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Thanks to Fox Literary Agency and Books Crossing Borders, the Russian language rights for Salt and Silver have been sold to Azbooka Klassica Publishers! Russian-language readers, look out for demons and Doors to Hell!

More information as we have it…

We’re not the best people at updating, but we can say a lot in 140 characters or less — try following Anna and Katherine on Twitter. The best questions we get there, we’ll talk about here!

This went up a couple of days ago, actually, but we have a lovely guest post and contest up at Literary Escapism — it’s about telling lies as a writer:

One of the big writer maxims is: Write what you know.

It’s advice that usually works. Do you want real action, real emotions, real consequences? Remember what you’ve done in your own life, and write it out. “Write what you know” is a classic for a reason: pour all that lust for your midnight lover into your sex scenes, add the tiny details about what it’s like to live in Boise, Idaho, and use the uncomfortable memory of what you saw a friend go through in high school for a surprise plot twist to make the reader weep. Nothing sounds more real than what is actually real.

On the other hand we do sometimes run into problems. After all, how many of us have really faced down a demon? (more…)

And another! With giveaway (natch). This time U.S.A. Today bestselling author — or rather, coauthor — C. T. Adams asked us, among many other things, how we worked out our own crazy coauthoring process:

A: [...] Another great thing we have going for our partnership is the fact that many of our skills and talents are complementary. For example, I am terrible at plotting, while Kat is absolutely amazing at it. I am great at writing sex scenes and emotional confrontations.

K: –Yes! Whereas I tend to shut my eyes and flail a bit. Though I do go back in and edit, and I think I tend to leave notes for Anna like, “Then they do something emotional here.” (more…)

There’s a guest post up at My Book, the Movie — it talks about writing action scenes:

One of my favorite things to come across while I’m reading is a really fantastic action scene. When the author’s somehow managed to tell me where everybody is, what they’re doing, how they’re feeling, what the action means, and what the consequences are — that’s a real talent, and a gem to come across in print. (more…)