YA Scavenger Hunt, Fall 2013 – Win!
The contest is over! Winners will be announced soon. Thank you all for playing. Welcome to the YA Scavenger Hunt! You can read exclusive content from YA authors and also win big prizes. Add up the numbers, and maybe you’ll win one signed book from each author in my team.Read More →
Starters on Bestseller List – Philippines
I wouldn’t have known about this except I saw Margaret Stohl’s tumblr post about ICONS (congrats!) on the Philippine YA bestseller list in the picture below. And there was Starters peeking out at #7. Guessing that is August below, Sept is above. Thank you, Philippines!Read More →
Signing with Kami Garcia at her Launch Party in San Diego for UNBREAKABLE!
If you are in the San Diego area, you’re going to want to meet Kami Garcia and come party with us and authors extraordinare Nancy Holder and Amber Benson. This is Kami’s first solo book after the long-running Caster Chronicles series, otherwise known as Beautiful Creatures. Kami was generous enoughRead More →
Boston Area Appearance
The staff of the Milton Library I will be in the Boston area speaking and signing at the Milton Public Library from 7 p.m. – 8 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 9, in the Keys Auditorium. I’ll show a presentation of images from the European tour and other fun things aboutRead More →
Heading to Nova Scotia
I will be at the Chapters in Halifax next Saturday, Aug 17 at 2pm to sign books and talk to readers. Then on Thursday, Aug 22, I’ll be at the Coles in Sydney at 7pm. Details are on my Events page, at the top right. Please tell your friends, IRead More →
Starters Back on the SCIBA Bestseller List
This is the Southern Calif Independent Booksellers Bestseller List for the week the new Starters paperback came out. Starters was on it when it first debuted in hardcover for three weeks, then came back on once or twice. This was an unexpected surprise and I want to thank everyone forRead More →
The ABC of it
I saw a huge exhibition of children’s books at the NY Public Library. I went with the parents of a good friend. His mom used to be a children’s librarian and now she’s going for her doctorate in children’s lit. We were both in heaven. The original animals that inspiredRead More →
Summer of YA Event or How Did I Like Speed Dating?
Author SPEED dating event at B&N Americana! Andrew Smith (WINGER), me, Allen Zadoff (BOY NOBODY) – See links below to their sites. These are both incredible writers. I love the group that invited me, they do good work getting books in schools. These are the wonderful authors who participated inRead More →
Winners!
Two contests ended. I was going to give three prizes, but I upped it to five. Here are the winners: From Twitter: jennadoesbooks PolishedPage (Katie) EW.com: Michelle Beigh Ensconced in YA Tumblr: peach and blue2 If you didn’t win, don’t give up as I sometimes go back and pick moreRead More →
Comic-Con 2013
Me with the talented Kami Garcia The entire When Grrls Fall in Love YA panel: Moderator Sherri Smith, Veronica Wolff, me, Marissa Meyer, Holly Black, Veronica Roth and Ally Condie. Cassandra Clare was to be on the panel but had a family emergency and did not attend Comic-Con. This doesn’tRead More →