… and then things got a little personal.
ALAN: [...]
Continue Reading →I’ve had the great pleasure of seeing Rhythm and Blues all over YA Book Shelf this week. Melissa is making tons of noise about YA on her blog, and the enthusiasm is infectious. If you love reading and YA, you should definitely check it out, and I’m not just saying that because of this Continue Reading →
A recent review of Rhythm and Blues focused on the celebrity aspect of the book. Fifteen year old Kayla said:
“It definitally[sic] made me wonder if a lot of celebrities I’ve heard of are actually like they portray themselves on talk shows and in interviews or if they’re just playing a part for publicity [...]
Continue Reading →I just wanted to take a moment and share some links to stuff going on elsewhere on the intertubes:
Last weekend, I was part of a great Blue Metropolis Literary Festival panel on breaking into the kidlit market with my fellow authors, J.L. Scharf, Alan Silberberg, and Raquel Rivera. Alan’s got [...]
Continue Reading →I had a GREAT time at CKUT radio’s Queer Corps yesterday, and I’m not just saying that because the host, John Custodio, assumed I was not long out of my teens.
We talked about everything a YA author wants to talk about, and some things we don’t: what defines YA, how much variety there [...]
Continue Reading →Hello from snowy Montreal!
Despite the snow, it’s great to be back home. I was in Toronto for a week, and I had an AMAZING book launch. Andrew Tolson took some marvelous photos, and you can see them over here on the Quill & Quire blog. A BIG thanks [...]
Continue Reading →Online interviews are sprouting up like daffodils this week!
My interview with My Ever-Expanding Library is now live. I got to talk about dancing, inspiration and the open-mindedness of teens, so I had a lot of fun. Here’s my answer to a question I liked, about the challenge of writing a second novel, compared [...]
Continue Reading →The first review of Rhtyhm and Blues has come in from Queer YA: Fiction for LGTBQ Teens, and… it’s a hit!
“Murray really nails the voice here, and the plot is anything but trite. I want to read more by this author, and was delighted to learn this book is actually a sequel. Recommended [...]
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