Hello favorite readers! I know, I know — where have I BEEN? Why have I FORSAKEN you? Did Peril EAT me? How is it SEPTEMBER ALREADY? (Answers: In my office or the pool! I swear I haven’t! Basically yes! and I KNOW!) Let’s see, what have I actually been doing for the last three months . . . June: I . . .
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Hello lovely readers! It’s JUNE already! How did that HAPPEN?? My children will be out of school in a week and a half! And then I have to entertain them all summer! ACK! Which means I’d better finish this manuscript tout suite…which means I really shouldn’t be blogging, but I have exciting things to tell you about! First of all, . . .
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Hi everyone! Have you ever wished you could tell an author what to write about? (Specifically me?) Have you ever wished you could choose which character would get their own story? (Specifically certain dragons?!) The time is now! The day is here! (And if you now have Valjean and Eponine in your head for the rest of the day, you’re . . .
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Hello wonderful readers! We’ve added another event for this weekend! So if you can’t make it to one, please come to the other! Here are all the details: WORLDS OF MAGIC: Authors Sage Blackwood, Tui T. Sutherland, and Christine Taylor-Butler will be reading, signing, and answering questions about their new fantasy books. Come hear about sentient magical forests, telepathic . . .
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Hi everyone! March is turning out to be rather an exciting month . . .let’s cover it chronologically, so I’ll hopefully remember everything! First of all, I’m doing a bookstore event THIS WEEKEND, like, the day after tomorrow! Eeeep! Sorry for the short notice — but I hope some of you can come anyway! I’ll be at Porter Square Books . . .
Read MoreHi everyone! My goodness, universe, when I said “winter is coming,” I didn’t mean “BRING ON THE SNOW!” I’ve FINISHED book seven (at last! yippee!), so I don’t need to experience the Ice Kingdom anymore. All set, thank you! You can take your snorkton of blizzards back now! It’s really quite amazing outside my house at the moment. Historic snow . . .
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Happy New Year, everyone! I am excited for 2015 — are you? Our resolution is to organize our house (tiny hooligans will not thwart us!), and I am super-thrilled about all the Wings of Fire action coming up this year . . . including BOOK 7: Winter Turning!!!!!: Isn’t Winter the IceWing just glorious? You can see why Kinkajou instantly . . .
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Hello all! MOON RISING comes out TOMORROW! And to celebrate, Scholastic has updated the Wings of Fire website to make it super shiny and beautiful — plus, now it has spectacular Wings of Fire forums! I posted over there a few days ago . . . come chat with me and the other FanWings! (Watch out for Moon Rising spoilers, . . .
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Hello all! Well, I promised to post my favorite books of the year before Hanukkah . . . hmm, how about on Hanukkah instead? You still need gift ideas for the rest of the days, right? 🙂 It turns out I read a lot of books this year (134 so far), and quite loved a lot of them, which means it’s . . .
Read MoreHi all! As promised, I’ve posted the excerpt from Moon Rising that I read on tour — you can find it on the new Wings of Fire Book 6 page I made today (where you can also find a link to the entire Jade Mountain Prophecy), or here. 🙂 Yay! Only 25 more days until you can read the rest! 🙂 More soon!
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