WisCon was awesome, as usual!  The Romance in Spec-Fic/YA panel went really well, and even though I made a few missteps in the How to Ally panel, my fellow panelists saved the day ( Read more... )

I am making headway on the new project, but Life has been happening as well--some exciting things for me (depending on how cute they are, you may or may not hear about them ;), and several awesome new books have been read, but it is unfortunately late and I have work in the morning, so: drive-by recs ( Read more... )

Phenomenal.  Go read it ( Read more... )

PART THE FIRST: I have just finished the ARC of a new book coming out on June 25 called Sidekicked, by John David Anderson, and it is awesome.  I love the main character, his voice and his choices, I love the plot, I love the worldbuilding, the way a larger world is hinted at without needing to be on the page all the time, the mystery and the ( Read more... )

Does what it says on the tin.

No spoilers: Orleans, by Sherri L. Smith

First came the storms.
Then came the Fever.
And then the Wall.

A few decades in our future, the Gulf Coast Delta has been quarantined from the Outer States of America for fear of Delta Fever, which struck after a series of devastating hurricanes and which discriminates solely by ( Read more... )

It's no secret that I love superheroes beyond the telling of it.  I'll try anything if there's superheroes attached (well, almost anything.  It's an important caveat!).  So when I saw the shiny cover of a new middle grade book called The Ultra-Violets: The Fuchsia is Now, I may have jumped up and down.  A superhero book aimed at 8-12 girls?  Where ( Read more... )

Three rejections and one full MS request for Skywatch, plus two more NRMN (no response means no) rejections.  I need to spend an afternoon sending out new queries, but I've been focused on some editing for others that I promised and on polishing the outline for Flying Machines (finished through Act Two, just need to get Act Three done ( Read more... )

It turns out that while I am still ace at writing on planes/in airports, car rides with my family and without headphones are not a productive working environment.

One chapter away from hitting the two-thirds point with Trial, and crossing my fingers that life is kind and gives me time to actually finish the damn rough.  I don't want time to edit it ( Read more... )

Got another chapter in--shortest one yet, under 1k, yay!

I'm celebrating because the chapter before this, which was a bitch to write, ended up almost 1800 words, which is 300 over my self-imposed max word count for a chapter for this book.  I may have to add the last scene from that chapter to the one I just finished, which would even out the word ( Read more... )

I love superheroes.   Just, so much.  Even with everything that's done badly in the genre, I love them, they make me happy, and when they're done right--

--well, nothing makes a crappy day better than new superheroes.  But I've been broken up with DC since the reboot (I am NEVER getting over what they did to Oracle), and the new Batman movie was ( Read more... )