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Great Night, Great News, and a New E-Book!
The event at Schuler Books last night went so well - hooray! It was wonderful to get to hang out with Jim and Merrie and Patrick, listen to their (wonderful) readings and chat about our books - and it was also really wonderful to see all the people who had come for the talk! I so appreciated how many people came for the event (even one all the way ( Read more... ) -
Sadness, Ghostbusting, Secrets and Giveaways
One of my very least favorite feelings in the world is saying goodbye to either of my brothers, and in the last 24 hours, I've had to say goodbye (for now) to both of them. Wahh! Luckily, my brother Ben is coming back into town next week with my wonderful sister-in-law, so I'm already looking forward to seeing him again soon, but it'll be at least ( Read more... ) -
Edits, Geek Feminism, and Good News
Whew! I've been doing intense line-edits for one book or another ever since I got to America (first the Americanization edits for The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart and then the copyedits for Congress of Secrets), and now it's time to dive into my first big rewrites for my MG spies-and-fairies novel (tentatively titled The Storyteller's Secret). ( Read more... ) -
Library Love, Copyedits, and Events
Hooray! We're in America for the summer. I love living in Wales, but there's nothing like the feeling of coming back to my childhood home. Total comfort!
It's a working vacation for me, though. I just finished up the Americanization line edits (and last minute typo-catches!) for The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart on Sunday, and now I'm deep in ( Read more... ) -
Dinosaur Movies, Packing Lists, and a Piece of Kat News
So here we are at the end of the school year...a bit early, since my poor seven-year-old has a sick day on what should have been his last day of school! Oh well. We're cuddling up and watching dinosaur movies while we eat leftover apple cake from the birthday party this weekend. No complaints here ( Read more... ) -
Congress Cover
You can find the Congress of Secrets cover here, in its exclusive reveal at USA Today's Happy Ever After blog.
What do you think? Personally, I love it. It was designed by Nicole Lecht, who also designed the Masks and Shadows cover, and I think she's wonderful. She's really captured the tone of both of my adult books ( Read more... ) -
Links to Help, and Personal News
This week, in the world.
This week.
I keep searching for ways to help.
There's a GoFundMe campaign for Philandro Castile's family.
There's also one for Alton Sterling's familyDoes anyone know if one has been set up yet for the families of the police officers in Dallas? If that happens (or if it's already happened and someone points me toward it ( Read more... ) -
Comfort Reads in Hard Times
This morning when my agent phoned, she asked, "How are you? I mean, apart from the world being miserable, of course." And of course that is how it's felt lately. Orlando, Jo Cox, Brexit, Istanbul ( Read more... ) -
Finding Personal Bright Spots
Yesterday was a very, very bad day for me, along with many other people in the UK, and you can read yesterday's post on Facebook if you want to know more about how that felt ( Read more... )
