I found out today that Evolution, Me and Other Freaks of Nature was chosen by the ALA and YALSA as one of the Best Books for Young Adults for 2008! Hurray! And the audio version is one of the 2008 Selected Audiobooks for Young Adults! Double hurray!
Thank you, American Library Association and [...]
[UPDATE: Thanks to Heather and Patrick, I've decided to make this post about you, not just about Lost. Check out your challenge below:]
In my continuing effort to wait patiently for Lost to begin again (January 31!! Two-hour opener! SWEET!), I came across this. Please click on the 8-minute recap.
It [...]
Been a little busy writing my own book, so this is the first book I’ve managed to read this year. But it’s a doozy: Walking the Gobithe latest true-adventure memoir by my heroine Helen Thayer. Thirteen years ago, when she was 50, she was the first woman to travel solo, on foot, [...]
Poor Adrienne. I hear ya, sistah. What’s really going to suck HARD is if somehow my precious Lost is affected. It’s already been outrageously delayed since ending last spring, but if I can’t start having my fix again in February, as promised–
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. Meanwhile I console myself with this.
I don’t know if [...]
Nice thing I did for myself this week? After months of steady work, weeks of sitting at this computer more hours than I can say, and this last week in particular thinking and dreaming of only these characters and this story to the point where I was constantly talking to myself, running through their [...]
Sorry, haven’t finished reading a book this week–too busy writing one. It’s due next Monday! And I’ll be ready! I know I’m in the home stretch now, even though I don’t know exactly how or when the story will end. But that’s the joy of not plotting my books ahead of [...]
Hey, y’all, I’m part of an auction going on to benefit the great non-profit group Kids Need to Read, the charity project founded by author PJ Haarsma (The Softwire series) and actor Nathan Fillion (a.k.a. Hot Nathan Fillion, of Waitress, Firefly, Serenity, and now Desperate Housewives). Money raised through these auctions is used to [...]
Happy First Friday of a fresh new year!
I’m just writing my book here, having a really good time with it, and that’s the nicest thing I can be doing for myself right now.
What about you guys? How have you started out the new year? What first-week precedent are you [...]
So I wouldn’t cry uncontrollably as I tried to clean my office yesterday (actually, it wasn’t that bad–huge progress in only an hour), I decided to distract myself with some NPR interviews. I came across this one from New Year’s Day, which was perfect–funny, interesting, distracting.
If you don’t have time to listen to the [...]
Just so you know, it always hurts to have to choose. I wish I could treat you all. For now, though, it’s just these four:
Alyssa A.!
Jessica S.!
Rita A.!
Kathy B.!
Congratulations! Your chocolate is on its way!
And as for the rest of you, new month, new year–new chance to win chocolate! Go ahead [...]