Alas, yesterday's hot chocolate experiment was such a disaster, I'm not even going to report the fine details here (except to say: TEN CARDAMOM PODS IS DEFINITELY TOO MUCH)! On the upside, though, my 8-year-old has volunteered to join with me in the experimentation process, making his own search for a new favorite hot chocolate recipe - and I have ( Read more... )

Many years ago, Patrick and I put together a website called "December Lights" and published one story a day all through the month of December. Each story was donated by a different fabulous author, and each had just one thing in common: every story had a happy ending.

We need lights in the darkness in December - even in years that aren't like this ( Read more... )

I spent the last week finishing up another round of revisions for my new MG novel, which I got through just in time - because my editorial letter for Masks and Shadows has arrived! This book is becoming so real. I've spent today re-immersing myself in the characters and the story, and oh...it feels kind of scary to admit just how much I love this ( Read more... )

Wooot - my (very) short story "Marking Time" was just published at Daily Science Fiction! This one is aimed at adults, and it's about regrets, choices, the unexpected ways that our lives sometimes turn out, and what would happen with the possibility of real magic.

I really hope that you guys will like it! You can read it for free online, and if ( Read more... )

A few years ago, Patrick and I set up a website and invited a whole bunch of other authors to join in with our December Lights Project, where every story had a happy ending, many of them were funny, and all of them were intended to light up the darkness. This year, to be honest, I was just way too tired to try to organize all of that...but between ( Read more... )

Happy Friday! I've just uploaded one more chapter of Courting Magic to my website, so you can now read both of the first two chapters free online(I actually meant to do this almost a week ago. Oops. The downside of publishing a book while on family vacation ( Read more... )

Woooot! My short story "The Wrong Foot" was published in Daily Science Fiction today - so you can read it free online! (And I love the art they commissioned to go with it. That was a wonderful surprise!)

It's a frothy, romantic comedy of manners (based on a skewed version of Cinderella), and it begins:

Needless to say, I didn't want to try on the ( Read more... )

My short story "Dancing in the Dark" was published today at Daily Science Fiction, where it's free to read online ( Read more... )

First of all, my very best news, which I just got this morning: the Kat short story that I talked about in my last entry has been accepted by the Very Cool Magazine I referred to - so in other words, it'll be published in Puffin Post in November! I am really happy about this. :)

Of course, Puffin Post is a UK magazine, so I know that not all of ( Read more... )

Remember how I talked about Welsh Augusts being misty and cold? Apparently, the weather gods over here took that as a challenge. It's been gorgeous, hot and sunny in the past few days, and while I'm shocked, I'm very, very pleased by the unexpected gift. So, it felt like just the right time to give something away in return ( Read more... )