{"id":161,"date":"2017-01-24T00:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T00:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=161"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:44:47","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:44:47","slug":"10-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=161","title":{"rendered":"10 Years Ago Today…."},"content":{"rendered":"

I was reading today’s YA newsletter from Book Riot<\/a>, which contains an article with a selection of YA titles from 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50 years ago–and it was interesting to see that some of the YA books and authors I most closely related to some 25-30 years ago were actually ones published closer to when I was born, as well as the ones published while I was a tween\/teen reader. It’s worth taking a look at the article to see which ones you remember!<\/p>\n

Then, that inspired me to check out THIS very blog to see what was happening 10 years ago today. Lo and behold, I posted something 10 years ago today, and it was called Obsessions, Links, and News Bits<\/a>. I used to post a lot more random thoughts and “in case you missed it” links to articles and other blogs. That was before the blogosphere became akin to a rapidly expanding universe spinning endlessly off into infinity. Anyway, in that post I wrote this little tidbit–ah, the memories:<\/p>\n

\nI realized that my personal book-related obsession these days is author photos and jacket bios. One of my favorite author photos is one of Carol Plum-Ucci’s, which looks sort of like this only she’s lounging on some stairs with a cup of coffee looking like a cranky writer up too early. I actually get sort of annoyed when there isn’t an author photo or at least an informative bio. In my head I plan out what sort of author photo I’d want to have, and what I’d write in my bio; I debate whether I will keep with my current plan of having a byline of S.J. Stevenson instead of my full name, and how much information to release to my reading public. Of course, this is contingent on having something book-length actually published. I’m still working on that… <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, A) I actually found the author photo in question on Amazon, right here<\/a>, so you can see what I was referring to, and B) heh, now that I actually HAVE an author photo and bio I’m already thinking ahead to a new one…and C) clearly I did NOT keep with my plan of being S.J. Stevenson<\/a>–so much for plans! But it was almost exactly 4 years later that my first book came out, so I guess I could be thinking about positive January-related associations like that instead of…yeah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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