Sheila M. Averbuch - Author · @sheilamaverbuch
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Come join us in #Edinburgh tomorrow 6:30 pm for the UK launch of AT THE SPEED OF LIES, by former CIA analyst @cindyotis! When a teen influencer becomes swept up in an online conspiracy after two kids disappear, she races to sort out what's true before the lies can turn deadly. I'll be chatting with Cindy, hosted by @TheEdinburghBookshop. Book your free ticket http://bit.ly/SMAevent1
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Sheila M. Averbuch - Author · @sheilamaverbuch
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Seeing and signing my book FRIEND ME in a #London bookstore is the thrill of my life. Thank you #Waterstones Gower Street for having FRIEND ME (Scholastic) on the shelves of your magnificent children's section. This shop is book paradise, people... stop by if you can. Shown here with a domesticated Dalek (OR IS IT?)
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Sheila M. Averbuch - Author · @sheilamaverbuch
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You've read about #chatGPT's mixing fact& fiction in that WaPo piece by Pranshu Verma & @willoremus, I hope? Educate yourself about the confident statement of untruths that's rife in ChatGPT. When I questioned the thing about why it asserted untruths, it humbly agreed with me that it needed to change its ways. I blogged about it here >>
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-chat-gpt-got-me-my-book-really-wrong-sheila-averbuch/
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Sheila M. Averbuch - Author · @sheilamaverbuch
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I'm celebrating World Read Aloud Day by donating 3 school visits to #middleschools in #Sweden, #Wisconsin and #Illinois! I'll be reading from my book Friend Me and my not-at-all-unsettling robotic cat, FRED, will tag along.
(Want to know more about my virtual school visits? ➡️) https://www.sheilamaverbuch.com/for-teachers/
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Sheila M. Averbuch - Author · @sheilamaverbuch
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Guys, the lovely @blackwells are offering my book for £1 off in its thrillers section -- good for tween and young teen readers in your list! I had a long road to publication and my book baby came out during peak lockdown, so I'm still playing catch-up in helping the world find out about it... Thank you for bearing with me in my seasonal promo!
https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Friend-Me-by-Sheila-M-Averbuch/9781338618082
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Sheila M. Averbuch - Author · @sheilamaverbuch
512 followers · 546 posts · Server mstdn.socialGuys, the lovely @blackwells are offering my book for £1 off in its thrillers section -- good for tween and young teen readers in your list! I had a long road to publication and my book baby came out during peak lockdown, so I'm still playing catch-up in helping the world find out about it... Thank you for bearing with me in my seasonal promo!
https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Friend-Me-by-Sheila-M-Averbuch/9781338618082
#thrillers #middlegrade #YoungAdult #books #tbr #amreading #FriendMe
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Sheila M. Averbuch - Author · @sheilamaverbuch
425 followers · 374 posts · Server mstdn.social@amberlough @bookstodon it feels like a little death – or murder
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Sheila M. Averbuch - Author · @sheilamaverbuch
425 followers · 374 posts · Server mstdn.socialI'm encountering the same scary thing in my current total rewrite of my work in progress: characters are being left on the cutting room floor. It's fine, I know it's going to be fine, because I've done this before.
Have you ever cut or been advised to cut characters? Did you do it? Why or why not?
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Sheila M. Averbuch - Author · @sheilamaverbuch
425 followers · 374 posts · Server mstdn.socialI discovered that when I cut characters, it makes the other relationships so much clearer, but also more precious. I write #middlegrade, so I don't want to have a cast of thousands when my reader could be between 8 and 12 years old.
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Sheila M. Averbuch - Author · @sheilamaverbuch
425 followers · 374 posts · Server mstdn.socialI did, and it worked out fine. The story got better. I cut the first 2800 words of my manuscript & more or less started at chapter 3. Yeah, it was scary. But my agent told me the beginning was still too slow, and she was right. (I love Arturo, who I hope makes it back into another story of mine one day.)
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Sheila M. Averbuch - Author · @sheilamaverbuch
425 followers · 374 posts · Server mstdn.socialI'm going to talk about the hardest thing you might be asked to do to your manuscript -- cut characters. (A thread). I swear I never would have tried this with my debut FRIEND ME if I hadn't been about to go on a week-long writing retreat where I had the time to try this crazy thing.
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Amitha Jagannath Knight · @amitha
124 followers · 151 posts · Server mastodon.coffee@sheilamaverbuch ooh! my daughter might get into #friendme. I'll check it out and see!
Sheila M. Averbuch - Author · @sheilamaverbuch
425 followers · 374 posts · Server mstdn.socialMore #introduction info: I'm a former #technology #journalist from #massachusetts now in #Scotland after years in #Ireland. Keen on #tech #ethics (especially as it affects #children). Also #kidlit #scbwi #scifi #socialjustice #gardening #AI
My debut novel #friendme (#scholastic 2020) is a techno #thriller for #middlegrade about a bullied girl whose bully has a bad accident: she starts to worry that her new best friend, who she only knows online, might be responsible.
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