Countdown to BOOK 6: MOON RISING . . .

Hi everyone! So . . . how was YOUR November?  🙂  Because mine was crazy in ALL THE WAYS!  Crazy awesome, crazy busy, crazy thrilling, crazy stressful, crazy in love with all of you FanWings who came out to the events on my tour.  Thank you thank you!  It was so much fun to meet you all!  I hope we . . .

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About Forty Million Exciting Things

Hello all! As usual, I have bazillions of things to blog about and zero time (eeeeeek we leave for California in LESS THAN A WEEK!  And I have a manuscript due IMMEDIATELY!), so, just a bunch of quick highlights: First, HOORAY for Spirit Animals making the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists!  I found out while I was on tour . . .

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Books and Me, Out in the World!

Hi everyone! I feel like I have a MILLION things to blog about and no time, because I should also be packing and working on my school presentations and making lists of what’s OK to give my kids for lunch while I’m gone and figuring out what to read at bookstores and taking books back to the library and… Well, . . .

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What Secrets Are Hidden in the Marvelous COVER OF BOOK 6?

Hello wonderful readers! I cannot believe I’m going to be out on tour in just over a week.  Flying on airplanes!  Talking at schools!  Dressing nicely EVERY day (oh my GOODNESS the hardship!)!  But best of all, meeting you guys!  SUPER CRAZY EXCITING! I’m still adding whatever I know is happening to my Events page, and I’ll hopefully post another . . .

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Coming Soon to a Bookstore Near You!

Hello lovely readers! What is coming soon to a bookstore near you, you ask? Well, first of all, Spirit Animals Book Five: Against the Tide — in just three more weeks! Eeee, I’m so excited for you all to read it! And what else? Possibly ME!  I’m going to be talking about books in places other than Boston!  Very soon!  Like, October and . . .

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Ten Things You Might Like To Know About WINGS OF FIRE BOOK 6!!!

Hello wonderful readers! I have FINISHED BOOK 6!!!!!  It is off to copyediting!  Now it is all in Scholastic’s talons to decide when YOU get it.  🙂 I’ve now moved on to a different crazy-making intense writing extravaganza, but I figured I’d take a quick break from that to come tell you a few things about book 6, as I . . .

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Diverse Books and an Awesome Cover

Hello lovely everyone! I hope you all know about the #WeNeedDiverseBooks campaign that’s been happening online the last few days.  Click on that link to read all about it — I think it’s such a wonderful, uplifting, exciting idea! (It almost makes me want to join Twitter so I can be part of all the tweeting about it, except I know that . . .

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Magic! Dragons! Authors! In NYC This Saturday! Join Us!

Hello hello lovely people! I’m coming to New York City for a book event!  VERY SOON!  Like, Saturday!  THIS Saturday!  May 3rd!  Eeeeek! It’s at Books of Wonder (you know how much I adore this bookstore), on Saturday May 3 from noon to 2pm.  I’ll be appearing with two other authors:  Sarwat Chadda, who wrote The Savage Fortress and its new sequel The City of . . .

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Dragons Dragons Everywhere

Hello all! Mark your calendars!  Two exciting events coming up! First: this SUNDAY, March 23, at 4pm, my wonderful sister Kari will be appearing at Oblong Books in Rhinebeck, NY along with Aaron Starmer — I’m sorry I can’t be there, too, but please go see her (and tell her I said hi!) and get her to sign your copy of Menagerie 2: Dragon . . .

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You Are All the Shiniest and the Best

Oh my goodness, I love you all so much!  This contest was so much fun on my end, because I really love hearing about great books I haven’t read yet — now I can’t wait to get to the library and check them all out! But it was also torture, because you guys are all SO awesome that I wish . . .

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