Monthly Archives: May 2009

Been Awhile

I was shocked! shocked! when I real­ize three weeks have passed since the last post. What’ve I been doing? It would be great to say that it was a ter­rific new project that I kept under wraps. Sadly, I’ve only been work­ing through a revi­sion (it’s done and is mar­i­nat­ing before it goes out) and

November 18–21, 2010: NCTE/ALAN

Novem­ber 18–21, 2010: NCTE/ALAN Work­shop (Orlando) Times: TBA Activ­ity: Sign­ing BLACK HOLE SUN in the Harper­Collins booth and speak­ing on a panel at ALAN Work­shop with Jo Knowles, Kerry Mad­den, and Chris Crowe.

Boys & Girls Club Brilliance

Ever had the odd expe­ri­ence of *know­ing* you’ve made a post, but when you look back, it’s not there? That’s the case with my post last week chron­i­cling the sec­ond day of the Won­der­Twins Mini-Tour. Although I wrote the post, some­how my blog­ging client soft­ware didn’t fol­low my com­mand to post it. What good is

Five for Friday

Reviews and inter­views, plus a hunt for lug­gage: 1. Alethea Kon­tis inter­views me for Ingram Book Com­pany 2. Jia on the Dear Author blog says nice things about Soul Enchi­lada. 3. The Bul­letin of the Cen­ter for Children’s Books says this: “Bug finds that she is a key tool in Beals’ plan to over­throw Lucifer