A number of readers have asked me for some productivity tips and insight into how I manage my writing and working time. As most of my blog readers know, I have a husband, two kids, and a thriving new media business in addition to my burgeoning career as a YA novelist. And, of course, I also have a thoroughly adorable dog I spend time with! Can you spot the dog? I’m…
Daisy Whitney
This is My Story
About Daisy
By day, Daisy Whitney is a producer, on-air correspondent, podcaster and raconteur in the new media business.
At night, she writes novels for teens and is the author of The Mockingbirds, to be published by Little, Brown in November 2010. You can pre-order it on Amazon!
You can follow her blog on writing, reading and editing on this site where she swears her web designer only airbrushed her photos a teensy tiny bit. When Daisy's not inventing fictional high school worlds, she produces conferences for iMedia and provides strategy consulting to businesses on their online video presence and the online video marketplace.
As a reporter, Daisy covers new media for NBC’s KNTV, ABCNews.com, Beet.TV, MediaPost and others.
She is one of the first journalists to launch her own online newscast that covers the business of Internet video – the New Media Minute. Her work is regularly read and watched by executives across the television, cable, advertising and Internet businesses. She also hosts the top-ranked iTunes audio podcast “This Week in Media,” which you should totally subscribe to.
She LOVES talking about books, shoes, chocolate chip cookies and the world's most amazing dog, who happens to be named for a flower too, Violet (Daisy's dog).
Close ThisJune 21, 2010
How to write a novel, or seven, for that matter
June 17, 2010
I’ve now written seven novels
I finished the first draft of Mockingbirds2 this week and as I was finishing it hit me – I have written seven novels. You may be wondering why you haven’t seen any on shelves! Well, “The Mockingbirds” will be my first published novel when it releases in November. The second Mockingbirds book, clearly, will come out after the first one.…
As part of the Girlfriend’s Cyber Circuit, I am pleased to host Wendy Toliver today. Her novel “Lifted” released this week and has received strong reviews from VOYA, Booklist and others! Here’s a description of the story. Being Bad Never Felt So Good. Poppy Browne had never stolen anything in her life before moving to Pleasant Acres,…
June 10, 2010
Typewriter Message – Seize the Day, Every Day
Sometimes life serves up reminders of exactly what you need to hear at precisely the right moment. Like when I walked past this classic typewriter at Shakespeare & Company last week… Words to live by…Do you follow them?
June 9, 2010
A Block in Paris…
This is one of the things I enjoyed about my visit to Paris last week. You see these shops of completely different styles right next to each other on the same block… Modern wine shop Hip restaurant And they look perfect together… The whole block
June 7, 2010
The Mockingbirds at BEA
Some of my blogger friends sent me pictures of “The Mockingbirds” at the recent Book Expo America convention and conference in New York in late May. Here they are! Mockingbirds reading guide before... Mockingbirds reading guide after.... And now…the ARCs themselves! Sort of like an army of Mockingbirds! An army of Mockingbirds Thanks to my friends…
June 2, 2010
More from Paris…
I've been shopping... Yes I fit this all in an EXTRA suitcase! I will miss this... I will miss this too...the window displays are works of art
May 31, 2010
Paris is Beautiful…
Cafe Roussilon at Rue Cler All doors should be this pretty Yum Loved this entryway Seen this before? Night signs
May 28, 2010
Ah, Paris…
There is nothing like this city…Sigh For more photos, click here.
May 27, 2010
A Street in Paris After the Rain
Paris in the Rain