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Name: Daisy Whitney

'10 Book Title: THE MOCKINGBIRDS

Publisher: Little, Brown

Favorite Bit of Writing Advice: Don’t be a weenie when people give your criticism. It’s usually in your best interest.

Favorite and least favorite part of writing:
Favorite: When it all clicks and the characters start rattling around your head, knocking on your skull and simply demanding you to tell their story. This is writing bliss.
Least Favorite: Writer’s Block. (Solution: Go for a walk with my dog)

Outline or Let it fly?: I keep a very vague loose unformed outline in my head? Does that count? But I suspect the outliner’s life will soon be mine since I’m writing a series. And long live Scrivener software, which makes it so much easier for me to keep track of random ideas, notes, thoughts and all those pesky things that need to happen next.

5 things about me
1. When it comes to music I always return to my first love -- Broadway. “Chess,” “Tommy” and “42nd Street” helped me write “The Mockingbirds.”
2. I believe happiness is a choice, karma is real and we should practice what our mom taught us: “If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.”
3. In eighth grade my cat Elinor followed me to school one day. Sort of like Mary Had a A Little Lamb, but with a cat.
4. I am not athletic at all. I am, in fact, a complete dork. BUT I completed three centuries on my bike in one year, including the Death Ride -- 5 mountain passes, 16,000 feet of climbing and 129 miles. It took me 14 hours and I was one of the last riders to cross the finish line. But I still did it!
5. I wear many hats. In addition to being an author, I’m a reporter covering new media, online video and television for a number of news outlets. I believe authors writing for kids and teens MUST use online video in their promotions and I fully intend to! I also love to help so if any authors or teen bloggers ever want input or advice on video strategy please get in touch.

THE MOCKINGBIRDS Synopsis:
THE MOCKINGBIRDS is about an underground, vigilante group of boarding school students who are committed to righting the wrongs of their peers. As a secret society at a prestigious prep school, they operate as the judge, the jury and the muscle the school can’t be. They take their inspiration from Harper Lee’s TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. And I will post more details on the story itself in the coming months!