A Few of My Favorite Things (In No Particular Order)

  • Over-the-knee socks.
  • This comment from Cordelia after she saw the stuffed chicken Mom was roasting for Christmas: “Yeah, I hope that when I die, someone sticks an onion up my ass.”
  • Three-year-old cousins-once-removed who want to sit in your lap.
  • Soft, silky cats who let you rub their ginger-brown tummies.
  • This sign, spotted at a coffee shop in New Jersey: “Fat snowmen last longer.”
  • My luggage tags, which say “I’m going around in circles” and “I’m a mess on the inside.”
  • The fact that my fellow writers and email buddies Donna Freitas and Marie Rutkoski are Publisher’s Weekly‘s “Fall Flying Starts” along with me.
  • Naps on airplanes.
  • Time with family AND quiet time alone after time with family.
  • Something I have been too shy to say before: Graceling is a Fantasy/SF bestseller in Australia. :o)