Jodi Meadows

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Reviews of the Week with Jodi Meadows, Chaz Hayden, and more, by | Booklist Online

Oct 15, 2024 | booklistonline.com | Jodi Meadows

First published October 15, 2024 (Booklist Online). The Booklist Review of the Day, posted to the top of the Booklist Online home page each day of the week, spotlights exceptional upcoming titles that are notable for different reasons—they may be starred, in high demand, or especially relevant to the current issue’s spotlight. The Reviews of the Week, posted each Monday, offers a comprehensive look at the previous week’s awardees—while also piquing interest for the week ahead.
Bye Forever, I Guess by Jodi Meadows

Oct 4, 2024 | readandreviews.blogspot.com | Jodi Meadows

Thirteen-year-old Ingrid’s been living a double life. At school, she’s the Girl With Dead Parents, her popular friend Rachel’s charity case. Online, things are different: she crushes it in her favorite MMORPG, geeks out in her favorite fantasy fandom, and runs a popular social media account. If only real life were that easy. But when Ingrid finally stands up to Rachel and “starts drama,” it suddenly feels like she has no life at all . . . and nowhere to sit at lunch.
Bye Forever, I Guess

Oct 1, 2024 | booklistonline.com | Jodi Meadows

Oct. 2024. 288p. Holiday, $18.99 (9780823456383). Grades 5-8. REVIEW. First published October 1, 2024 (Booklist). Insecure middle-school student Ingrid is a gamer girl who just happens to have an extremely popular (but anonymous) Scrollr account, called Bye Forever, I Guess, on which she posts text conversations she’s carried out with wrong numbers. Only her best friend (Rachel), her online friend, and her grandmother know the truth about it—that is, until Rachel betrays her.
MY SALTY MARY | Kirkus Reviews

Aug 20, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Cynthia Hand |Brodi Ashton |Jodi Meadows |Laura Nowlin

This swashbuckling tale anchored by historical details is a treasure. A saucy, feminist take on “The Little Mermaid.”This clever mashup includes actual 18th-century women pirates Mary Read and Anne Bonny, not to mention Blackbeard’s son, Tobias, legendary pirate Calico Jack, and a whole host of captains (Ahab! Crunch! Hook!). Woebegone mermaid Mary falls in love with a boy she rescues and becomes human to be with him. Alas, he turns out to be a narcissistic blowhard.
Má lady Jana (2024)

Jun 27, 2024 | csfd.cz | Cynthia Hand |Brodi Ashton |Jodi Meadows

Jste připraveni na strhující příběh o pravé lásce a velkolepém dobrodružství plný kralovražedných maniaků, neohrožených hrdinů, ďábelských intrik, statečných duelů se špetkou magického realismu a pořádnou dávkou sexu? Že se vůbec ptáme. Vítejte, tohle je Má lady Jana. (Prime Video)
When you know you're writing for a limited readership

Aug 15, 2023 | jodimeadows.substack.com | Jodi Meadows

Thereâs a weird feeling that comes along with writing a series: the sense that youâre writing for a smaller and smaller audience with every book. And if you think about it too much, it can feel really bleak. You might start to ask yourself . . . why am I working so hard? Should I bother? Who the heck is even going to know this book exists?
Shaking up publishing

Jul 31, 2023 | jodimeadows.substack.com | Jodi Meadows

One of my things is helping authors understand the industry so they can better advocate for themselves. And find good advocates for their careers â good agents, good publishers. I thought a lot about whether I wanted to talk about Bindery, the new publishing startup.
How to completely control your writing career

Jul 25, 2023 | jodimeadows.substack.com | Jodi Meadows

If thereās one thing about writers, itās that we love to tell stories. If thereās another thing about writers . . . itās that most of us are desperate to have some kind of control over our careers. Or at least feel like we have control. Iāll be honest: Iām no exception. Let me tell you how I deal with it. From the moment we decide we want to be published by a traditional publishing house, most of us start looking for some kind of Magic Get Published Button.
Writing at the speed of publishing

May 30, 2023 | jodimeadows.substack.com | Jodi Meadows

Iâ€™ve been thinking about what it means to be a slow writer. Or a fast writer. Or a somewhere in-between writer. And how what we want to be can change over time â€” and how we can get trapped in cycles that force us into undesirable production speeds. Primarily, Iâ€™m going to talk about wanting to slow down. But I need to acknowledge the privilege in that. The fact is, I have work. I have had work. And boy do I feel lucky.
How to write a query letter

May 24, 2023 | jodimeadows.substack.com | Jodi Meadows

This is a post I wrote years ago, which I am dragging back into the light after a discussion about query letters in one of my writing groups. I should say upfront that itâ€™s been . . . a while since Iâ€™ve queried. But I do still write them for myself â€” and for proposals I share with my agent, which eventually get shared with editors.