My Dragon*Con Schedule

Over Labor Day, I will be pre­sent­ing a Dragon*Con in Atlanta, doing pan­els, a read­ing, and an auto­graph ses­sion. I will have a few ARCs of INVISIBLE SUN on hand, along with book­marks and other swag. Come say hi! Sched­ule: Title: Clas­sic YA Descrip­tion: What were your favorite books grow­ing up? We’ll dis­cuss ours, like Anne of Green …

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August 6, 2011 – 2:02 am | Posted in Blog, Events | Comments Off

NASA Spacecraft Data Suggest Water Flowing on Mars

PASADENA, Calif. — Obser­va­tions from NASA’s Mars Recon­nais­sance Orbiter have revealed pos­si­ble flow­ing water dur­ing the warmest months on Mars. “NASA’s Mars Explo­ration Pro­gram keeps bring­ing us closer to deter­min­ing whether the Red Planet could har­bor life in some form,” NASA Admin­is­tra­tor Charles Bolden said, “and it reaf­firms Mars as an impor­tant future des­ti­na­tion for human …

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August 5, 2011 – 2:44 am | Posted in Blog, Mars News | Tagged , | Comments Off

ARCs of Invisible Sun Have Arrived!

Did I say ARCs? Make that ARC, sin­gu­lar, as in one. It arrived in the mail today with a nice note from its edi­tor. Though it hasn’t even been opened yet, I have great plans…to give it away. As soon as Goodreads approves it, I’ll post the URL so that every­one can enter to win. …

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August 2, 2011 – 1:02 am | Posted in Blog, Slider | Comments (2)

Slightly off-topic on a Monday …

Slightly off-topic on a Monday …

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July 18, 2011 – 12:52 pm | Posted in Blog | Comments Off

The Landlord in Soul Enchilada

Lots of hits have been com­ing in from Google with the phrase “land­lord in Soul Enchi­lada” or some­thing sim­i­lar. This, of course, has piqued my curios­ity, so if you’ve vis­ited my site (or are cur­rently here via such a search in Google), please leave a com­ment to let me know what brought you.

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July 13, 2011 – 1:20 am | Posted in Blog | Tagged , , | Comments Off

54 Days til DragonCon!

I’m count­ing down the days until Dragon*con, where I will be a guest author, pri­mar­ily in the YA track. Details about appear­ances and pan­els will be posted here as soon as I have them. No word yet on signing/readings, either. Hope to see you there!

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July 9, 2011 – 4:46 pm | Posted in Blog, Events | Tagged , , | Comments Off

YA Super Panel on EC NING

Please join YA authors Jo Knowles, Kate Mess­ner, and me for a very spe­cial webi­nar about using YA lit­er­a­ture and the clas­sics, aka the “2011 ECN Sum­mer Web­sti­tute: Read­ing Clas­sic and Young Adult Lit­er­a­ture with Stu­dents,” on Mon­day, July 11 5–6 p.m. EST For more info: http://englishcompanion.ning.com/group/2011ecnsummerwebstitutereadingclassicandyoungadult

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July 9, 2011 – 4:22 pm | Posted in Blog, Events | Comments Off