I got caught in the rain on my way home from the post office. I swear the closer I got to home, the harder it poured. By the time I got back, I was sopping wet, and my socks were squishy inside my shoes and I was gushing water everywhere. My arm got really wet […]
I am a pop culture collectible!
Or at least my book is. It must be a pop culture collectible, since you can buy it on this pop culture collectibles site. You do not know how happy it makes me that you can buy Batman and Harry Potter merchandise in the same place you can buy my book (excluding Amazon, of course, […]
I wrote a book and other updates
I suppose since this is my blog and since finishing a book is a big deal, that maybe I should, you know, mention it on here. I *did* mention what I was doing after finishing–i.e. wandering aimlessly and having no purpose in life–but I haven’t talked *about* the book. Did I even mention I was […]
Le sigh – a.k.a. book aftermath
So, I finished the novel I was working on. The last three months blew by in a blur of frantic research and worry and pounding out word counts and now that it’s done I get to wake up for a while and be a real person who showers on a regular basis and changes her […]
100 Days and an Excerpt
Can you believe there are only 100 days left until The Rise of Renegade X comes out? It sounds like a lot, but then again, it’s only a little over three months, and when I first got the offer from Egmont, I had over 400 days to wait, so relatively speaking, 100’s not that much. […]
What, two posts in one day?!
Fellow Tenner Christina Diaz Gonzalez, brilliant author of The Red Umbrella and my release-date-sistah, has challenged me to post a list of ten things that make me happy. So here goes! Ten Things That Make Me Happy 1. Finishing a novel – I’ll admit I’ve got finishing on my mind as I’m mired down in […]
Time to dig out my mouse ears (yes, I have them)
Cross-posted from the Tenners LJ: Okay, so for the past couple weeks I’ve been talking about Sekrit Good News I couldn’t share, but now the wait is over. I tweeted the basics, but here’s the detailed version of the story. A couple weeks ago, before the holiday break, my phone rang. It was Hollywood calling, […]
New Year’s Post
So 2009 was a pretty good year. I got a good agent, sold a novel, and made tons of new friends. A year ago I wasn’t sure if The Rise of Renegade X would ever find a publisher, and since then I’ve held it in my hands as a real book. Crazy sauce! In the […]
Agent Appreciation Day!
It’s Agent Appreciation Day across the internet, and let me tell you, I sure appreciate my agent, Holly Root. You see, I used to have a not-so-good agent. One who didn’t talk to me and ignored my e-mails and couldn’t get the names of my books straight. I thought good, wonderful, OMG-perfect-for-me agents were for […]
Kittens! Inspired by… contests
If you’ve been following my crochet adventures over the last month (and you have, haven’t you?), you’ll know I was crocheting a bunch of kittens. Jen Nadol of the Tenners is hosting monthly giveaways for non-traditional swag for Tenner books. (The Debs did this for 2009, so if you’re familiar with that, that’s what this […]