History Has Its Eyes on You (and so does Cricket!)

Hello loveliest of readers! We have a really important election coming up in less than a month (less than a month! November 6th!) and oodles of voter registration deadlines are RIGHT NOW, like, today!  Are you registered to vote?  If you’re not old enough, are your parents registered to vote?  How about your older brothers and sisters?  Is everyone you . . .

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A New Continent of Dragons Awaits!

Hello lovely wonderful readers! We are only THREE WEEKS AWAY from the release of Book Eleven!  I am so excited and so in love with this cover!  (If the number of words in these blogs was proportional to how much I adore Joy Ang, it would be ALL JOY ALL THE TIME.  She is beyond amazing!  Look how beautiful Blue . . .

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#KidlitWomen: My Sons’ Library

  We’re celebrating Women’s History month with 31 days of posts focused on improving the climate for social and gender equality in the children’s and teens’ literature community. Join in the conversation on Facebook or Twitter #kidlitwomen (Image by Grace Lin) Hi everyone! Apologies in advance for the kind of long, sort of personal post—I’ve been thinking a lot about this! . . .

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Books for Light and Hope

Hello lovely everyone, Like many people, I am finding the news (and the world) a little overwhelming right now, so I thought I’d just stop by to recommend a bunch of books, many of them brand new.  I find that reading gets me through all kinds of worries and stress, so I hope that sharing these will help do the same . . .

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Hooray for the Wings of Fire Graphic Novel!

Hello all my favorite readers! I cannot believe I have neglected this blog for so very long — I’m sorry!  Apparently fall is not my most productive blogging time. ?  But the good news is: Book Eleven is done and really coming to you this year!  The cover is so so pretty and it even has a title now…I’ll see if . . .

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DARKNESS OF DRAGONS is here!

Hiiiiiii everyone! That’s right — Wings of Fire Book Ten: Darkness of Dragons is now out in the world! I wrote all about it here for the Scholastic Wings of Fire forums — and as you’ll see there, I also got to make a really exciting announcement: This is not the end of Wings of Fire! There are FIVE MORE . . .

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A Book Club, Marvelous Articles, Awesome Mugs, and Snuggly Things

Hi everyone! Have you ever wanted to be in a book club with me?  Well, here’s your chance!  I’m hosting a Newtonville Books Celebrity Bookclub (I know, that’s me! I’m the celebrity! isn’t that wild? Dancing with the Stars, here I come!) 😉 on Saturday, April 29, at 2pm and I would love for you to join me if you . . .

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Boskone Schedule and Hugs for Everyone

Hello all! The news kind of makes me want to go back into my cave right now, but instead I will actually be out and about a bit this month, and I wanted to let you all know about a couple of events in particular, which I hope you’ll come join me for! Boskone is New England’s longest-running science fiction . . .

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Book Nine Is Here! Happy New Year!

Hello lovely readers! I know, can you believe it?  A BLOG!  After all these months!  I just apparently abandoned the rest of 2016 — to be honest, I was finding the Internet/the news/reality a little stressful (like…everyone? I think?).  So I have been focused on deadlines and dragons (and my two little bears, who make even reality seem pretty wonderful) . . .

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A Seer, An Animus, and the Most Powerful Dragon in Pyrrhia Walk Into a Book . . .

Hi everyone!! It’s here, it’s here!  DARKSTALKER Day has arrived!  Shiny new crazy book alert!  Yaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!! Travel back in time, two thousand years into Pyrrhia’s history, to find out what really happened when an IceWing prince met a dazzling NightWing . . . when their dragonet hatched with more power than any dragon had ever had before . . . when . . .

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