by Diana Renn | Aug 28, 2013 | Boston Teen Author Festival 2013, Cambridge Public Library, Latitude Zero
It’s been a been busy summer! With the exception of a brief jaunt to visit family in California, I’ve been nose-to-the-grindstone, hard at working finishing my next novel, Latitude Zero, which I’m pleased to report is now in the final editing stages!...
by Diana Renn | Jun 13, 2013 | GoodReads giveaway, signed copies of Tokyo Heist, Tokyo Heist, Tokyo Heist paperback
Looking for a little extra something to slip into a beach bag this summer? How about a sleek, slim, PAPERBACK copy of Tokyo Heist? To celebrate the paperback release today, I’m giving away three signed copies on GoodReads. This handy widget will take you...
by Diana Renn | Jun 12, 2013 | Revising a novel, revision tips
So here’s my desk at the moment, after my latest novel revision.I know. It’s not pretty.What’s worse is the entire floor looks the same way. I couldn’t bear to take a picture of the full horror of the scene. I’m normally an organized...
by Diana Renn | Apr 26, 2013 | A.C. Gaughen, Books for Boston, Boston kidlit auction for marathon victims, Boston Public Library, K.T. Crowley, Kimberly Sabatini, The Write Stuff for Boston
Last week’s tragedies hit uncomfortably close to home. In 1994, I moved to Boston for school. For many years I lived in Brookline and Brighton, and watched the Boston Marathon run right down my streets. In 2004, my husband and I moved to a town bordering...
by Diana Renn | Apr 3, 2013 | Kate Burak, Kerri Majors, National Poetry Month, poem a day project, YARN
I rarely write poems. Okay, I never do. I used to, many years ago, and I don’t know what happened, why the poetry ideas dried up. I love reading poems, but I think somewhere along the way my ideas started talking to me in full-on sentences, and paragraphs...