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Deadlines, Tie-in Stories, and Two Workshops
It's been Quite A Week over here in Wales. It started with a beautiful, sunny UK Mother's Day last Sunday, which was wonderful, but then both of my kids caught a stomach bug over the last few days, so...yeah. I'll leave the gruesome details from this latter half of the week to your imagination ( Read more... ) -
Butterflies, Cats, Ice Giants and Temptation
I think my favorite discovery of my adult life has been butterfly houses. Back when Patrick and I lived in Vienna for 6 months in 2002, we had VERY little money, but we loved visiting the Imperial Butterfly House at the Hofburg Palace - we went there for my 25th birthday and again any time we could justify it, because it was so lovely to walk ( Read more... ) -
Talking About Dragons
I had really big news last week: I got my first-ever starred review, and it came from Kirkus Reviews, for The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart! Woooot! I am so happy about this. Kirkus called it "A gloriously fresh story to be read with a steaming cup of chocolate at hand" - and you can read the full review hereThere was a LOT of happy-dancing in our ( Read more... ) -
Charging Up with Joy
Every time I do an event for kids, I'm reminded of why I want to keep writing kids' books forever. Last Wednesday, I got on the train to Oswestry, a lovely town just across the border into England, where I got to hang out in my hotel with fab authors Sibéal Pounder and Andy Griffiths, along with our wonderful publicists (Lizz from Bloomsbury for me ( Read more... ) -
Bad News, Good News, Chocolatey Goodness and a Giveaway
Whew. Over the last two weeks, every single person in our house (including visiting relatives!) has been knocked down one by one, like dominoes, by a nasty feverish cold. I was the last one, and I'm finally getting to the end of it now (albeit with a veeery croaky voice - I REALLY hope that's all better by the time I talk to 500 students in ( Read more... ) -
Amazing News and a Thank-You Gift
This week started with amazing news: The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart is already going into a second printing, less than a week after its UK publication!
You guys are wonderfulThank you SO MUCH to everyone who's already bought this book, reviewed this book, checked it out from a library or spread the word about it. I appreciate you all SO MUCH! ( ( Read more... ) -
Dragon Unleashed!
Hooray! The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart is out TODAY in the U.K.
(But whoops, that all got a lot more rhyme-y than I'd intended. Sorry! I'm a little bit giddy right now, as you can probably tell. But the book itself doesn't rhyme, I promise! ;) It's not that sort of book at all, as you can tell if you read the first chapterIt all started late ( Read more... ) -
Guest Blog: E.C. Ambrose on Medieval Magic and Medicine
You guys know I love historical fantasy - so today I'm hosting author E.C. Ambrose, whose latest medieval fantasy novel, Elisha Mancer, was published by DAW Books today!
Here she is:
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Cats and Dragons
It's been a tough couple of weeks, between my horror at so much of the recent political news (in both the US and the UK) and my personal grief over losing our sweet old dog, Maya. We will never, ever forget her ( Read more... ) -
All of Our Families
I am so horrified by the news, it's hard to be coherent or articulate ( Read more... )
