After a brief glitch getting to the store – separated from me by Fifth Avenue and, yesterday, the enormous and hugely celebratory Pride Parade – I was at Books of Wonder for our Fantastic Fiction for Teens event.  Sadly, I don’t actually have many photos…I was too busy listening to the other authors read bits of their books which [...]

I’ll be reading and signing at Books of Wonder in NYC on Sunday, June 26.  1-3pm.   The event is Fantastic Fiction for Teens and authors Leah Cypess, Caragh O’Brien, Caitlin Kittredge, Kate Milford and Carmen Ferreiro-Esteban will be there too.  I’ve heard great things about BoW events and am really looking forward to participating in one.  If you’re in the [...]

So much more exciting than any other kind, no?  And there were plenty to pick from at Friday’s Won’t You Be My Paranormal Valentine? event at The Voracious Reader: Pan, Faust, vampires, talking polar bears, talking gargoyles, the girl who knows if you’ll die today and werewolves.   Lots of werewolves.  Here we all are, with the [...]

Everyone in the Northeast is complaining about the weather so I’ll keep it brief and just say my kids haven’t had a full week of school all month.  Since I write when they’re in class, not much is getting done at Chez Nadol these days.  Next Friday, February 11, I’ll be at The Voracious Reader in Larchmont, NY with Cynthia Leitich-Smith, Daniel Nayeri, [...]

On Saturday, I got to meet readers, YA authors and some pretty impressive aspiring writers at Barnes & Noble, Nanuet NY for the Teen Author Event put together by Shari Maurer.  Twenty-five teens entered the writing contest.  I read all of the entries and was honestly shocked at how good they were.  I don’t remember being able to write like that [...]

The Online Launch Party continues!  Read the giveaway rules, prize list and enter here.  If you’ve read the blog before, you might know I’ve been tossing around the idea of an online reading, even gave it a test run a while back.  But it was really boring and I couldn’t figure out how to upload or whatever and was going [...]