Monday, October 12, 2009
North Platte, Nebraska

My day started with a 6:45 (am) wake-up call, and three more inches of snow on the ground. Packed up my bags and went down to the complimentary breakfast -- OJ, fruit, tea -- and met Margie, who covers the Panhandle Library System. Sally, Margie, and I loaded up the car and drove 47 miles south to ( Read more... )

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The Green Glass Sea has been selected as 2009's "One Book For Nebraska Kids," and tomorrow morning, I'm off on a week-long tour of the Cornhusker State, from Scottsbluff to North Platte, Lincoln to Omaha. I'll be visiting almost two dozen schools and libraries, and I'm going to try and post a trip log and pictures every night that I have web access ( Read more... )

Far-flung friends and fans --

Here's where I'm going to be in the next two months.

I'm going to be at Readercon (Burlington, MA -- just outside of Boston) July 9-12, doing panels and a reading and the like.

I'm going to be at WorldCon (Montreal) the first week in August, doing ditto.

I'm going to be in Columbus OH, the end of August, visiting my sister ( Read more... )

Hey All --

It's Good News Monday.

I just found out that my new novel -- White Sands, Red Menace -- has won the California Book Awards Gold Medal for YA Fiction.

If it weren't for my busted knees, I'd be jumping for joy. (I'm whistling and grinning a lot instead....)

--E

PS: More details as I know them, but the awards ceremony is at the Commonwealth Club ( Read more... )

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In these troubled economic times, every penny counts.


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So yesterday afternoon, I push the button on the microwave to heat up some soup,
and my back goes out. Out. As in, I cannot stand upright, I cannot walk, I cannot move.

I lay down on the floor, on an ice pack (because I have these things handy), and wondered how I was going to get up again,
since without the use of my knees, turning over was tricky to ( Read more... )

Almost three weeks ago, I slipped on rainy back steps and my feet went out from under me. I managed to land in a way that twisted both knees really, really do not like to be twisted. (Elise is fairly certain that I dislocated one kneecap for a bit...) madrobins  and elisem  were both here (we were watching the Oscars), and had me on ( Read more... )