A quick and insufficient note letting you know that I'll be one of the Guests of Honor at next year's Sirens Conference!  Oct. 2013, in Stevenson, Washington (Columbia River Gorge, at Skamania Lodge!).  We went to one 2 years ago, and loved it.  More on this later, but here's the Golden Key:

past Sirens registrants and their friends are welcome to ( Read more... )

Hollins University offers co-ed Summmer M.A. and M.F.A. programs in the study and writing of children’s and young adult literature.  Students attend classes each summer for 3-5 summers, until all their coursework is done.

Where: Roanoke, VA

When: This summer's semester runs June 17th - July 26th.  Ellen & Delia will both be instructors this year.   ( Read more... )

Time to update this, isn't it? Especially since I've got an event this weekend:

Brooklyn Book Festival
Sunday, September 23, 1 pm
Brooklyn Borough Hall and Plaza
Brooklyn, NY

Make Believe: Genre Comics for the Next Generation
I'm moderating a panel discussion with Derek Kirk Kim (Tune: Vanishing Point), Becky Cloonan (Dracula), and Mark Siegel (Sailor ( Read more... )

So pleased to be heading back to WisCon this year - we missed the last two, which seems so wrong, since WisCon's been one of the highlights of my year for, well, quite a long time.  Hope to see many friends there!

Here are the panels/parties/readings I'm assigned to - but feel free to stop me in the hallway any time for a chat (or even to sign a ( Read more... )

That's where I've been for at least part of this post-less time: working out details with my fabulous wonderful producer/director Sue Zizza, who created The Witches of Lublin with us last year, and is a renowned audio drama director and teacher.  This is not her first audio book project, but I modestly think it will be the craziest & most exciting.

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So much going on I can't even keep up with it!  Fortunately, there's the new Bordertown Blog, where Terri & I are doing our best to post every review, interview, memoir, pensée & article as fast as they go up - so just head over here and start scrolling.....

Tomorrow, in NYC, is as close as we're coming to a Launch Party: it's at Books of Wonder at ( Read more... )

Stayed up as late as I could last night with Jim Freund & co. on the WBAI interview - and in the cab home, I listened to the conversation continue with that fabu TuneInRadio app that turns your iPhone into a radio!  I love the modern world sometimes.  It helps me be old-fashioned in new and exciting ways.

Caught almost enough sleep, then dragged ( Read more... )

 deliasherman  & I will be in Boston (well, Cambridge/Harvard Square) tomorrow, signing books*:

12:00 - 12:45 Signing at Harvard Book Store, side-by-side with Brandon Sanderson.

Then we pop in to Vericon** (will somebody pack me a sandwich??) for:
1:00  Reading
2:30 - 4:00 pm  Panel on  Collaborations in Writing with Brandon Sanderson & Holly Black.

Other guests ( Read more... )

deliasherman  & I will be popping in to Vericon* on Saturday, March 19th for 3 events:

12:00 - 12:45 Signing at Harvard Book Store**
1:00  Reading
2:30 - 4:00 pm  Panel on  Collaborations in Writing with Brandon Sanderson & Holly Black.

Other guests include Sarah Smith, Catherine Asaro & Austin Grossman.  Looking forward to seeing everyone!

*Vericon, a science- ( Read more... )

I'm honored to have been invited to be one of the Author Guests this summer at the Alpha Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Workshop for Young Writers (ages 14-19), located at the University of Pittsburgh.  It's a 10-day workshop, and I'll be there for two of those days,  workshopping and advising and whatnot.  Other Author Guests so far are ( Read more... )