Dear Caroline...
What is PROJECT CANVAS?
What's been the best and worst part of college so far?
If I just bought a fish, what should I name it?
When's your most productive time of day to write?
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I'm going to be mysterious and not answer any of these questions in this blog post. BUT–
These would all be GREAT questions to ask me TOMORROW at the Twitter party!
What Twitter party, you shout, desperate for answers?
I CAN answer that question. Joshua C. Forrest, my wonderful composer friend, is hosting an AMA (Ask Me Anything) tomorrow, March 31st at 7pm US CST with the hashtag #JCFPatreon. There will be questions. There will be answers. There will also be two more wonderful people, Aimee Meester and Carly Racklin! They'll be talking about some of their recent projects (an Irish mob novella and a medieval fantasy novella, respectively). Aimee is also the writer and producer of The Bright Eyes Podcast, so if you're still wondering where Milo is, be on Twitter at 7pm sharp. She'll be there, cornered, no place to hide, and you'll finally get your burning questions answered.
Speaking of current projects, I am going to answer the first question I asked at the beginning of the post, hehe.
PROJECT CANVAS was co-founded with Olivia Rogers in February 2017. We wanted to create a book of writing advice/motivation/inspiration for teen and young adult writers. After a little brainstorming, we decided to combine writing-craft-book with anthology, and we started looking for people who were interested in contributing a chapter to the project. The global writing community responded faster than we could have imagined. By the end of the month, we had 60 young bloggers and writers, from 9 different countries, committed to writing a 'mini chapter' for Project Canvas.
Where are we now?
PROJECT CANVAS is in the final stages of editing. As we work on formatting and marketing, I've been drafting query letters to send to some independent publishers. We don't have a set release date yet since we've decided to pursue traditional publishing, but we're making progress in the meantime. Last fall, some of the contributors came together to launch the Project Canvas blog, which features posts and guest posts from many of the same people who contributed to the book!
This project has been such a cool experience. Everyone put their individual passion into what they submitted for the book, and as a young writer myself, it's the greatest thing to see the community come together from five different continents. I'm looking forward to talking more about PROJECT CANVAS at the Twitter party tomorrow, and don't forget to use #JCFPatreon to join!
Get curious! Learn about Aimee, Carly and Joshua! Prepare to interrogate us.
See you tomorrow,
Caroline
