Teri Lesesne has included Soul Enchilada in her Texas Library Association presentation, “Best New YA Books.” It’s, erm, slide #55. But who’s counting? You’ll want to see the whole list.
Speaking of TLA–a big howdy to everybody who’s lucky to be attending. One of my Greenwillow authormates, Jody Feldman, will be signing in the HarperCollins booth. [...]
Announcing FreeBookStimulusPlan.com
Wanda Jewell has a problem. After serving nearly 20 years as Executive Director of the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA) she is overrun with books. All kind of books; finished copies and galleys, advance reading copies, advance reader editions, paperback and hardbound, slip-covered and not, limited editions, signed and unsigned, personalized [...]
Greenwillow Books has released a Soul Enchilada reading group guide that is perfect for classroom discussion, small reading groups, and library literature circles, as well as book clubs. I think Soul would make a terrific read for Mother-Daughter book clubs.
This is one of my favorite questions: “Bug says in chapter 6 that “poor folks get [...]
Join Us for the Launch of Soul Enchilada
Interested checking out the buzz around Soul Enchilada, the novel that Kirkus, Horn Book, PW, and Booklist have raved about?* Look Inside now:
*Sorry for the self-congratulatory post, but everyone keeps telling me that I cant be self-effacing about the book, just myself.
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This weekend, I’m attending Flycon 2009, which is an international, round-the-clock sf/f convention, complete with panels, a dealers’ room, and all that good stuff that happens at cons.
Friday at noon, which is Eastern time, I will serve on the panel, "When is Young Adult not really for Young Adults? Panel: sex and violence are [...]
Fresh from the Twitter Feed are the winners of the 2009 Hugo Award winners, as voted on by the members of the SFWA, presented at WorldCon:
Best Novel: The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman
Best Novella: “The Erdmann Nexus”, Nancy Kress
Best Novelette: “Shoggoths in Bloom”, Elizabeth Bear
Best Short Story: “Exhalation”, Ted Chiang
Best Professional Artist: Donato Giancola
Best Graphic Story: [...]
Once upon a time, and for a very long time, I kept note cards around. When I got those sudden bolts of inspiration we all get, I would grab a note card and hastily jot down the new idea for a story, a character, a line of dialogue, etc. Then, being perpetually and grotesquely unorganized, [...]
