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I met Joanne Levy through the Toronto Area Middle Course & Young Adult Author Group (Torkidlit), and was excited to hear about her upcoming book, Pocket-size Medium At Big , published by Bloomsbury. If you're in the Hamilton surface area on July 14th, do check out Joanne's volume launch party. (Note: there will be CUPCAKES!)

You can follow Joanne on Twitter, on Facebook and on her website: Joannelevy.com.

Virtually Modest MEDIUM AT Large: After she's hit by lightning at a nuptials, twelve-year-old Lilah Blossom develops a new talent: she tin can hear dead people. Among them, at that place'due south her overopinionated Bubby Dora; a prissy fashion designer; and an approval-seeking clown who livens up a séance. With Bubby Dora leading the way, these and other sweetly imperfect ghosts haunt Lilah through seventh form, and help her confront her one big fear: talking to—and mayhap going to the seventh-course dance with—her vanquish, Andrew Finkel.

Pocket-sized MEDIUM AT LARGE comes out June 26 in Canada and July 3 in the U.Southward.

Could y'all delight tell me a little scrap most your volume? What inspired you lot to write information technology? What it's about?

The story of what inspired SMALL MEDIUM AT Large isn't all that exciting—it began as a championship. Unremarkably, I get near halfway through a book earlier I come up upwards with something to phone call it, but this championship came to me fully formed i forenoon when I woke upwards. I was working on other projects at the time, so I tucked it away, but information technology nagged at me for about a year until I figured I'd better just sit down and write information technology. The championship pretty much dictated what information technology would be about.

Wow, it began as a title? That's great! Has this happened to you before or since? Exercise you proceed a notebook of title ideas?

Thanks, Debbie! I really have another really cracking championship that popped into my head one day, but I have notwithstanding to write the book, so I'm going to go on that one under wraps for now. That said, it'due south usually through writing the book that I come upwardly with a title. I attempt to come with something that'southward catchy only has a lot of meaning at the same time—stuff with multiple layers/meanings are ever good. But I will say that information technology'southward nice when my subconscious does the heavy lifting for me and gives me something great to work with!

How much outlining practice you lot practise? What is your typical work process or work twenty-four hours?

I do zilch outlining. I ordinarily start with about iv or 5 plot points in my head and just sit down and starting time writing. I've tried to force myself to become an outliner (which would save me a lot of trouble down the road) simply my encephalon just doesn't work that way. As for my work day? Well, I exercise have a full-time chore to work around, so much of my writing is washed in big chunks on the weekend and sometimes in the evenings, if I accept time after Tweeting and Facebooking. ;-)

Do you lot do much revision? What'southward your revision/editing process?

 I'll exist honest: I don't beloved editing. For me, the love is in the drafting and discovery of the plot and the characters, then the editing is the really hard piece of work. I edit a lot as I get, so generally my offset completed drafts are pretty clean.

But, when you don't outline, editing for content beyond the start draft is actually necessary to go everything in guild and layer in details.  That ways several drafts. I exercise attempt to put my kickoff drafts away for a bit (and ship them off to beta readers) so I tin await at them with fresh eyes after some percolate time.

Then I pull them out and starting time with large picture stuff, much of which will accept come up from beta readers. Does the story work? Whatever big inconsistencies or holes? Are the characters' motivations realistic? That's usually two or three passes, peculiarly if I'thou calculation/deleting scenes.

And then I get-go in a little closer with the detail piece of work—names, events, timelines – does everything line upwardly? After that, I do a final 'detect and replace' to get rid of my overused words like 'that' and 'simply' and my many concrete tics – head shaking, nodding, winking.

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You originally began Pocket-size MEDIUM as a YA. What was your reaction when your editor suggested it would work well for a younger audience?

The first time she came to me to inquire if I would consider rewriting it, (and simply to be clear, this wasn't the editor who ended upwards buying the book) I was flattered that she loved information technology and so much, but I thought someone else would similar it as it was, so I respectfully declined.

The second fourth dimension she came back and asked, nearly a yr later, subsequently we hadn't sold the book, I figured why not? I really had no thought what I was doing, but she suggested some reading and had faith that I could do information technology. She was apparently right, and although she didn't end upwards being the editor who bought the volume, I'm grateful for her vision.

Do y'all have any advice for writers who aren't sure whether their work-in-progress is MG or YA?

Read a lot of both and get a good ear for the vocalism. I wasn't familiar with MG, (other than what I read every bit a kid)  until I started reading it for research, just information technology fabricated a lot of sense one time I got a good really proficient sense of taste of information technology. Hither's an fantabulous list of differences – I peculiarly like #3 about the focus.

What communication do you have for aspiring authors?

Read a lot. Write a lot. And fix to toughen up your skin—this is a tough industry where heartache, rejection and bad news are pretty much guarantees. BUT if you are passionate, willing to put in the time and effort, and can stick information technology out, the rewards can exist amazing!

What books are yous reading right at present?

 My tastes are very eclectic—as much equally I love books for kids, I also savor grown up escape reads, also! I just finished an ARC of IN A FIX by Linda Grimes – a volume for grownups, but filled with lots of laughs and was great fun. As for MG, I recently read THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN past Katherine Applegate and loved information technology a lot. Upwardly next is the YA, THE STATISTICAL PROBABILITY OF Beloved AT First SIGHT by Jennifer E. Smith – I've actually been looking forward to reading this one for a while and I've been hearing lots of great things about it.

What are you working on now? Anything else yous'd similar people to know?

I'grand working on several different projects: more than eye class and a funny YA that I'grand hoping will exist a great follow up to Minor MEDIUM AT LARGE as my readers get a bit older. Nothing I can talk about specifically just notwithstanding, but I can tell you, all the stuff I'm working on will make you laugh!

Where can people find you online?

I'g all over the place!

Web: joannelevy.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JoanneLevyAuthor

Twitter: @joannelevy

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