Archive for June, 2009

THE BONESHAKER: the forthcoming YA previously known as GINGERFOOT

It’s official: the forthcoming YA fantasy previously known as GINGERFOOT has undergone a title change. Next spring, the book you will all want to run right out and buy five copies of will be called THE BONESHAKER. In honor of the title change, may I remind you what the book is about and why you’re [...]

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

Subway Literature: Shaun Tan’s Tales from Outer Suburbia

This book is going on my special bookcase, the one that used to be a pie-cooling cupboard and has chickenwire screens in front of each shelf. Only my very favorites go in the pie cupboard. Fortunately Tales from Outer Suburbia is very narrow, because there’s not much space left in there. If I can manage [...]

Saturday, June 13th, 2009

Gingerfoot, the edits…sigh…

It’s day four, and it’s 3:27. I really should be done by now. Granted, there’s been plenty of procrastination going on; I’ve updated the entire NBTC website at nagspeake.com; all that’s left to do is add the photography back in. I’ve updated my notes at The Expat. I spent yesterday evening following Annabelle Bechamel’s Twitter [...]

Monday, June 8th, 2009