OK, yours are way better than mine. I loved hearing back from so many of you about your secret heart’s desires! One thing about secret heart’s desires, though (besides the fact that they’re supposed to be a secret. So no one has to know that you to want to be, oh, I don’t know, a Read more »
Did I have an amazing time in California at the LA Times Festival of Books? Why yes, I did . . . . . . until the tacos I had the other night came back up in the airport security line yesterday morning at LAX. I had them at a really fancy restaurant so I Read more »
A while ago I started hearing all this buzz about this book, Fat Cat by Robin Brande. Full of romance and comedy and cool science….OK, I’ll bite. But then I heard that it also involved a heroine’s experience being “the fat girl” as well as her experience trying to get healthy. That’s when I REALLY Read more »
This past week He Who Shall Not Be Named In This Blog has been passing a bunch of kidney stones. He already has a broken ankle. So, living with him has been a little bit like living with one of those monkeys at the zoo. You know, the ones who look all cute and cuddly Read more »
Remember how the Wonder Twins (helpers to the Super Friends) would get together and save people? Well, it seems like whenever my brother and I get together, instead of saving people, we make people fall down. And break something. Take the last time my brother and I got together at my house: My grandma fell Read more »
I just got home from Birmingham, Alabama, where I got to speak at a luncheon in front of a BIG audience of Books-A-Million sales managers and buyers (hi, guys)! A lot of people think being a writer is just sitting around writing books, then jetting off to sign those books for fans, and then getting Read more »
So a few months ago, my mom is talking to me on the phone about, oh, I don’t know, her boyfriend, aka my former teacher, or whatever, when suddenly she goes, “Oh, remember that time the doctor had to pull your ovary out of your bellybutton?”
Yes! I’ve got deadlines! I know, I know, who doesn’t? At least, all my writer friends do. We’ve been burning up the Internet, going: “How many words do you have left? What chapter are you on? Do you think I can get away with a fifty page flashback? What about a two hundred page flashback? Read more »
It’s that weekend! Officially the first weekend of summer, the one where you go into your closet to get last year’s shorts, pull them on, and…they don’t fit. Or if they do, you look in the mirror and freak out because: a) you’re so pale you look like Edward Cullen (and not in a good Read more »
Do you love books? Of course you do! Then you should know about this online book auction for a young YA author/teen librarian who has cancer. I’ve bid on a book (one of my faves, Catherine Called Birdy by Karen Cushman).… Stop by and check the auction out! You might find some of your favorite Read more »