By BookHive Admin on Friday, March 17th, 2017 in BookHive Corp, Novels, Writing, Young Adult. No Comments
My reading list always feels almost overwhelmingly long. Between book recommendations from friends and the New York Times and classics I somehow didn’t have to read in school, constantly updating to include new releases, I will probably never end up completing it. But thanks to the joy of reading and discovering new worlds in books, […]
By Jennifer Bowen on Monday, November 7th, 2016 in BookHive Corp, Novels, Writing, Young Adult. No Comments
Recently I’ve had the pleasure of meeting and befriending Brian Geffen, editor at Penguin Random House’s children’s division, called Philomel. He is a smart, friendly, wonderful person and was kind enough to answer some questions for BookHive. Here’s how that conversation went down: Tallie: How long have you been in publishing? How long have you […]
By Jennifer Bowen on Saturday, October 8th, 2016 in BookHive Corp, Novels, Writing, Young Adult. No Comments
When I first began writing regularly, I didn’t necessarily think of myself as a “writer.” I thought of myself as someone who liked to write, but never someone who would try to make a career out it it. Since then, I have written one full-length YA novel, about 17-year-old Mason Radley who develops schizophrenia when […]
By Jennifer Bowen on Tuesday, February 9th, 2016 in BookHive Corp, Literary Agent, Writing, Young Adult. No Comments
This week, I’m going to be talking about the subject I know most about: myself! Well, sort of. Jen has asked me to talk about my own experience with finding a literary agent, and I have agreed to lay out my experience with the daunting task of finding representation. I wrote my first YA fiction […]
By Jennifer Bowen on Thursday, January 14th, 2016 in BookHive Corp. No Comments
I soft launched BookHive about a year and a half ago. We do beta reader research for authors with Fiction, YA/Middle Grade and Memoir manuscripts. I’ve learned a lot about what makes a great beta reader and am still learning. Our results for each testing are a 35+ page report full of feedback, both qualitative […]
By Jennifer Bowen on Thursday, August 27th, 2015 in BookHive Corp. No Comments
When a manuscript rises to the top at BookHive that we test with our beta readers – we name that writer our Author-Of-The-Month! Three cheers for Elisabeth Morten on delivering the goods in her second book, Red Dove: Tell Truth to Darkness, in her YA trilogy. This interview covers what her book is about, her […]
By Jennifer Bowen on Sunday, May 25th, 2014 in New Business, Novels, Research, Writing, Young Adult. No Comments
What does a 34 year-old-woman do after she’s written a Young Adult novel? She has doubts. That was the state I found myself in. I’m what we’d call ‘yold.’ That’s young and old, people. Young enough that I can still remember being seventeen as not some foreign state. But old enough that I worried my […]