Gina Damico
Author, walrus tusk polisher
I enjoy processed cheese snacks and videos of people falling down.
Croak
On sale now, from Graphia/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Scorch
Book #2 in CROAK series
On sale now, from Graphia/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Rogue
Book #3 in Croak series, coming 9/10/13 from Graphia/Houghton Mifflin HarcourtStalk me, won't you?
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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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How I Tricked the Universe Into Giving Me An Awesome Agent
Okay, I’m going to say this right up front so that you have time to lower your pitchforks and put down your cauldrons of burning oil: I never had to query to get my agent. Wait, I said put them … Continue reading
Poor Rabbit
Cross-posted on The Nightstand How did I know I wanted to be a writer? Well, I could tell you all about how I hated writing in high school, then dabbled and fell in love with it in college, then abandoned … Continue reading
End It Like Beckham
Cross-posted on The Nightstand When I started writing Croak, the beginning was easy. Introduce Lex, get her on the bus, have her discover Croak. It practically wrote itself. Or at least, billions of rewrites later, it practically wrote itself. But … Continue reading
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Tagged beginnings, Croak, endings, ketchup, planet of the apes, Writing, ya, yalit
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Mr. Roboto
Cross-posted on The Nightstand Okay, I’ve been thinking about this hero thing all week. And while I’ve tried to assemble a thorough list of my all-time favorite heroes, complete with literary sources and “wasn’t-Frodo-just-the-best?”, there was one character that just … Continue reading
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Tagged brad bird, cold war, harry potter, hero, iron giant, robot, sandwich, wall-e, Writing, yalit
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