I am so excited about this I can barely take it. The Brooklyn Book Festival is coming in just a little over a week, and this year I get to play with the big kids. I’ll be part of a… Continue Reading
HELP. Help me out, people. Here’s the challenge: picture a cute little alien sock puppet. Give it a name. Not sure yet if this sock puppet is going to look more like a girl sock or a boy sock, so… Continue Reading
A week ago I had the coolest thing ever happen. I was on the way home, ending what had already been a fairly amazing week (see my previous post). Nathan and I were sitting in traffic with my parents on… Continue Reading
After a lovely week sequestered in Bucks County with the always-entertaining Paisley Stocking Society, it’s time to leap into a busy week of Doing Writerly Stuff. Want to join me? Here’s where I’ll be: Wednesday, July 21st Ray Bradbury in… Continue Reading
It’s been something over a hundred degrees outside for most of the month, and far, far too hot to think. I’ve been revising (or, given the inversely proportional relationship in my world between rising temperatures and intellectual capability, let’s say… Continue Reading
I get to hang out at one of my favorite bookstores this Saturday in an author-like fashion! First things first, because otherwise this update will get buried in the post below, but this Saturday, 6/12, I’ll be visiting Books of… Continue Reading
Updates! I gots ’em! This Wednesday, I’ll be signing at Pandemonium Books in Cambridge, Mass with Leah Cypess, author of Mistwood. I just finished Mistwood yesterday, by the way, and it’s absolutely wonderful. I’ll do a Subway Literature post on… Continue Reading
Never mind that the book’s been in stores for a couple of weeks and I appear to have lost my countdown widget–it’s Release Day! Oboyoboyoboyoboy!! This weekend was great. Friday The Boneshaker was reviewed by Cory Doctorow on BoingBoing, which… Continue Reading
Two days remain until this year’s Nebula Awards Banquet, and it’s time for the final installment of the Informed Voter Project covering the finalists in the novel category. I had read four of the six books before I decided to… Continue Reading
When last I posted in this series it was a little over a month ago, the day before the voting deadline for the Nebula, Bradbury and Andre Norton awards. At the time I still had the two full-length novel categories… Continue Reading