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Last summer, when I was struggling quite desperately to complete Fire (a writing lesson learned the hard way: think hard about the lives of your main characters before committing yourself to living inside their heads for two years. If their lives are sad/scary/strange? You’re in for a rough two years), I asked a couple friends… Read more »

Yeah, whatever, Yoda. If you can show me the use of trying to control anything in my life now that I’m getting a book published, I’ll knit you a little hat with two ear holes to keep your fuzzy little head warm on cold nights in Dagobah. You know that feeling of being out of… Read more »

I just spent two weeks writing a new first chapter for Fire, the prequel to Graceling. It was an agonizing process, one of the hardest bits of writing I’ve ever done. Today I gave it to my sister (always my first reader) for feedback. Here’s what she said after reading: “It’s not bad.” Yeah. So,… Read more »

This site is a work in progress. You’re certainly welcome to read the posts I wrote prior to this one, but what you’ll find is that these are the posts meant to link up with the “quick links” on the side. Some of them are incomplete. Others, you may have linked to already. Continue at… Read more »

The following is my acceptance of the Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award for Fire. I presented these remarks on November 22, 2010 at NCTE-ALAN’s annual conference in Orlando, Florida. ****** One thing I’ve learned from this experience is that it isn’t just that I get to have the joy and pride of winning this award—I also… Read more »

Well, it’s like this. I want this blog to also serve the function of my author website, with clear links at the side that connect to my bio, a page about my books, a page with contacts, etc; and to create links to those pages, I have to create those pages as posts. So as… Read more »