Greetings, fellow Earthlings (and anyone else who might be reading ^_^). You know, it’s occurred to me recently that one of the reasons my blogging has dropped off is because of my general ambivalence about social media in recent years. I’m meant to be a blogger, not a Tweeter or an Instagrammer, not a TikTokker,… Read more »
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Costumes!
The news is relentlessly bad, triggery, and heartbreaking. I go back and forth about these blog posts, because I don’t want to seem frivolous when so much bad stuff is going on. But — I want to celebrate our creativity, and I also want to express gratitude for our friends who’ve made a recent four… Read more »
Some Jane Stuff and My 41st Birthday!
I haven’t been great about sharing nice news about Jane, Unlimited in the world, because life has been busy, and also because… well… I would generally rather talk about anything other than my own books! Ha! Also because I keep forgetting which things are public and which haven’t been officially announced yet, so then I… Read more »
Announcing My New Book: Jane, Unlimited
I have a new book coming out in Fall 2017, and I’m finally allowed to talk about it. :o) It’s called Jane, Unlimited. I won’t say a lot for now—more will be forthcoming—but for today… Jane has led a small and mostly ordinary life, raised by her aunt Magnolia—an adjunct professor at a small college… Read more »
Sleep, Pretty Darling, Do Not Cry… and Other Thursday Randutiae
Happy Pan-Universal Be Who You Are Day! Someone who uses voice recognition software and draws should start a VRS comic strip. The objects that appear suddenly in my scenes because my VRS has misunderstood me are visually amusing. I just dictated the line, “‘I will,’ she said with a sob,” and my VRS typed, “‘I… Read more »
Hard Things
Writing is really, really hard right now. I am in a vortex of doubt and I am clinging to a mustard seed. Writers out there, don’t let go of that mustard seed; don’t let go of that teeny, tiny shred of faith. I know what you’re going through. I know how hard it is, and… Read more »
Happy-Making Stuff and Things
Well, I generally keep news behind my News link, but sometimes it deserves noisier mention. When I learned yesterday that Fire won the 2009 Cybil for YA Fantasy and Science Fiction, I was surprised, proud, and downright teary! It surely does feel nice. (In case you don’t know, the Cybils are the Children’s and Young… Read more »
Rethinking the Blog
So, the blog posts I like to write are the ones that don’t have anything to do with news. They’re the posts about random thoughts, the poetry or poll posts, the posts in which I answer FAQs or talk about writing and life. They are NOT the posts in which I say, guys, here’s what’s… Read more »
News
In Norway, my books will be published by Cappelen Damm. (6/3/13) Bitterblue is a number one bestseller in Sweden! Thank you, dear Swedish readers, and thank you to the wonderful people at Semic! (5/22/13) Bitterblue is being honored by the Boston Authors Club, along with a number of other great books. Thank you, Boston Authors… Read more »
