{"id":1056,"date":"2012-01-16T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1056"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:35:09","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:35:09","slug":"bits-and-bobs-power-of-words-art-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1056","title":{"rendered":"Bits and Bobs: The Power of Words, The Art of Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollycupala.com\/\">Holly Cupala<\/a> is one of our longtime author friends and blog buds, as well as a kindred spirit, so we&#8217;re happy to help plug her newest book, <i>Don&#8217;t Breathe A Word<\/i>, which is already getting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollycupala.com\/2005\/01\/tell-me-secret.html\" target=\"_blank\">some great buzz<\/a>. Not only that, ten percent of the author proceeds go toward <a href=\"http:\/\/donate.worldvision.org\/OA_HTML\/xxwv2ibeCCtpItmDspRte.jsp?section=10370&amp;item=186\">Hope for Sexually Exploited Girls<\/a>. All of those are reasons why I was happy to do my part to help get the word out, along with numerous other amazing (far more amazing than me!) YA authors, as part of this YouTube video on how <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/u8oqs9n7Ao4\" target=\"_blank\">Words Have Power<\/a>: <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u8oqs9n7Ao4\" width=\"420\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>\nI can only wish I was less dorktacular in this video, but I hope my words and everyone&#8217;s still ring true. I was thrilled to be a part of it and join Justina Chen, Melissa Walker,  Stephanie Kuehnert, Beth Kephart, Denise Jaden, Lish McBride, Lisa  Schroeder, Cynthia Jaynes, Tara Kelly, Joelle Anthony, Stasia Ward  Kehoe, Janet S. Fox, Tina Ferraro, and Janet Lee Carey in such a worthwhile endeavor. Thanks, Holly, and congrats on your latest!<\/p>\n<p>\nNeed motivation, but the shoulds and the expectations keep bogging you down? Dear Sugar says, don&#8217;t write &#8220;like a man.&#8221; Don&#8217;t write &#8220;like a woman.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/therumpus.net\/2010\/08\/dear-sugar-the-rumpus-advice-column-48-write-like-a-motherfucker\/\" target=\"_blank\">Write like a motherfucker<\/a>. (I would say Pardon my French, but it isn&#8217;t MY French. I&#8217;m just quoting. Plus Tanita sent it to me in the first place.) <\/p>\n<p>\nIf that&#8217;s not working for you, here are some pretty pictures.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/RepurposedBook2.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/RepurposedBook2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/RepurposedBook1.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/RepurposedBook1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\nMore wild, gorgeous repurposed books are in the slideshow accompanying this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/lifestyle\/homestyle\/extended-shelf-life-20120105-1plm7.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Sydney Morning Herald<\/i> article<\/a>. (Link via Jim at <a href=\"http:\/\/thisintothat.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">This Into That<\/a>, whose work is mentioned in the article.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holly Cupala is one of our longtime author friends and blog buds, as well as a kindred spirit, so we&#8217;re happy to help plug&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2,60,78,15,10],"class_list":["post-1056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-af","tag-book-news","tag-literary-life-observations","tag-random-notes-and-errata","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6915,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions\/6915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}