Pictures and Reflections

Here’s how it looks outside the windows today… I left the endless rain of Northern California and came home to the snow of Eastern Massachusetts :o). Weather is so good for writing. I wrote two and a half pages this morning while curled up in blankets and watching the snow fall. (I consider two pages… Read more »

My Mother Made Me a Hat

So, the movers are coming tomorrow, and though I’m surrounded by exquisite disarray, I feel this is the moment to blog pictures (taken by Kevin) of a very special (perhaps even magical) hat. Because now is the time to celebrate beautiful things. :o) My regular readers know that I knit. Well, my mother knits on… Read more »

A Gallery of My Favorite Objects (And Other Nonsense)

My Finnish translator, Maria Lyytinen, has one gray eye and one brown eye. She’s a Graceling! Kiitos for translating my book, Maria — I can’t imagine anyone more appropriate! :o) The Simmons Summer Institute is this weekend; I speak Friday, which I’m very grateful for, because it means I’ll be able to enjoy Saturday and… Read more »

Still Not Quite Moved In

I’m taking a moment away from the boxy madness to point out the profile Publishers Weekly did of Fire this week. The online version is here. The focus of the piece is something that’s close to my heart — the wonderful way that Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Graceling‘s publisher) and Penguin (Fire‘s publisher) are working together… Read more »

Haves

I have furniture. I have the Internet. I have food in my fridge, sheets on my bed, and clothes — well, I have clothes all over the place. I have the Rockies in the office, the Alps in the kitchen, the Andes in the bedroom, and the Himalayas in the living room (when it comes… Read more »