Meg Eden's Blog

Selah is BACK! So excited for you to get to hang out with Selah at writer's camp next summer, and even getting to see a new side to Ezra from Pebblecreek... :)

Thank you so much to everyone who has read and shared encouraging words about Good Different! I am so blown away at all the emails from students and adults alike who have told me that sometimes they feel like Selah, or that this book has felt like it’s captured their feelings. I thought I was the only one, so words can’t express how full I feel, knowing we’re not alone!

I love hearing folks’ thoughts on the book, so If you’ve read the book, would you take a moment to leave an honest review on Amazon? This is especially critical for the book’s success as once a book hits 50 reviews, it gets increased promotion from Amazon. Good Different is a little over halfway there at 30 reviews—your help to hit 50 would mean so much to me! If you’ve reviewed on another site like Goodreads, copying and pasting your review to Amazon would be very helpful!

It's April, which means it's Autism Acceptance month and National Poetry month--

it also means my middle grade novel-in-verse GOOD DIFFERENT is out in the world! Thank you so much to everyone who has supported this book and me on my journey as a writer! I'm so incredibly grateful.

If you are interested in ordering the book: https://lnkd.in/eMWAxhdy

If you'd like to join me at an upcoming event to celebrate: https://lnkd.in/erwikZYp

If you'd like to join in the blog tour giveaway: https://lnkd.in/ee2EbaYB

It’s REAL!

I am so beyond excited to share Selah’s story with you. This book came to me, and found advocates and a home ONLY by God’s grace. I can’t stress that enough. This book is proof of how spiritual and out of our control the writing process is: it’s probably the first book I didn’t overthink, or overdraft, or overedit. It just burst out!

It’s the first book where I claim my autism, and talk about the unseen challenges of living on the spectrum as someone who largely “passes” in society as neurotypical. I love being autistic, and so does Selah! I’m so excited for you to meet her.

If you are interested in staying in the loop, make sure to add it on your Goodreads list: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

I am excited to announce that I am populating my online calendar with some new workshops for the late spring and summer, including a Book Promotion workshop with SCBWI, my Poetic Forms and Foundations of Poetry classes with The Writer’s Center, a special on my popular Literary Magazine workshop (with some exclusive add-on options) and a new Poetry and Mindfulness: Poetic Craft in the Details workshop!

For more information on how to register, make sure to check out my site here: http://www.megedenbooks.com/events

Writers! Writing instructors! I am excited to announce that I now have some resources for DROWNING on my website, including writing prompts, lesson ideas, and supplemental research to integrate studying 3/11 in your classes!

Researching the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and Fukushima powerplant disaster, as well as Japanese mythology and culture at large, brought me to some really rich and incredible resources. Here, I’ve tried to catalogue some of the resources that inspired this book: videos, images, articles, movies, databases and more. While many of these are listed inside the physical book, this digital resource allows readers to more easily navigate between sources—I also included some new ones, as well as some concrete writing prompts for writers and instructors to give a spin. I encourage you to explore these resources for yourself, or to use them in a classroom as a supplemental resource to the text. I’d love to hear how you end up using these resources!

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I am excited to announce that my latest book Drowning in the Floating World is out today! You can order it with my publisher Press 53, Amazon, or my local bookstore Politics and Prose.

Thank you to everyone who has supported this book: everyone who read poems in earlier states and gave feedback, who believed in what I was writing, who published these individual poems, or just shared a kind word. Writing a book takes a village, and I’m just so humbled and grateful for everyone who has helped me along the way.

If you’ve read the book, I’d greatly appreciate if you could share your review on Amazon, Goodreads, or wherever else you like to talk about books. These can greatly help with visibility of the book.
 
If you are interested in other ways to help support the release:


Share about it on social media (please tag @confusednarwhal (twitter) or meden_author (Instagram) and @Press53)

Post about it on Facebook (My page: @megedenwritespoems)

Request it be purchased by your library

Consider purchasing the book for yourself or for gifts

Check out my upcoming events and come say hello! http://www.megedenbooks.com/events

To celebrate the release, SimplyAllyTea is also hosting a giveaway of a FREE arc of Drowning in the Floating World. It’s very easy to enter, and every entry helps promote the book–so it’s a win for everyone! To enter, follow the link to the Rafflecopter below:

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Hey, all! I have a new giveaway for my novel that just came out--any entries or signal boosts would be super appreciated!!! Thanks!!!

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Hey, all--I'm doing a Goodreads giveaway of my upcoming YA book Post-High School Reality Quest! Please enter, and spread the word! <3

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YA fans--I just started a giveaway on Twitter for an advanced release copy of one of my favorite debuts, The Black Witch!

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