Every year, I tell myself that I'll (somehow) get loads of writing done over the children's school holidays. This year, I tell myself, I'll definitely find a way!

And every year...

Well.

Hahaha.

Quite. We'll just leave it there, shall we? ;) (...says the woman who's managed a grand total of 430 words over the past 3 days...ah well ( Read more... )

Hooray! Editor (and writer!) Heather Shaw has just launched a fabulous new magazine, Persistent Visions, and the very first short story they're publishing is my funny werewolves-in-Pittsburgh story, "Pack Dynamics"! This is a Meet the Parents story gone wrong...with werewolves! It's set in a neighborhood where I used to live (Squirrel Hill, ( Read more... )

Wooot! My YA Victorian gothic fantasy novelette, House of Secrets, is out today!


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Last year, my New Year's resolution was: Write something different, to stretch yourself, just for fun!So when I asked Patrick for a story prompt and he said, "Secrets," I launched myself into a just-for-fun YA Victorian gothic fantasy novelette, full of eerie magic, mystery and brooding atmosphere...and just a touch of romance ( Read more... )

I am soooooo happy to finally be able to announce the big, secret news that I have been sitting on for the last couple of weeks:

My new MG novel, The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart, has found a home ( 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... )

Whew! I finished the first-pass revision of my dragons-and-chocolate MG novel last Friday and sent it off to a handful of brave volunteers for critique. I spent about four hours thinking that ooh, maybe I'd just take the rest of my older son's school holidays off...and then realized, no. I really can't stop myself from writing! So I started a new ( ( 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... )

So, my Christmas Eve started this morning when I woke up to see an email from my agent saying: "It's up!"

And he'd included this screenshot from Publisher's Marketplace:

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Since it's mid-November, now, writers all around the internet are putting together lists of their award-eligible stories published in 2014. In a similar vein, I thought it would be nice to do a sum-up here of all the stories of mine that were published this year, for my own sake (because it's a lovely reminder to me that yes, I really did get stuff ( Read more... )