Will Talk About Dragons for Food

Hello there!

So one of the things I was off doing for the last few weeks was visiting my lovely editor at Scholastic and meeting a whole bunch of amazing wonderful sales & publicity folks at their summer 2012 sales conference, where I was invited for both (a) lunch and (b) delivering a presentation.  (Note that they led with the lunch and then were like “oh, and p.s. PRESENTATION GO!”, which is an excellent way to get me to do anything, because As If I would ever say no to lunch.)  😉

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Stopping by a Blog on a Rainy Early Morning

Writing like a madwoman!  A madwoman on a deadline!  So I’m just zipping by to share three tremendously important things:

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What’s Your Villain’s Childhood Trauma?

Hi everyone!

I’m back in Deadline Mode, so today I thought I’d give you a snappy writing tip disguised as an observation about The Count of Monte Cristo, followed by a link to cute babies (not mine this time), and then I can go back to work.  Excited?  Ooooo?  🙂

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Sisterhood of the Publishing Pants

Hello lovely readers!

You are all inexpressibly wonderful; thank you so much for voting in last week’s poll!  (And if you haven’t yet, you still can—vote anytime!)  I am entirely fascinated by the results.  Especially the fact that the biggest winner was “behind-the-scenes info about my books”…wow, really?  I can definitely rustle up some of that; I had no idea people might be so interested.  🙂

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