This week over at merry_fates the awesome sisters dished out a picture prompt based on The Princess And The Pea by Edmund Dulac and invited people to submit any form of creative work that involves words.

This is my entry.


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Happy release day to Tara Kelly whose debut novel Harmonic Feedback comes out in stores today!  Congrats, Tara!

I first met Tara in an online chat room.  I found her to be funny and witty and brutally honest.  When I read snippets of her novel on her website, she blew me away with her voice and her quirky characters.


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Thank you to everyone who took the time to read Cindy Pon's interview and to enter the SILVER PHOENIX giveaway. Without further ado, the winner of a spanking new copy of SILVER PHOENIX is gowiththeflo777Yay! Congrats, girl. I'll be sending you an email for your shipping information and you'll have 48 hours to respond before I choose another winner. I hope you ( Read more... )

It's no secret that I am a big fan of Maggie Stiefvater. To me, she's like the James Cameron of the writing world. Not only does she write beautiful books, she also plays a million musical instruments, creates gorgeous art, writes music and is quite the budding film maker, judging from the homemade book trailers she's produced so far ( Read more... )

I'm so excited to have Cindy Pon, author of Silver Phoenix (see my thoughts on the book here) on my LJ for an interview!  Personally, Cindy is something of a role model to me because of her tenacity.  I love the story of how she queried over 100 agents just to snag her current agent, the fabulous Bill Contardi. (He was agent #79, I believe)  We ( Read more... )

This week over at Merry Sisters Of Fate, Tessa Gratton, Maggie Stiefvater and Brenna Yovanoff invited readers to post their favorite Merry Fates short story.  I don’t need much encouragement to rustle up a post like this since I am in hard love with their writing.  The only dilemma I’ll have is narrowing down a favorite.

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