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 »
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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 »
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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 »
