I found out on Wednesday that The Iron Thorn had made it to the final selection list for the ALA’s Best Fiction for Young Adults 2012 list. Needless to say I was thrilled to be in the company of wonderful authors like Holly Black, Kendare Blake, Kiersten White, Maggie Stiefvater and so many more.

The full list is here-and I wholeheartedly recommend ( Read more... )

Congrats to the three winners! They are:

Anna Dase

Anna won the Unearthly Creatures prize pack-copies of both Iron Codex books plus Carrie Ryan’s complete zombie trilogy.

Liszi

Liszi won the Steampunk prize pack-copies of both Iron Codex books plus Cassandra Clare’s first two Infernal Devices novels.

Jennifer K

Jennifer won the Shadowy Secrets ( Read more... )

I finished the rough draft of the third Iron Codex novel, which means I’m done with the drafting stage for the entire trilogy. It’s a bit odd, since I conceived the idea for the books way back in 2009, and finished The Iron Thorn in January 2010. I always intended the Iron Codex to be three books. I will say I left the third volume a bit open-ended ( Read more... )

Part of my new accountability dealie…feel free to skip if, unlike me, you’re not a Type A Virgo and minutiae doesn’t interest you.

Last week:

• Mail ARCs of The Nightmare Garden  to all who requested
• Get to 70k words in the draft of Iron Codex 3
• Write an outline for Black London 6, which I’m calling Ghost Town
  
  

• Go over swag, promo and appearance ideas ( Read more... )

THE GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED! WINNER WILL BE POSTED THURSDAY, 1/19!

It’s that time again! Time for me to give away some books, and make three of you very happy!

That’s right, I have three prize packs, but since they’re not just my books, I’m going to make you work for them!

See, the Iron Codex books are a combination of a bunch of fantastic genres ( Read more... )

(Fun fact: the post title was taken from Tom Wait’s “A Little Drop of Poison”. Not that I want to poison any of you.)

There’s six weeks until my second YA novel, The Nightmare Garden, is out in the world.

When the first book, The Iron Thorn, dropped, I had high hopes. Huge hopes. Hopes so big they would break normal-sized sofas. Visions of sales ( Read more... )

I’m not gonna lie to you, Marge-2011 was not a banner year in a lot of ways. It wasn’t  as difficult for me as for many of my friends and fellow writers, but it didn’t leave me with the urge to jump around covered in glitter, either.

See, I’m not even doing my usual year-end roundup post. 2011 was that much of a bummer. BUT! I’m not going to focus ( Read more... )

I’ll be at Comikaze Expo in Los Angeles this weekend, mostly on Saturday, and I hope to see some of you there.

Where it is: The LA convention center, in Kentia Hall + meeting rooms (Park in the South Hall parking.)

Where I am:

• Signing sporadically at Table 38 in the artist’s alley area
• Doing a spotlight panel with Marie Lu at 5 pm on Saturday, in ( Read more... )

I have a couple of substantial entries I’ve been poking at, one about piracy and one about how e-books do not mean either THE END OF ALL THINGS or THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT AND I FEEL FINE.

But. I have two weeks of basically solid travel coming up, for a convention and a lit festival (see the sidebar if you want to come!) and so I’m just ( Read more... )

In exchange for missing my days this week, you get a short story, “Devil Dust”, which will be appearing in an anthology sometime next (?) year. I can’t announce the particulars yet, but I’m very happy with the short, and it’s something new for me-contemporary southern noir, with a zombie twist.

Continuing in that vein, and in honor of Halloween, ( Read more... )