Gina Damico
Author, walrus tusk polisher
- So, I write books. My debut YA novel CROAK is on sale now, and the sequel, SCORCH, will be out in September - both from Graphia/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt . I enjoy processed cheese snacks and videos of people falling down.
Stalk me, won't you?
Hey maybe buy my book
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Category Archives: Writing
Interview with the Agent: Tina Wexler of ICM
Back in the days of endless research into how write a query letter, how to get an agent, how not to snap and become an axe murderer on the road to publication, etc., I read a lot about how your … Continue reading
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Tagged cougartown, Croak, icm, literary agent, tina wexler, titanic, yalit
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Interview with the Editor: Julie Tibbott of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
It may shock you to learn this, but I am not in fact sitting in a warehouse somewhere, painstakingly writing each and every copy of Croak by hand. There is a whole team of people who have got my back, … Continue reading
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Tagged avocados, Croak, editor, houghton mifflin harcourt, julie tibbott, muppets, yalit
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Craptitude: a perfectly cromulent word
I’m currently in the middle of copyedits for Book 2, Scorch. Much to my absolute delight, they arrived with a style sheet, which is basically a big list of the made-up words, titles, and general nonsense that maniacally spewed forth … Continue reading
Writesgiving
Look, I’m obviously thankful for family, friends, my catfighting cats, the wonderful people and humbling fortune I’ve met in this burgeoning writing career, and cheeseballs. But what about the unsung heroes that I couldn’t have put two words together without? … Continue reading
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The Five Stages of Grief Edits
The revisions cave is a dank, lightless place. Discarded commas lay all about. Plot holes open up like gaping chasms. Dialogue that never quite landed in the right way juts up from the floor. Stalactites of deleted scenes hang overhead, … Continue reading
And all it took was a 450-mile round trip.
It was time to dive into revisions for Scorch, my second book. And I was stuck. Luckily, Will and I threw a party this weekend. There was a chocolate fountain, some fondue, a game that involved estimating the number of … Continue reading
Posted in Etcetera, Writing
Tagged agents, Croak, deep fried oreos, editors, julie tibbott, new york city, occupy wall street, scorch, statue of liberty, steve jobs, tina wexler, titanic, ya, yalit
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