If ever there was a day I needed a pick-me-up, it's today. Between recent YA kerfluffles and the horrors in Paris, I think we could all use a smile so I grabbed one of my personal favorites from my archives marked "EMERGENCY: BREAK LINK FOR MUCH-NEEDED SMILES" and, once I vacuumed up the shatterglass, was able to access a fun guide to the "Language ( Read more... )

I love ice cream. Every book launch I've done has had an "ice cream social" event whereupon I can share my love of ice cream concoctions with friends, family and perfect strangers while celebrating my latest book release.


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Duh!

This recent piece of brilliance has been flooding the writerly corner of the Internet with intergalactic speed and it's no surprise why: it's *amazing* in the way only Weird Al can be! Our family has been a huge fan of his since the Dr. Demento Show (dating ourselves much?) and have seen him perform live twice; both times struck with what an ( Read more... )

Okay, I know I've already hyperventilated about this everywhere, but I'd be remiss not to include my most anticipated movie to date as my Fun Film Friday: Lessons Learned by Tody Froud!


Lessons Learned Trailer from Toby Froud on Vimeo.
My childhood, like many, was shaped by the Muppets and Fraggles and other magic spun by Jim Henson and it was my ( Read more... )

My first book, LUMINOUS, featured a Latina superheroine based on Dia de los Muertos, the Day of the Dead. (Full story starts here.) It wasn't intentional--I didn't start out thinking "I'm going to write a Latina book with a strong female protagonist and a diverse cast" because, honestly, when does THAT ever work? I can only blame the synthesis on ( Read more... )

It's been a while since I squeed about steampunk art, but when I saw these iron sculptures from John Lopez Studio, I knew that I just had to share! It felt sort of like exploring an artistic nod to Firefly in another alt-universe.

(And you know how much I *adore* Firefly!)


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I'm a HUGE fan of stop-animation as well as LEGOs and while I know the latest movie has made a boom in the YouTube fandoms, I been enjoying the best of Brotherhood Workshop, which stood out from all the rest ( Read more... )

I am back from BEA and have enough energy to give a visual recap, which, in the end, looks something like this:


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I am deep in the Editing Cave but sometimes I give myself tiny rewards along the way to keep me going and make me smile because, honestly, this stuff is exhausting!

Here's one of my personal go-to faves that also gives me my earworm for the day: the Potter Puppet Pals classic: Wizard Angst!

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Works every time! :-D Remember to smile this weekend!

I think the bravest thing a writer can do is write the damned book ( Read more... )