And for this week's giveaway? We have a special thank you to all of you. I happened to notice this week that we reached over 1500 followers through Blogger, not to mention all of you who follow us through feedburner. We are BEYOND grateful for all your support and encouragement over the past year and a half. We're continuously amazed by you and blessed to be part of the online writing community. In honor of all you do for us, we're going to give away 15 Young Adult and/or Middle Grade titles. To win, please complete the form at the bottom of this post. (Sorry, U.S. and Canadian entries only.) We'll pick the winner and show the titles and reviews on Thursday, but the are GOOD, I promise.
Thanks again, everyone, and big, fat, grateful hugs!
The Ladies of AYAandCP
Clara's Favorites
- Thoughtful analysis on the price of ebooks vs. paper by @JamiGold.#writing
How Much Are You Willing to Pay for an Ebook? | Jami Gold, Paranormal Author - A seriously stellar checklist for world building by @yamuses.#writing
YA Muses: The World Building Checklist - Ignore the industry so you can focus on your amazing book.
Ignoring everything but the writing - How to constantly increase the tension in your ms: a cheatsheet
*Lynnette Labelle* @Chatterbox Chitchat: How Does a Writer Plot Successfully? - 5 of 5 stars for CATCHING JORDAN by @MirandaKenneally!
Confessions of a Bookaholic: Review: Catching Jordan by Miranda Kenneally - Write from your pain and fear: If you need to write it, there’s someone out there who needs to read it. LOVE THIS.
How Writing About Terrible Things Makes the Reader a Better Person - @annerallen lists some of the best tips I've ever read on blogging for authors.
Anne R. Allen's Blog: HOW NOT TO BLOG: Beginning Blogging for Authors Part II - What writers can learn from painters: Is my book finished?
How do writers know when their book or script is done? - Time to Write - Writing a sequel? Every book in a series must outshine the one before it.
The Sharp Angle: On Writing Sequels
Martina's Favorites
- Leaked Hatchette doc lists the four roles traditional publishers serve that self-pubing can't replicate.
http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2011/leaked-hachette-explains-why-publishers-are-relevant/ - Seven writing tips to power your way through writer's block and bad critiques.
7 Things I’ve Learned So Far, by Jan Underwood | WritersDigest.com - WONDERFUL writeup on elements and creation of a screenplay. Applicable for novelists too!
Screenwriting 101: How To Write a Screenplay – The Script Lab - What keeps your character awake at night? What keeps your READERS awake at night?
Copyblogger Editor Admits to Sleeping with Readers and Recommends You Do the Same - Looking to embed tweets and share your blog posts more easily? Here's a how-to from @GalleyCat.
How To Embed Tweets in Your Blog - WOO-HOO Congrats to @LoriMLee who signed with Suzie Townsend of Nancy Coffey!
A Special Annoucement - Write a comment on the TeachingAuthor's blog and help get books to needy kids. Win/Win!Check out this Teaching Authors' Holiday Project
- I LOVE this view about rejection. Love the truth and the writing. Love it. Read it!
25 Truths about Rejection - If you write with heart and soul and passion, you will always be a writer.
ON BEING A REAL WRITER - Is the novel you are about to query the one you want as your debut novel?
Starting Over (or) How You Know When You're REALLY Ready to Query - The most dangerous words in publishing used to be sound advice.
Writer Unboxed » The Twelve Most Dangerous Words for Writers - Buy three books (and much more), or sell your writing with a Tweet.
Sell Your Writing for a Tweet - Seeing the creative process as a board game is eye opening, funny, and all too true. Love this!
Margo Berendsen: Creative Process - Board Game Style - Love this idea! Make your own Christmas tree and have an excuse to buy more books.
Make a Book Christmas Tree - GalleyCat - Lovely post on the importance of writing empathy onto your pages.
Wendy Paine Miller ~ thoughts that move - Gorgeous, moving piece on stopping to reflect and the value of life.
Scrooge moment - Blatherings 2004 Archive - Illustrator and writer - Fabulous post on remembering the dream, examining the path, and taking control.
The Other Side of the Story: Guest Author Angela Ackerman: Keeping Despair at Bay - Great inspirational and cautionary post on what to do while you wait to hear on subs.
Adventures in Agentland: How to Survive WAITING - Ten Tweets that changed countries, lives, opinions, and hearts in 2011.
Top Tweets in 2011 - ADORE this post about positive attitude. Great for character dialogue and voice too!
How a Shift in Your Vocabulary Can Instantly Change Your Attitude - Brilliant speech by Caroline Kennedy about the importance of libraries and librarians.
Caroline Kennedy to Librarians: "Your work is truly life changing." | At Your Library - Great article about @annastanisz in her hometown paper. Congrats, Anna! Loved this!
Author shares magic in modern day fairy tale | Community Advocate - AMAZING cheat sheet to help you pick the right POV.
The Last Point of View Cheat Sheet You’ll Ever Need « DIY MFA - FANTASTIC take on the agent rejection response/nonresponse discussion.
Monthly Posts Archives
Book Reviews and Giveaways
- FRACTURE by Megan Miranda: a quick, smart read with depth and great characters. Reviewed by @yamuses
YA Muses: Fracture by Megan Miranda - A Bookanista Review - An important and cautionary note about character development in this book review of WOLFSBANE.
Writer Musings: Wolfsbane by Andrea Cremer - Writing toward one moment in the book. Great interview with @BethRevis
Amethyst Daydreams: #BIR2011 Interview with Beth Revis, Author of Across the Universe - Enter this MEGA from @YAHighway by 12/19! You won't want to miss it. Y
A Highway's Third Annual Winter Giveaway! - Great review
FUZZY NATION by John Scalzi - 5 of 5 stars for CATCHING JORDAN by @MirandaKenneally!
Confessions of a Bookaholic: Review: Catching Jordan by Miranda Kenneally - Enter by 12/18 to win I'M NOT HER by Janet Gurtler.Book Spotlight and Giveaway: I'M NOT HER
- Write a comment on the TeachingAuthor's blog and help get books to kids. Win/Win!
Check out this Teaching Authors' Holiday Project - Great interview with @SRJohannes
Untraceable and SR Johannes - Win a copy of Mindy Scott's FLYAWAY.
First Page and Giveaway - Get HAUNTED LOVE, an e-short by @CynLeitichSmith free from BandN.
Haunted Love Now Available for Free Download - Enter by 1/7/12 to win a copy of Louisa Caiola's WISHLESS. Great interview with the author, too.
Literary Rambles: LOUISE CAIOLA INTERVIEW AND WISHLESS GIVEAWAY - Make a free bookprint. Share 5 books that shaped your life. And get books to needy kids!
Make a Bookprint
Craft of Writing
- Using carefully chosen detail to "fix" a character in your reader's mind.
Getting the Characters "In" - Make every scene and character count, and cut the flowery descriptions suggests Jody Hedlund.
Write Tight: 3 Pieces of Advice I Wish I’d Known Earlier - Have lightning in your ms? Here's a new weather thesaurus entry.
Weather Thesaurus Entry: Lightning - Describing the landscape and inhabitants of imagination.
Writer’s Den: Describing the Indescribable - Distraction and other ways to lay clues without your reader catching on.
Laying Clues and Adding Twists to Our Story—guest post by Elizabeth S. Craig - Do you struggle to write emotion? Here's a good example.
How Do You Show Feelings? - Step-by-step world building. Excellent tips!
World Building Basics - Seven writing tips to power your way through writer's block and bad critiques.
7 Things I’ve Learned So Far, by Jan Underwood | WritersDigest.com - A seriously stellar checklist for world building
YA Muses: The World Building Checklist - @Janice_Hardy shares a bad critique experience--and how to ensure it never happens again.
The Other Side of the Story: Bad Crit! Bad, Bad, Crit: When Critiques Go Wrong - How to constantly increase the tension in your ms: a cheatsheet
*Lynnette Labelle* @Chatterbox Chitchat: How Does a Writer Plot Successfully? - WONDERFUL writeup on elements and creation of a screenplay. Applicable for novelists too!
Screenwriting 101: How To Write a Screenplay – The Script Lab - Worldbuilding? Here's a horsey case study of the domino effects. Excellent post.
BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » Worldbuilding With Horses: Ramifications - Excellent questions about the reason so many strong female protags end up less than sympathetic.
The Paradox of the Strong Female Protagonist - Have you brought your secondary characters to life on the page?
Harry Potter for Writers: Do Your Secondaries Have Lives of Their Own? - Writers, you should be invisible in your stories. How to spot and fix author intrusion.
What is Author Intrusion | The Editor's Blog - Creating flawed but likable characters.
Julie Musil on Unlikeable Characters - The benefits of developing a thicker critiquing skin.
How To Take Criticism - Looking for a critique partner? Agent Mary Kole (@Kid_Lit) can help you out.
December Critique Connection - Set boundaries for your inner editor.
My Name is Maggie Stiefvater, I'm a Perfectionist, and I Never Stop Editing - Stuck mid-novel? Think one step at a time about what your characters want and need to do.
Decisions, decisions - Patricia C. Wrede's Blog - Eight cheap/free ways to get closer to publication quickly.
Inexpensive Ways to Improve Your Writing or Get Published in 2012 | Mystery Writing is Murder - Lovely post on the importance of writing empathy onto your pages.
Wendy Paine Miller ~ thoughts that move - Weaving world-building and backstory into the beginning of your story--the right way.
Between Fact and Fiction: Writing Beginnings Part 3: World Building - Stingy! What a great new entry for the Character Trait Thesaurus! Scrooge would be proud.
The Bookshelf Muse: Character Trait Thesaurus Entry: Stingy - What writers can learn from painters: Is my book finished?
How do writers know when their book or script is done? - Time to Write - Writing a sequel? Every book in a series must outshine the one before it.
The Sharp Angle: On Writing Sequels - AMAZING cheat sheet to help you pick the right POV.
The Last Point of View Cheat Sheet You’ll Ever Need « DIY MFA - Edge-of-your-seat, 5 of 5 star review for CINDER by Marissa Meyer from @candacemom2two
Candace's Book Blog: Review of a Totally AMAZING Book: Cinder by Marissa Meyer
Inspiration and Smiles
- Looking for great gifts for your writer friends?
Writing from THE PLACE: TOP TEN HOLIDAY GIFTS FOR WRITERS - What keeps your character awake at night? What keeps your READERS awake at night?
Copyblogger Editor Admits to Sleeping with Readers and Recommends You Do the Same | Copyblogger - Need some writing inspiration? Try these exercises from @LauraMarcella.
Wavy Lines: Wednesday's Writing Workout! - On the home-run power of determination.
Buffy's write zone: (Long) quote of the day from me - This is a fabulous post on supporting others and improving our inner journey in the process.
The Writing Journey: Giving Back - What happens to you, the writer, AFTER the book is published?
The Inevitable Identity Crisis That Happens After Publication - Nine tips to help you keep writing.
Enthusiasm--Bring It! - I LOVE this view about rejection. Love the truth and the writing. Love it. Read it!
25 Truths about Rejection - If you write with heart and soul and passion, you will always be a writer.
ON BEING A REAL WRITER - Love the Writer's Clock! Including the adult beverage.
What I want for Christmas - Love this! --> Write your life in great, glorious, intensely specific detail.
How to Find Gratitude through Writing - Seeing the creative process as a board game is eye opening, funny, and all too true.
Margo Berendsen: Creative Process - Board Game Style - YA Authors helping animals. What could be better? Tons of signed books to bid on.
Authors Against Animal Abuse: The Auctions - Love this idea! Make your own Christmas tree and have an excuse to buy more books.
Make a Book Christmas Tree - GalleyCat - Gorgeous, moving piece on stopping to reflect and the value of life.
Scrooge moment - Blatherings 2004 Archive - Illustrator and writer - Fabulous post on remembering the dream, examining the path, and taking control.
The Other Side of the Story: Guest Author Angela Ackerman: Keeping Despair at Bay - ADORE this post about positive attitude. Great for character dialogue and voice too!
How a Shift in Your Vocabulary Can Instantly Change Your Attitude - Are you passionate about what you are writing now? How can you be?
Writer Unboxed » The Writing Cave
Issues, News, and Congratulations
- A heartbreaking loss to the kidlit community!
In Memory: Russell Hoban - What does/can a traditional publisher do for you? One author's story.
Ask an author: Does your Big 6 publisher promote you? Myke Cole answers… - Congrats to @pippinmathur for signing with JoAnna Volpe!
Clients at Nancy Coffey Literary - Can Amazon and the indies co-exists? Happily? Profitably?
Amazon vs. the Indies | Nathan Bransford, Author - Leaked Hatchette doc lists the four roles traditional publishers serve that self-pubing can't replicate.
http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2011/leaked-hachette-explains-why-publishers-are-relevant/ - Thoughtful analysis on the price of ebooks vs. paper by @JamiGold.#writing
How Much Are You Willing to Pay for an Ebook? | Jami Gold, Paranormal Author - Congrats to Laini Taylor! If the movie is half as good as the book, it will be brillliant.
Not Just for Kids: 'Daughter of Smoke and Bone' -- the movie - Congrats to Cassie Clare and CLOCKWORK PRINCE!
Clockwork Prince is on the NYT Best Seller List!! - @elizabethscraig gives us a handy roundup of sites and blogs that cover publishing news.
Easy Ways to Keep Up with Publishing News in 2012 | Mystery Writing is Murder - WOO-HOO Congrats to @LoriMLee who signed with Suzie Townsend of Nancy Coffey!
A Special Annoucement - Authors weigh in legally in the Google Book Settlement litigation.
Authors Guild Files for Class Certification in Google Case - Hot 100 list of people to watch contains 2 bloggers and 1 novelist (Liza Klaussmann). Congrats @GabyDunn @picadorbooks
Red Pages: Hot100 2012 US - Three accounting changes that could benefit both publishers and authors.
Paying authors more might be the best economics for publishers in the long run – The Shatzkin Files - Thinking about getting a Kindle? The good, the bad, and the ugly from @michaelhyatt.
My Take on the Kindle Fire After 30 Days of Use - Ten Tweets that changed countries, lives, opinions, and hearts in 2011.
Top Tweets in 2011 - Brilliant speech by Caroline Kennedy about the importance of libraries and librarians.
Caroline Kennedy to Librarians: "Your work is truly life changing." | At Your Library - Great article about @annastanisz in her hometown paper. Congrats, Anna! Loved this!
Author shares magic in modern day fairy tale | Community Advocate - Write from your pain and fear: If you need to write it, there’s someone out there who needs to read it. LOVE THIS.
How Writing About Terrible Things Makes the Reader a Better Person - Important points about SOPA from @doctorow.
craphound.com - StumbleUpon - @StinaLL on the benefits of joining a writer's association and how to find the right one for you.
Seeing Creative: The Twelve Days of Christmas for Writers: Day Five - Squeee! THANK YOU Bookshelf Muse for naming us your Writing Heroes of December! We <3 you too! MWAH! @AngelaAckerman @BeccaPuglisi
The Bookshelf Muse: Writing Heroes: Adventures In YA and Children's Publishing - Which of these 2012 debut author novels will you add to your TBR? (Clara's answer: ALL OF THEM).
A Blog about Nothing: Debut Author Challenge 2012 - Good info on the post-sale business/money side of writing.
11 Frequently Asked Questions About Book Royalties, Advances and Money - Very good overview of the Amazon/Overdrive/Library/Penguin muddles.
Penguin, Amazon, and the Kindle Lending Library | Blog | Smart Bitches, Trashy Books | Romance Novel Reviews | All of the Romance, None of the Bullshit. - YA is still hot and MG is getting hotter.
Young adult continues to be the literary world's fastest-growing genre - Great idea! Saturday. Bookstore. You and your kid.
Saturday Is 'Take Your Child to a Bookstore' Day - Who knew there was any mystery in pen and ink after 5000 years?
Physics of writing is derived at last - physicsworld.com - The library perspective on e-books: playing with someone else's ball on the playground.
Bookoisseur - Haven't we already established that lending is GOOD for business?
Penguin Restores E-Book Access Amidst Amazon Negotiations - "Choices. For the first time, we authors have them." Barry Eisler's insights on the digital age of publishing.
Writer Unboxed » The Critical Aspects of Digital Publishing - A beautiful tribute to Anne McCaffrey from @wordforteens
WORD for Teens: Why I'll Be Reading A Dragon Book Tonight: A Tribute to Anne McCaffrey - Concerns about security prompt Penguin to halt eBook library lending.
Penguin Stops eBook Library Lending - GalleyCat - Emma Dryden on how the digital marketplace is changing the business of books.
Traveling Through the Digital Landscape (Part 1) - Is going bookless a good idea?
In the 21st-Century University, Let's Ban (Paper) Books - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Education - @iggyandgabi have done it again! Why they love dark YA (and as a writer of dark YA, why I do too).
YA Cafe: Why I Love Dark YA « Iggi and Gabi - Can mixed media bring kids back to reading?
Read Beyond the Lines: Transmedia has changed the very notion of books and reading — The Digital Shift - pro: lots of shiny new words. NaNo con: Quantity over quality.
Justine Dell: The bad side of NaNoWriMo
Self-Publishing, Book Promotion, and Author Marketing
- A bookseller's POV on curating shelf-space and what you can do to make your books more available.
Things I Want Authors to Know « ShelfTalker - Why you should sign books at bookstores and get on radio.
The Truth About Book Publicity - Do readers care who the publisher is, or do they just want to read a good book?
Only a small percentage of authors sell through. What’s the solution? – Laura Pauling - The most dangerous words in publishing used to be sound advice.
Writer Unboxed » The Twelve Most Dangerous Words for Writers - Starting to brand yourself as an author.
Get Your Brand On - Know how to use Facebook to strategically promote yourself and your book?
Publishing Insiders Wrap-Up: Special Guest Amy Porterfield on Facebook Marketing - Ten author marketing options and blogging is low on the list.
Ten Marketing Strategies All Writers Need To Consider | Andrew Jack Writing - What does your name say about you as a writer? About your work?
How do writers choose pen names?
Social Media
- Can You Title Your Blog to the Top? Here are some great tips.
Harry Potter Headlines: 10 Ways to Conjure Up a Viral Blog Post Title - Looking to embed tweets and share your blog posts more easily? Here's a how-to from @GalleyCat.
How To Embed Tweets in Your Blog - Buy three books (and much more), or sell your writing with a Tweet.
Sell Your Writing for a Tweet - It's Twitterific time! Linkage love from @elizabethscraig
Twitterific | Mystery Writing is Murder - @annerallen lists some of the best tips I've ever read on blogging for authors.
Anne R. Allen's Blog: HOW NOT TO BLOG: Beginning Blogging for Authors Part II
To Market
- Great new contest opens 12/16.
Gotcha knickers twisted, yo? - Do readers care who the publisher is, or do they just want to read a good book?
Only a small percentage of authors sell through. What’s the solution? – Laura Pauling - Ignore the industry so you can focus on your amazing book.
Ignoring everything but the writing - Is the novel you are about to query the one you want as your debut novel?
Starting Over (or) How You Know When You're REALLY Ready to Query - Great tip on providing character detail in your query from @DaphneUn.
Ask Daphne! About My Query XCII - Great inspirational and cautionary post on what to do while you wait to hear on subs.
Adventures in Agentland: How to Survive WAITING - FANTASTIC take on the agent rejection response/nonresponse discussion.
Monthly Posts Archives
Other Weekly Round-Ups:
- Cynthia Leitich Smith at Cynsationsdoes a Cynsational author, craft, and book news review.
- Elizabeth Craig posts a comprehensive weekly list of all her helpful Twitter posts.
- Stina Lindenblatt does a fabulous Cool Links Friday post every week.
- YA Highway's Friday Road Trip hits the high points of the publishing industry, writing craft, submissions process, and other fun stuff.
Did we miss anything? Anyone? Please leave a comment!
Happy reading and joyous writing,
Clara and Martina
Awesome giveaway. Congrats on reaching 1500 followers. And thanks for all the links as usual.
ReplyDeleteYou guys are awesome!! No wonder you have so many followers (congrats)!! Off to click!
ReplyDeleteCongrats to 1500 followers. I know you will double that in no time.
ReplyDeleteThis is the best place for information! Thanks for working hard and sharing it all.
WOW! That's a lot of links. Thanks for mentioning me girlfriends. And good luck to everyone. I hope your dreams come true.
ReplyDeleteNatalie, congrats right back to you and Casey! What an amazing site you have over at Literary Rambles. It is a wonderful resource for writers and a true service to the writing community. And most of all -- YOU are a service to the writing community with your unflagging support for all of us. We absolutely LOVE you! Hugs!!!!
ReplyDeleteChristina, Thank you so much! We appreciate the support more than we can say. Hope you enjoy the links. There are a lot of fantastic ones this week!
Halli, Thank you! I don't know about doubling that--1500 seems like an impossible number to us! We're just delightedand astonishished to be where we are, and happy to be able to share the helpful, supportive writers and articles we find with others. :)
Thanks, Buffy! Your post was wonderful -- as always. :)
ReplyDeleteCongrats on all the followers! I'm not surprised - your site is awesome.
ReplyDeleteSo many wonderful links, I''m going to be VERY busy this weekend.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on all the followers, but I'm not surprised. I've loved this blog since I started following you, back when you had less than 300 followers. *hugs*
Holy cow, I missed a bunch of these! Thanks so much for the links, and for the kind mentions. Have a great weekend!
ReplyDeleteAnother superb list of treasureful linkies. Thanks! and for the giveaway opportunity too. Now that's apt Christmas presents for writers--books!
ReplyDelete1500 followers. That's a large number.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much, Nicole! I loved your post today, by the way!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Stina, Julie, and Carol. Can you believe it? You three have been there from the beginning, and we appreciate it so much. It's wonderful to have found peeps like you--it's what's made this whole adventure worthwhile!
CO, glad to have you as a recent follower. It's an astounding number.;)
Have a great weekend, everyone!
Martina
Thank you for the awesome giveaway. I'm happy to add to your blog count and hoping there will be many more :)
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on 1500! :-) I am not surprised though because this blog is so great!
ReplyDeleteAs always, thanks for the awesome links! They're always helpful! Congratulations on so many followers!
ReplyDeleteNa, Eisen, and Jessica, thank you so much! And Na, welcome! Hope you enjoy the blog.
ReplyDeleteMartina
So many great posts! You are all so generous - both with your time in collecting/posting all these links and with your giveaways! :)
ReplyDeleteI just realized you guys linked to me! Thank you so much!!! <3 I'm beyond flattered.
ReplyDeleteCongrats!! Wonderful post :)
ReplyDeleteHi Jemi,
ReplyDeleteThank you! Clara does such a great job both reading posts and keeping me motivated! We are so lucky to have her with us, because even with all of us reading, we feel like we are missing great posts all the time. There are such a huge number of fantastic pieces written every day and we can't get them all.
And Alexandra, we always enjoy your posts! You do such a great job.
Thanks, Vivien!
Have a great weekend, everyone!
Martina
No wonder you have so many followers! Great roundup.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the giveaway! Congrats on all the followers!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Kel and Megan G. Appreciate the congrats and the compliment. Good luck in the giveaway!
ReplyDeleteMartina
Congrats on 1500 followers! :D Thanks for the giveaway :)
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for the fabulous giveaway. Congrats on all the followers!
ReplyDeleteYou all deserve the kudos. :)
ReplyDeleteYou guys deserve each and every follower! I recommend you all the time!!
ReplyDeleteAngela @ Ther Bookshelf Muse
I love this site! I stop by every week to see what I've missed. Thanks so much for compiling this. A great resource!
ReplyDeleteEven if you don't like winning contests (?!) this post is awesome for all the fantastic writerly links. I love this site! Keep up the good work!
ReplyDeleteApril and Jennifer, Thank you and good luck! :)
ReplyDeleteHeathers, Dawn, and Sandi, THANK YOU, we truly appreciate your kindness.
And Ange, what can I say? You ROCK. As always, and anyone who hasn't already discovered The Bookshelf Muse? Hurry up. The fabulous Emotion Thesauraus, Setting Thesaurus, Weather Thesaurus and much more. AND Angela and Becca, who are seriously two of the nicest writers on the planet.
Thanks so much for this Roundup - some great posts here! :)
ReplyDeleteYou're very welcome, Kirsty. Hope you enjoy the links! :)
ReplyDeleteMartina
Another great roundup! Learned much today!
ReplyDeleteGlad you found it helpful, Taffy! Isn't it amazing how much great content writers put out there to help each other?
ReplyDeleteMartina
Nothing short of amazing on another great roundup post. And thank you for the giveaway. you guys rock! Keep 'um coming :)
ReplyDelete-Lisa