FINDERS KEEPERS is now enrolled in the Amazon Prime and Kindle Unlimited program, meaning you can read the e-book for free if you have a Prime account. I'm flinching but the email I just got from my publisher says to tell you this ( Read more... )

Five minutes of painful awkwardness. The host apparently read the wrong name as winner. Crowning ensues, accompanied by tears, flowers, cheers, jubilant music. Then the host comes back and makes the correction. Crown is removed. I'm cringing.

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I have a guest post on Middle Grade Ninja, talking about how you can tell you have a plot rather than a series of events, and how that relates to calendar change panics like the end of the Mayan calendar or the events in Finders Keepers.

Inspired by the year's best lists that come out this time of year, here's a list of my ten favorite reads of 2015. I mostly stuck to new reads, though I did slip in one reread. Also I twice cheated a little by counting a series as one read.

There's a wide range of stuff here. Maybe you'll find something you like. They're in no particular order.

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Writing: I finished working through the first 6 chapters of editorial feedback on my YA book. Now I need to enter them in my file and let them sit for a bit until I can judge if they made the book better or just different (and possibly incomprehensible) (and stupid).

Reading: I finished the last Tana French book, which makes me sad because those ( Read more... )

Here's a nice review of Finders Keepers from Readers' Favorites ( Read more... )

One of my former grad students posted this of my FB timeline today:

Boy1 and I will be finishing FINDERS KEEPERS tonight at bedtime. We are currently on the edge of our seats. Thanks for a great couple of weeks!

:-)

LJ has stopped sending me notices. Is anyone else having this problem?

I've mentioned this before but here's the official announcement:

Loose Leaves Books has acquired the rights to my YA fantasy, tentatively titled DEEP AS A TOMB. It's scheduled for a 2016 publication. Here's the blurb I sent in the query:

Sixteen-year-old Myla feels the land in her blood and bones. Like everyone around her, she's tied to the ( Read more... )

I saw three movies last week, one even in the theater! On DVD, I saw Insurgent and Pitch Perfect 2. Insurgent was all right, but for some reason, I'm not attached to the characters. PP2 was funnier than I expected, so I did enjoy that ( Read more... )