Day Three post-vacation.  Slept past 4am last night and have worked my way down The Stuff You Have To Do (mail! wash! buy food!) to download pictures! so I can finally share.  This was our house in Provence.  It had a pool and badminton and one side was built right into a kind of cliff so some of the [...]

Book Briefs: an interview series where authors talk about…what else?  Books! Denise Jaden’s debut YA novel, Losing Faith, comes out from Simon & Schuster/Simon Pulse on September 7th.       What book are you reading right now?  The Iron King by Julie Kagawa – so, SO good! Your favorite children’s book:  Children’s including YA?  Way too hard to [...]

Tomorrow we leave for vacation, a week in Southern France and a few days in Paris.  So excited!  I’d hoped to be able to say that the draft for Book 3 was finished, but that didn’t quite happen.  It’s at 64,800 words with two scenes left to write which, truthfully, may be a better place to leave [...]

It’s that time again… Enter at The Tenners by commenting with a favorite book cover and why by Tuesday, August 17th at midnight.  Giveaway is open internationally to anyone 13 or older.  Good luck!

I’ve had my head buried in Book 3′s draft in the pipe-dream hope that it’ll be done before we leave for vacation on Friday.  In the interim, a few tenner releases have happened… The Freak Observer by Blythe Woolston: The narrative structure is not straight-forward and the book is rife with ambiguity. It is lacking [...]

I’m up to 53,300 words on the newest manuscript which translates to almost two-hundred pages or about 95% of the finished versions of The Mark and Vision.  This book is definitely not 95% done.  I’m not really sure how close it is, I’m just going to keep writing until the idea bin for it is empty.  That’s how first drafts go.  They’re my [...]

Well, that was fun, but I guess it’s good Amy Winehouse is already married (she is, isn’t she?)  The feet all got lots of dates which their owners are quite pleased about.  Of course, their owners all wrote in to say they’d date their own feet.  Which is just kind of…strange.  And the winner of the two books is… Juliana!  Congrats, Juliana!!! There’s [...]

Not a lot going on here.  The new book’s coming along (41,800 words), no new news on the other books, been taking the kids to the zoo, the beach, getting a new boiler today (hot water! after a week of cold showers!).  In other words, there’s not a lot to blog about and I’m too lazy to come [...]

Head over to the Tenners for this month’s giveaway of awesome, book-related stuff: To enter, comment on the Tenners’ post with where you’re going on vacation and what book you’re bringing.  The giveaway ends Monday, July 19th at midnight – good luck!

Happy belated release day to Anastasia Hopcus for her YA debut Shadow Hills, published yesterday by Egmont.  I read this on the Tenners’ ARC tour a few months ago – it’s got a great cast of characters and interesting paranormal mythology/science.  To celebrate the release, Anastasia is giving away a bunch of stuff, including signed books, swag and t-shirts – [...]