First, to all my lovely readers in the UK who have finished reading Knife and Rebel and are now e-mailing me to ask when Arrow will be published and whether I can make it happen any sooner -- I am afraid that January 2011 is the very soonest the book can possibly come out, because I have still not finished writing it yet! But I am working on the ( Read more... )

For any of my fellow authors and publishing folk interested in attending the free BookCamp Toronto unconference on June 6th, you might want to register ASAP (you can always un-register later if need be) because they're having to cap registration at 150 members due to space limitations ( Read more... )

Here's something for my fellow authors and other bookish folk: BookCamp Toronto, a proposed unconference (meaning it's free, no-frills, and anyone can get involved) dealing with the future of books, writing, publishing, and the book business in the digital age. It's being held in a state-of-the-art facility in downtown Toronto, and so far the ( Read more... )

Looks like Book Expo Canada is no more, and that the proposed fall event in Toronto aimed at the general book-buying public is also a no-go ( Read more... )

First, a little random Threadless love:

lizbee, I found you a new shirt.

Also, am I the only one who thinks this design is very New Who S1-ish? If the Eccleston-era fen aren't all over it yet, they should be.

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And now, the report I promised on my trip to New York City a couple of weekends ago.

Erm... it was good?

( More details, including flying frogs, the Queen of Narnia, and Claudia Gray )

I've signed up for the SCBWI Winter Conference in New York! I've even booked a hotel room at the conference location, double occupancy, for the Friday and Saturday night.

Now I'm wondering, how many of the good people on my f-list are planning to go, or at least seriously considering it? And does anybody want to go halves with me on the room?

I'm back from the SCBWI-MI Fall Conference and it was so. much. fun. Simon Rose is hilarious ("What was I talking about again?"). halseanderson is a total sweetheart (she hugged me! Twice!) and a fantastic inspirational speaker (although her "Guaranteed Formula for Writing Success" ratio of 1 hour of Internet/TV time to every 5 hours of reading time and 10 ( Read more... )

I'm off to SCBWI-MI for the weekend, to listen to halseanderson speak (ha ha!*) and hang out with fellow children's lit crazies. Have a good one, everybody! And I'll try to write up a full report when I get back.

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* A little joke for my fellow YA geeks.

I attended SCBWI-Michigan's Fall Conference last year and loved it. The location (Gull Lake, near Kalamazoo) was gorgeous, it was worth every penny of the registration fee and every minute of the five-hour drive, and now that the information for this year's conference is up I can't wait to go again. Even though I'm no longer searching for an agent ( Read more... )

After spending six and a half hours on the road Saturday, I have a new rule of thumb when it comes to writing conferences: if the time it takes to drive there and back is equal to or longer than the time you will spend at the actual conference, don't bother ( Read more... )