Gaiman gives great Who
Dr. Who, that is. Last night’s episode of the long-running BBC series, Dr. Who, was simply brilliant. Why? Always look to the writing. Neil Gaiman, creator of Sandman, author of Coraline, and The Graveyard Book, and many more delights, wrote the episode. I had the pleasure of meeting him aRead More →
Every writer — especially female — should read this comic now!
http://xkcd.com/896/ Read More →
Lakers, unchain my heart
For a while I thought my writing career was magically linked to the Lakers’ basketball trajectory. If they were winning, then I was winning. The night after the Easter/Passover weekend, I got the call that STARTERS had sold to a pre-emptive bidder. The Lakers were on the TV in theRead More →
The sweetest post in Publishers Marketplace (at least to me)
And then Publishers Marketplace announced the deal: May 9, 2011 Children’s: Young Adult Screenwriter Lissa Price’s STARTERS, the first in a futuristic thriller series featuring a society where youth is coveted at an impossible price, and one girls’ ability to bring it all crumbling down, to Wendy Loggia at Delacorte,Read More →
It’s real!
At the Publishers Weekly website, 5/9/2011: Brief In a sizable two-book pre-empt, Wendy Loggia at Delacorte bought a futuristic YA thriller series by newcomer Lissa Price called Starters. Barbara Poelle at Irene Goodman brokered the North American rights deal and said the series is set in a dangerously youth-obsessed societyRead More →
Welcome
I’m happy to see you here at my new website. I’m a debut author drawn to fantasy and science fiction. My first books, a YA futuristic thriller series, STARTERS, will be announced by the publisher any day now. Besides writing YA, I’m mad about kayaking and snorkeling, and any travelRead More →