The journey to fulfilling your dreams is often sprinkled with tiny, important moments. Here’s me, signing my contract with Candlewick under the fierce gaze of my statue of Buffy. The picture doesn’t quite capture the happiness and excitement in my heart, but trust me. It’s there. From 2010 Photobook
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Aug 12, 2010
|Above World, Writing
I’ve written three novels so far, and am about to embark on my fourth. This will be the book after ABOVE WORLD, a continuation of the story that I hope will some day be a trilogy. I’ve never written a sequel before, and I find the new challenge exhilarating and a wee bit terrifying. Some [...]
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Jul 2, 2010
|Above World, Life Stuff, Writing
Where am I? Where will I be for the next few weeks and possibly months? Right here, in Novel Revision Central: From 2010 Photobook The typical layout contains: laptop & stand, printer, lamp, bluetooth keyboard and mouse, manuscript (in three separate piles), moleskine, Uniball Signo pens in three colors (my new favorite everyday pen), mug [...]
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May 25, 2010
|Above World, News
I am heading off to Wiscon 34 in a few days. As usual, my only scheduled programming is a reading: MYTH, MAGIC, & MACHINES SUNDAY 2:30-3:45PM VILAS (Inn on the Park) Four writers of middle grade and YA read from their work, including scenes from two spring/summer releases and previews of future releases: Rae Carson’s [...]
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May 17, 2010
|Above World, Life Stuff
I was going through last year’s moleskine looking for some plot notes when I came across this little entry written after I’d first gotten some agent interest in ABOVE WORLD. It’s more of a stream-of-conscious thing, written during the first intermission of a Kings hockey game, when Chris was off getting us coffee and pretzels. [...]
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Apr 22, 2010
|Above World, News, Writing
I’m thrilled (and astounded, and most definitely flabbergasted) to announce that Above World and the next book in the series have sold to the wonderful Sarah Ketchersid at Candlewick!!! Yes, you read that correctly: Candlewick!!! Of course, this is all Joe‘s doing, and if we were playing D&D right now, I would totally let him [...]
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Jan 21, 2010
|Above World, Los Angeles
Trucks are frequently parked on my street. I think people use them as cheap storage solutions, because they’re often filled with furniture and clothes and only get moved one day a week for street cleaning. Anything left on the street that long is bound to get tagged, and after a few days, most of these [...]
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Nov 2, 2009
|Above World, Adventure, Life Stuff, Writing
October has always been my favorite month of the year: autumn, Halloween, hot chocolate, apple cider, sweaters, leaves changing, blazing fires in the fireplace, the promise of snow… what’s not to love? (Yes, I’m aware that almost none of my favorite October things actually occur in southern California. Thank goodness for sense memories, is all [...]
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Oct 8, 2009
|Above World, News, Writing
There have certainly been times when I thought I’d never get to write this post. Yet… here I am, writing this post. The world is mysterious and wonderful! But let me get to the heart of it: I’m thrilled to announce that I have an agent — I am now represented by Joe Monti of [...]
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Jul 22, 2009
|Above World, Writing
Above World, my work-in-progress, is the first project I’ve written using Scrivener. I absolutely loved it for keeping all my files together — all the web pages, photos, snippets, quotes, etc. Being able to keep a photo of a shark next to the chapter with a shark fight was invaluable! World-building in general was a [...]
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