TV appearance and Teen Author Reading Night!!

I got the chance to go on Good Day New York on Fox 5/ WNYW to talk about my books!

Here's a link to the segment: click here!

At the end of the segment, I spoke about a teen author reading night I was taking part in -- it's tonight -- I hope you'll come check it out!!

August 1 – Teen Author Reading Night (6-7:30, Jefferson Market Branch of NYPL, corner of 6^th Ave and 10^th St)

Kit Frick, See All the Stars

Gordon Korman, Whatshisface

Shani Petroff, Airports, Exes, & Other Things I'm Over

Tiffany Schmidt, Bookish Boyfriends

Nisha Sharma, My So-Called Bollywood Life

Melissa Walker, Why Can’t I Be You

FOX 5 & ASH

Here's the weekend crew of Fox 5 - WNYW reading their new favorite book, ASH! ;)

FOX 5 APPEARANCE

I've freelanced at Fox 5 in Manhattan for years (writing, segment producing, etc.) -- I spend so much time there that it's almost a home away from home! My fabulous friends and co-workers had me and Darci on Good Day New York to talk about ASH!

You can check out the segment by clicking here!

I said I would write more about the Fox 5 shoot... so here it goes!

It was actually a lot of fun-- I got to chat with my agent, editor, publisher and publicist all in one place.

We only had limited time because Fox needed to send Ralph, both an amazing cameraman and guy, to another story when he was done.

So we got right to it-- doing interviews, shooting b-roll and set up shots. I.e. us sitting at the table chatting. (It's something we would have done anyway--and yet it was hard not to be self conscious about it with the camera recording every little thing we said. I don't know how reality TV stars do it.)

It made me feel very lucky. Warning: Here comes a little bit of a gush fest. I adore my agent, Jodi, and editor, Judy, and had the chance to hang out with them for a bit. And that's always fun. And it was the first time I met my publicist, Allison, and publisher, Francesco, in person. They were awesome. Super supportive, nice, charming. I was sad when it was time to leave, I would have loved to have spent more time with everyone.

But it was time to get back to the station. I was really happy with the way the piece turned out! It's still on myfoxny.com--so if you haven't seen it check it out!

After the piece aired, I got several e-mails about breaking into children's publishing, getting an agent, etc. I'll try to talk more about that over time as well.

But one specific question I got several times was can you put me in touch with your agent, how do I query her, etc? I share an agent with fellow debut author (who is also a New York Times best seller!!!) Aprilynne Pike. She addressed this question in her blog awhile back. She gave a great answer--so for those interested in Jodi, check it out!

http://apparentlyaprilynne.blogspot.com/2009/02/querying-jodi.html

Fox 5 piece

The station where I work did a great piece on How to Get Published, and it featured Bedeviled!
Check it out:

http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/entertainment/090820_Getting_A_Book_Deal

I'll write more about the shoot soon!