Jill Murray
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Continue Reading →Hello, good people of the future! (That’s what 2010 is supposed to be, even if we have no robo-maid-toaster-flying-cars to show for it, right?)
I woke up sick this morning, and have spent the whole day in bed, but I’m trying to see it as a good thing. For instance: I get to update my [...]
Continue Reading →Look at the fun thing that landed in my inbox today!
It’s the cover for my next book, Rhythm and Blues, due out on February 9, 2010!
Continue Reading →As I mentioned the other day, I finished looking over the copyedit of Rhythm & Blues.
How does a writer celebrate such a milestone? She starts working on something else, of course.
For me, this time, it’s not quite that tidy. I’ve had enough lag time between editorial phases on R&B that I’ve already [...]
Continue Reading →I just reviewed the copy-edit of my upcoming YA novel, Rhythm & Blues and sent it back to my editor– the last benchmark to pass before typsetting. Hard to believe after working on it so long, that it’ll be on bookstore shelves in just five months! Even harder to believe that by then it will [...]
Continue Reading →It’s been a chilly summer so far in Montreal, but the weather isn’t the only thing keeping my mind on next winter. I’m in the final stages of preparing my February 2010 novel, Rhythm & Blues, for publication. I’m plugging away hard at revisions, and today I got this pleasant surprise in my inbox: catalogue [...]
Continue Reading →I hope everyone out there is having a good summer despite the rainy weather. (Or perhaps it’s not even raining where you are, in which case, good for you!) A couple of weeks ago, I handed off a revision of my next novel, Rhythm & Blues to my editor at Doubleday Canada, and then the [...]
Continue Reading →Part of my research for my upcoming novel, Rhythm & Blues (Doubleday, 2010) involved subscribing to RSS feeds from celebrity “news and gossip” sites (or gossip and gossip if you prefer). So I’m almost too familiar with the narrow view of LA you can glimpse past the preening and puking stars that populate celebrity news [...]
Continue Reading →Sometime La S worries that she, I dunno, comes across like she’s worked herself into a frothy rage over a manuscript I’ve saddled her with. I’ll get the occasional one back completely gummy with post-its that just say “NO!” and whole pages X-ed out in dried blood, with only repeated exclamation points for explanation. “Um, [...]
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