Author: Rachel

Welcome to the web home of Rachel Heston Davis--young adult lit writer, newspaper stringer, and associate editor at Written World Communications. Please, make yourself at home. :) You can find loads of information here. For a peek into the secret life of an obsessive writer, read my blog. To see those writing projects on which I'm obsessing, visit the Writing page. If you're a fellow storyteller or story reader, I recommend Resources and Links to point you in the right direction. And as always, check my news feed for updates on projects and publishing!

Book Club and Published Review

ByRachel August 28, 2009 2 Comments

Some updates: First, I've already announced that the next meeting of the Up and Writing Book Club will take place Friday, Sept. 4. Discussion will include the first and second sections MELTING STONES by Tamora Pierce (first section: to the end of chapter 6. second section: to the end of chapter 11.) Come and enjoy the discussion! The post will be up starting in the wee hours of the morning, so...

The "Best Of" Book to Movie List

ByRachel August 27, 2009 9 Comments

A recent flurry of blogging on the subject "Books vs. movies: which is better?" got me thinking about the whole book-t0-movie phenomenon. I even got in on the debate in a guest-blog over at Cinema Three (movie connaisseur Silver Autumn's witty blog about films and pop-culture). My thoughts on this subject are many. On the one hand, books and movies are such different media that I feel odd...

Publishing Short Stories

ByRachel August 26, 2009 2 Comments

We novel writers feel the temptation to put all our publishing eggs in one basket. Because novels are so time-consuming to produce, we spend most of our writing time on that and little (if any) on short stories or articles. Trouble is, short stories and articles have a greater chance of getting published, thus creating that valuable list of publishing credits that agents and editors like to see...

Book Club Update

ByRachel August 25, 2009 0 Comments

So, I'm getting the feeling that most of you didn't have time to get and/or read MELTING STONES before this week. LOL. Holly Pants gets the prize for the first book club comment, though. :) Here's what I think we'll do. Next time, I was going to post discussion starters for the next quarter of the book. Since we didn't really discuss the first quarter this week, we'll leave the first quarter and...

MELTING STONES: Week 1

ByRachel August 23, 2009 2 Comments

Up and Writing Book Club MELTING STONES, Week 1: Chapters 1-6 (p 1-85) Welcome to Up and Writing's first book club meeting. Let's jump right in, shall we? I'll start the conversation off with a few thoughts: First, I'd just like to say I really enjoyed this book. The first six chapters are enough to let the reader know that this won't be a run-of-the-mill YA fantasy. We've got a teen...