Before selling The Mark, I imagined an editor would check for inconsistencies, typos and punctuation, have me make those changes, then send the book off to press.  I guess I’d never thought to look into what really happens or figured I’d just find out when and if the time came.  Of course, when it did, I learned that there’s [...]

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 Three (Touch) 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 [...]

I’ve been waiting for the Publishers Weekly announcement, but since it hasn’t posted yet and the news has already come out in several blog interviews and in chat the other night, I think it’s time to make it official:  Bloomsbury has purchased The Mark’s sequel – working title Vision – for publication in 2011.  I’m so excited [...]

The Online Launch Party continues!  Read the giveaway rules, prize list and enter here.    Almost any conversation about The Mark that I’ve had in person or online includes talk about the awesome cover.  So pretty, no?  Of course, I had absolutely nothing to do with it.  Danielle Delaney, who designed not one, but two beautiful covers for The Mark, graciously agreed to answer a [...]

The Online Launch Party continues!  Read the giveaway rules, prize list and enter here.  Caroline Abbey is my editor.  And she is amazing.  Smart, insightful, pleasant, responsive, professional and just downright nice.  I could go on and on, but this actually isn’t supposed to be a gush-session.  It’s an interview.  Caroline agreed to answer a bunch of [...]

On Friday, I finally met my awesome editor, Caroline Abbey.  It’s not unusual in publishing to work with someone for months and months, mostly by email or letter, occasionally phone, and never meet.  I still haven’t met my agent who is California-based.  Can’t imagine when I will. But, I was headed into NYC for dinner anyway so it was [...]