New Interview at The Day Job

Thanks, Erin, for the interview.  It was interesting and fun to do.  See the full thing here at The Day Job: A Writer’s Inquiry.

The Paperback Edition of Serendipity Market!

The paper edition of Serendipity Market will be coming out at the same time as Blood and Flowers — March 1, 2011 — and it will have some nifty extras in the back.  Here’s the cover: SerenMark PB cvr des5-1 Just click — it’s big! Also, I’ve had some requests from Brazil to review Blood and [...]

Jacket Cover of Blood and Flowers

Finally!  Here’s the jacket for the new book, due out March 1st, 2011.  It’s gorgeous, it’s wonderful!  I have to figure out how to make a button out of this. And Book Smugglers said the cover was “freaky-but-beautiful”.    Nice!

Serendipity Market is one of the Best Kids’ Books of 2010

Serendipity Market is linked off Oprah.com I’m so excited!  Only nine books in the ages 12 and up category and this is one of them!

Blood and Flowers update

I now have the first typeset copy of Blood and Flowers.  It’s gorgeous, and I just finished going through it last night, making minor corrections.  I hadn’t looked at it for a bit and was very pleased with how it reads.  Hope to be able to post the cover soon!

Illinois Young Authors Conference

The Illinois Young Authors Conference was last weekend (May 14 and 15) in Normal, Illinois on the Illinois State University campus.  I got to talk with about 75 8th graders about writing and publishing.  I was on an open panel with Kat Falls (author of Dark Life) and we played with some amazing and interesting [...]

Shark vs Train

Okay, if you haven’t run right out to buy your copy of Shark vs Train by Chris Barton you’re really missing something. This book is brilliant and the illustrations are great. Chris also wrote the very highly acclaimed Day-Glo Brothers which has been just pulling in the awards. He’s also represented by my wonderful agent, [...]

Blood and Flowers

The new book is very definitely titled Blood and Flowers and (this is so cool) my editor just tweeted that it was one of the Winter list books that she loves!  It looks like it may be out around March 2011, and since we just went through a round of copyedits that’s probably about right. [...]

Macmillan and Amazon

Last Friday Amazon.com removed all buy buttons from books published by Macmillan.com because Macmillan wanted to control its own e-books.  Read a much better post than I could ever do about the kerfuffle at Scott Westerfeld’s blog. This is a big deal because as we all know Amazon is pretty much the biggest bookseller anywhere [...]

Earth Hour is Coming!

Yes, it’s time again for Earth Hour (or almost time!).  March 27th at 8:30 p.m. wherever you are.  Play along — it’s fun to see the neighborhood go dark!