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Moving day
I've moved to Another Blog Site. I hope you'll follow me there, for info on my newest book, coming from Margaret K. McElderry Books in 2012. -
Irish connections and good news
I shall enjoy getting used to saying it: "I'm a McElderry author."
Margaret K. McElderry Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, is going to publish my midgrade fantasy novel. The one I struggled to finish. And I can get used to saying this too: "My editor is the lovely Karen Wojtyla."
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Poetic pottery
I love to collect ceramics, and here are two of my favorites, because they're literary:
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Hidden New York, and other stuff
Some people go to New York City for the shows. Some go for the museums.
The next time I go to New York, I'm going here.
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The new gadget reveals...a reader
Ring the bells, sing a song, jump for joy, all you lovers of the civilized mind: The long-form fictional format (e.g. the novel) is alive and well.
And residing in an iPhone.
My older son, the gadget-lover and recent college graduate (go Red Foxes!) got his iPhone 4 the other day. A cool gadget in lots of ways, but by Day 3 what was the app Tom liked ( Read more... ) -
The semicolon explained
It's all here in black and, er...fur?
Check out the link below for a quick, useful, and adorable guide to "the most feared punctuation on earth."
(And get some insider info on rats in the process.)
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Fear of finishing
I've read 3/4 of The Tale of Desperaux twice now. I still don't know how it ends. I don't want that book to end. (Yes, I'm in denial.)
This happens all the time with books I really love (though eventually I finish them, with the above exception). It's a bad habit of mine, and now I realize I do the same thing when I'm writing.
I'm 3/4 of the way into ( Read more... )
