Here's the text of the reading I gave at BookExpo today. I was thrilled to have PLAIN KATE chosen as one of the five "buzz books" from the entire huge conference. (And I mean huge conference. You could launch this think into space as a second biosphere; it's that big. (Of course, we'd have to eat Javits center sushi and each other, and not ( Read more... )

New York, New York -- it's a wonderful town!  The fam and I are here for the rest of the week:  me to go to BookExpo and FINALLY meet my editor and my agent; they to see the sights while Scholastic picks up the hotel bill.

We made it here (see what I did there?) late last night, having driven in to Buffalo on Monday evening to catch a Tuesday ( Read more... )