Hello everyone! I am very excited to let you all know that I’ll be back at Books of Wonder in New York City for an author event THIS SATURDAY!! May 25!! From 12-2pm! Mark your calendars and please come! I’ll be talking with several other awesome middle grade adventure authors, including my sparkling and talented sister. 🙂 Hooray! So come . . .
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Hi everyone! Did I mention that somebody wonderful just turned one? 🙂 This guy! Can you believe it? One! Walking and talking and snuggly and hilarious! Aw, I love this spectacular little person. I love his laugh, his fabulous bald head, the way he says “ball” and “balloon” and “bird.” I love the sign he makes for “help!” and the . . .
Read MoreHello lovely readers! I figure I better squeeze in an April post here before the month completely vanishes. How did that happen? Let’s see: revisions, April school vacation, visiting relatives, and a particularly wonderful baby’s first birthday (awww). 🙂 Oh, and of course, the fair amount of total craziness happening right in our neighborhood recently. I won’t go into details . . .
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Hello hello hello! Look at this BEAUTIFUL BOOK! Isn’t it glorious? Don’t you want it, even without knowing anything about it? 😉 Well, you’re in luck, because it’s coming out TODAY! March 12! Happy book birthday to The Menagerie! Hooray! Everyone stampede over to your nearest bookstore and buy it! (Or, of course, you can do that here, here, or . . .
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Hello everyone! I have so so many things to blog about, but I am trying to finish a manuscript (writing like the wind! in that the wind is shockingly unproductive, keeps falling asleep, and is easily distracted by loud tiny people — so basically just like your average sleep-deprived mother-of-a-newborn-and-a-toddler wind!), SO hopefully there will be more proper blogging soon, . . .
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Hi everyone! All right, my mom is threatening to come hijack my blog if I don’t post about this, so HELLO! Here I am! And guess what? Wings of Fire Book Two: The Lost Heir is AVAILABLE NOW!!! Buy it there or here or here or at your local bookstore! My own copies arrived recently and it is SO BEAUTIFUL. You guys . . .
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Hello lovely people! I know, I know, where is my book list for the year? There must be at least two people clamoring for it, and I’ve already missed Hanukkah, and now there’s only, like, a day to shop for Christmas! Ack! I’m sorry! But what better place to do that shopping than your local bookstore, right? 🙂 And what . . .
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Hi everyone! I just turned in a manuscript last week, so I have to admit I’ve been a little behind on some important things, such as cleaning the house and giving my DVR the respect and attention it deserves (my goodness, it got so mad at me! I had like two hours of space left! I could practically hear it . . .
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You wouldn’t want to disappoint this monkey, would you? 🙂 How about this Robin Hood? He has some pretty strong feelings about tax breaks for billionaires, as you can probably imagine. Or perhaps he’s concerned about future policies regarding women’s health issues, gay rights, climate change, disaster relief and FEMA, early childhood education, PBS, Sesame Street, and not strapping dogs . . .
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A million thank-yous to wonderful Books of Wonder for the super-fun author event they had for several of us two weeks ago. Behold! Thrilling books in the window! And… Thrilling books right inside the door! And what’s over here?… Thrilling books we wrote before! Look at all those Pet Troubles, awww. I love bookstores. And as it happens, Books of . . .
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